On Jan 20, 2006, at 1:16 PM, al_brown03 wrote:

There are also cast-metal Dalmans available from *Bethlehem* Car
Works, in their "Kitbits" line. I *think* these are the old Red Ball
trucks formerly available from Cape Line. BCW assemble them with
screws, instead of soldering them together as previous makers did.
They're recognizable Dalmans, and the screw assembly makes it easy to
paint the side frames or change out the wheel sets; but put it this
way, I'm curious to see the new trucks.

The spring arrangement is certainly Dalman, but otherwise the side
frame configuration of these ex-Red Ball trucks is, well, weird. I
don't doubt that there was a prototype for them somewhere, as M. Dale
Newton wasn't given to inventing things, but if so I've never found
even one prototype photo or drawing that shows it. So these trucks
are, for all practical purposes, useless.

Richard Hendrickson