Is it NMRA Standards or Reccommended Practices? I had a similar grouse with the Life Like Simplex bolster trucks and was firmly but kindly reminded of the distinction on this forum.
Sharing your pain, Pierre Oliver
Brian, I've had similar problems when changing trucks on Atlas
cars.
It's a major project. A better question is, why doesn't Atlas conform to NMRA standards with regard to bolster height and truck mounting dimensions. Granted, the NMRA standards committee is now little more than a bad joke, but those standards have existed for
a
long time and are still followed (more or less, at least) by
almost
all other manufacturers. Atlas appears to be thumbing their collective noses at those of us who aren't content to just pop the model out of the box and put it on the track, regardless of
