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Re: model car weight

Mark
 

Good one!!! Actually the idea from another manufacturer(branchline)!
Hardware store in Bellville,Ohio is where the 3/4 inch ones, coarse thread steel.
Well at work so better get going.

Mark Morgan
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--- In STMFC@..., bnonut@... wrote:

One party, NMRA member, told us the original weight requirements were put in place for the early trucks. Guy models the B&O in the fifties. He had quite a few articles in Railroad Model Journal.
I usually use two large nuts per boxcar. Leave one truck loose and keep the other tighter.
Prefer the semiscale wheels and sergent couplers.

Mark Morgan
Mark,

Do you use walnuts or pecans?

Ray
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