HO Freight Car Truck Axle Lengths
Having exhausted my HO freight car trucks with metal wheels, I now have a need to purchase replacement wheel sets.
Trucks in my spares box requiring metal axles and wheels are as follows:
Accurail 100
Athearn 90400
C&BT Shops equivalent to Walthers 1001/1012
Intermountain pre-war A3
Roundhouse 2923
Train-Miniature/Walthers 1001/1012.
I realise that the situation is more difficult with the demise of Reboxx but any suggestions of a source for both code 88 and 110 wheels would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks.
Regards,
Glen Mills
On Jul 5, 2021, at 10:14 PM, Vera Mills <gleng20.mills@...> wrote:
Hello,
Having exhausted my HO freight car trucks with metal wheels, I now have a need to purchase replacement wheel sets.
Trucks in my spares box requiring metal axles and wheels are as follows:
Accurail 100
Athearn 90400
C&BT Shops equivalent to Walthers 1001/1012
Intermountain pre-war A3
Roundhouse 2923
Train-Miniature/Walthers 1001/1012.
I realise that the situation is more difficult with the demise of Reboxx but any suggestions of a source for both code 88 and 110 wheels would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks.
Regards,
Glen Mills
Glen, about the time REBOXX faded from the model railroad supply chain, I decided to quit using a lot of the various factory supplied trucks, unless they were really specific to that car (such as the PRR trucks on Bowser cars) This included a lot of the sprung trucks I originally wanted to change over to code 88 tread widths. With the help of the members on this forum, I was converted to the idea that the sprung sideframe feature was not all that helpful and in fact became a real annoyance when one or more of the springs went missing somehow.
I now standardize on Accurail and Tahoe Model Works trucks for nearly everything, with the few appropriate trucks that aren’t available from those manufacturers being supplied by Bowser, Kadee HGV and a few select others. Having said that, I tend to leave the trucks on Rapido, Tangent and some Exact Rail models alone as they are generally of very high quality and readily accept semi-scale wheelsets from Intermountain and Tangent Scale models. While many Atlas trucks are highly detailed, they are the most problematic in obtaining semi-scale wheelsets for as the factory supplied axles are considerably shorter than anyone else’s on the market. As a result, many of them get replaced with one of the other manufacturer’s trucks mentioned previously. The same is true of Kato trucks.
Mark Rossiter
Dennis Storzek
Accurail, Inc.
From: Dennis Storzek <destorzek@...>
To: main@RealSTMFC.groups.io
Sent: Tue, Jul 6, 2021 7:24 pm
Subject: Re: [RealSTMFC] HO Freight Car Truck Axle Lengths
Dennis Storzek
Accurail, Inc.
Moloco notes the axle length is 1.005" on their Code 88 semi-scale wheelsets.
Eric Hansmann
Murfreesboro, TN
Sent: Wednesday, July 7, 2021 10:34 AM
To: main@RealSTMFC.groups.io
Subject: Re: [RealSTMFC] HO Freight Car Truck Axle Lengths
I just fitted 3 sets of new Moloco .088 wheels to 3 pair of Tichy Andrews trucks and they went in with no problem and are free rolling.
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Ken Adams
Still in splendid Shelter In Place solitude, about half way up Walnut Creek
Owner PlasticFreightCarBuilders@groups.io