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Post by cera2254 on Jan 18, 2024 6:45:11 GMT -8
I have a couple of Kadee 50’ PS1 boxcars, and I really dislike the spring trucks that come with these. Has anyone had good luck with a drop in replacement truck without redrilling or filing the bolster?
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Post by locochris on Jan 18, 2024 6:59:49 GMT -8
I have a couple of Kadee 50’ PS1 boxcars, and I really dislike the spring trucks that come with these. Has anyone had good luck with a drop in replacement truck without redrilling or filing the bolster? I think I've used both Tangent and Moloco trucks without doing any modifications. |
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Post by Colin 't Hart on Jan 18, 2024 7:01:08 GMT -8
Kadee makes cast trucks now. Look for the ones which are labelled HGC -- high gravity compound. These are a drop-in fit for the original Kadee sprung trucks.
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Post by wagnersteve on Jan 18, 2024 7:01:36 GMT -8
1/18/2024, starting 9:56 a.m., EST
cera2254, do the Kadee boxcars you have come with trucks having actual metal springs? If so, those were produced some years ago. More recently Kadee has used "HGC" trucks on their assembled cars; those have simulated springs that I and at least some others think look more realistic. Those should fit on the bolsters on your cars without trouble. Sooner or later I hope to substitute the newer trucks for my older Kadee trucks with the metal springs. My trackwork is not perfect, and I'm content to use the RP25 standard wheelsets with the traditional tread width. Others on this forum prefer more realistic narrower tread width.
(I hadn't seen the first two replies to your email which were posted shortly before I posted mine.)
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Post by locochris on Jan 18, 2024 7:16:26 GMT -8
If you don't want to use the Kadee wheelsets I recommend not using the newer Kadee trucks, as other wheelsets don't fit them well.
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Post by cera2254 on Jan 18, 2024 9:26:38 GMT -8
If you don't want to use the Kadee wheelsets I recommend not using the newer Kadee trucks, as other wheelsets don't fit them well. Yeah for sure, I should have added that in there, I’m just not a huge fan of the kadee wheels either. I’ll look into some tangent trucks. Thanks |
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Post by rockisland652 on Jan 18, 2024 11:41:00 GMT -8
Tangent trucks are the best. Swap them out for a pair.
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Post by hudsonyard on Jan 18, 2024 21:37:06 GMT -8
A guy whose layout I ran on a few times years back was insistent on putting sprung kadee trucks on ALL of his cars. Even went as far as to put "softer" springs in them each individually, his equipment ran extremely well, but you could see the kadee wheelsets he used were starting to break down and leave residue all over the layout.
He may have been onto something because there was a branch on one peninsula of the railroad that had code 70 rail, the cars with the sprung trucks would rock and sway down the branch and not derail, looked neat.
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