Passenger Car Trucks By S Scale Locomotive & Supply

Key Info

Model Manufacturer:

S Scale Locomotive & Supply

Category:

passenger car

Name:

6-wheel Commonwealth Pullman-Standard

Bearings:

solid/friction

Prototype Manufacturer:

Commonwealth

Wheelbase:

11'

Model Info

Intended For:

scale | hi-rail

Manufacturer ID:

400.1/2/3

Sprung:

yes

Equalized:

yes

Truck Material:

brass kit

Truck Finish:

unpainted

Wheels:

not included

Model Notes:

The detail and flexing action are quite nice. The truck can be modernized to represent an early all-steel truck with separate pedestals by removing the cast-in bolt heads on the top beam. Ed Kirstatter noted that this kit of lost-wax brass castings is rather challenging to build, requiring filing and bending of parts to get a smooth rolling truck. The bolsters are made of an insulating material, and come wired for lighting. The various sub-numbers of the product IDs are for the different spring tensions, which depend on the weight of the car for which these trucks are used.

Key Info

Model Manufacturer:

S Scale Locomotive & Supply

Category:

passenger car

Bearings:

roller

Wheelbase:

Model Info

Intended For:

scale | hi-rail

Manufacturer ID:

400.6

Sprung:

Equalized:

yes

Truck Material:

brass kit

Truck Finish:

unpainted

Wheels:

not included

Model Notes:

When the Enhorning trucks were beginning to deteriorate, S Scale Loco & Supply modified one of the sideframes as a pattern for making brass investment castings. SSL&S milled off the integrally-cast brake cylinder and torsion bar and replaced them with individual three-dimensional parts before casting.

Shown here is the top-down view of the Enhorning (left) and SSL&S trucks to illustrate the differences. Unfortunately, SSL&S did not take the opportunity to make two mirror-image patterns, easy to do with separate cylinders and torsion bars, so, the brake piston points the wrong way on one side of every truck.