S Scale Locomotive & Supply Rolling Stock Trucks

S Scale Locomotive & Supply

400.6

Passenger Car Truck

Brass Kit

unpainted

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. The main photo shows the top-down view of the SSL&S and Enhorning 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, again, the brake piston points the wrong way on one side of every truck.

S Scale Locomotive & Supply

Freight Car Truck

Andrews

Brass

unpainted

5'9"

Coil springs.

S Scale Locomotive & Supply

234.3

Caboose Truck

Andrews

Brass

unpainted

5'9"

33" wheels. Dummy elliptical springs.

S Scale Locomotive & Supply

234.5/6

Freight Car Truck

Cast Steel

Commonwealth

Brass

unpainted

S Scale Locomotive & Supply

234.4

Freight Car Truck

Drop-equalized

Commonwealth

Brass

unpainted

S Scale Locomotive & Supply

400.1/2/3

Passenger Car Truck

Pullman-Standard

Commonwealth

Brass Kit

unpainted

Wheel center: 11'. 36" wheels. Sprung, six-wheel, wood-beam, drop-equalizer Pullman truck is a kit. 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 notes 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.

S Scale Locomotive & Supply

234

Freight Car Truck

Solid (friction) Bearing

Buckeye Steel Castings

1910

Brass

unpainted

10'

Three axles. Frame is articulated. Used on heavy-weight freight cars, wrecking cranes, and locomotive tenders. The truck came with the company's 2-8-4 kit and was also available separately.

(note that Steam Depot had Altoona Shops produce a similar truck but out of pewter, and SSL&S allegedly accused them of copyright infractions)