Steam Depot Rolling Stock Trucks

Manufacturer:

Steam Depot

Category:

Passenger Car Truck

Model Introduced:

1991

Product Type:

Metal Kit

Finish:

unpainted

Notes:

Commonwealth, 4-wheel. Did not come with wheelsets. Reviewed by Dick Karnes in the October 1991 issue of the 3/16 "S"cale Railroading magazine.

Manufacturer:

Steam Depot

Category:

Freight Car Truck

Name:

Six-wheel Freight Truck

Prototype Manufacturer:

Buckeye Steel Castings

Product Type:

Pewter

Finish:

unpainted

Prototype Dimensions:

9'4"

Notes:

Manufactured by Altoona Shops for Steam Depot. Used under tenders, or heavy flat cars or gondolas. The truck is sprung, but the frame is rigid on this model. Note that Bill installed NorthWest ShortLine wheels, which did not come with the truck originally.

(A side note: Altoona Shops was alleged, by S Scale Locomotive & Supply, to have copied SSL&S' brass version and re-cast and sold it in pewter, and was supposedly threatened with a lawsuit)