Excellent post John,I never noticed the offset bolster on the m/t trucks.Would you know what other m/t cars/trucks have this bolster offset?Also,how much material do you re-move off the bolster itself? I'm tempted to get started on some right now lol.
better late than never.. did a bit of work on the street on my new module, took some time out to snap some trains running through SP manifest Later that night a NS coalie rolled through
depends on what you have to swap - NS or C&NW yes...anything else....no it has it's place in the rosters.
Hi, Jason, I don't know what other MT cars/trucks have the offset.... I guess we'd have to go the LHS and look. Re: your question about how much bolster material had to be removed - I don't have any before pictures to compare with - but it was quite a lot. Maybe someone with a stock MT Hi-Cube boxcar can take a side picture of their frame, and we'd be able to compare that with my photos above. Good luck! It wasn't hard to do.... just took a little bit of time as it wsa the first one I'd ever done. I'd think doing another one would be a bit faster now that I know what I did the first time.