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For those who don’t FB, Scott Weatherford, good friend of many in the 1/8 scale train community, has passed from complications due to a heart attack suffered last week. Years ago I had met Scott thru model railroading, later I had ran into him at a local restaurant when he first got into 1/8th scale...

Ryan, regarding your locomotive trucks, did you drill a center hole thru the truck bolster for the bolt/pin? Looks to me, unless I drill the bolster hole bigger than my 1” bolt, it won’t allow the truck to pivot and n the bearing. I hate to drill big hole in my 3”x3/4” bolster bar. Seems it would ca...

BDD- I went thru your F- unit build page, and it looks like you bolted the flange bearing to the locomotive frame, versus bolting the bearings to the truck bolster? Correct? I’m trying to understand your reasoning for that? I have been considering fabricating a spherical bearing housing and welding...

BDD- I went thru your F- unit build page, and it looks like you bolted the flange bearing to the locomotive frame, versus bolting the bearings to the truck bolster? Correct? I’m trying to understand your reasoning for that? I have been considering fabricating a spherical bearing housing and welding ...

Well, I ordered a couple of 2-bolt flange bearings with 1” bore for the body bolster center pin to sit in. The housing width is 2.756”, so it should fit nicely on my 3” with bolster. Guess I’ll see in how tight the bearings are and then decide whether or not to flap wheel them. Now to start working...

Well, I ordered a couple of 2-bolt flange bearings with 1” bore for the body bolster center pin to sit in. Almost strong enough for a full-sized car. :D Lol! Maybe so! My cars are fairly big at 28”x96”. had talked with Todd Swan about the bolster setup he uses on his 16” gauge trains and he uses 1....

Well, I ordered a couple of 2-bolt flange bearings with 1” bore for the body bolster center pin to sit in. The housing width is 2.756”, so it should fit nicely on my 3” with bolster. Guess I’ll see in how tight the bearings are and then decide whether or not to flap wheel them. Now to start working ...

Ryan, are you still going with your bolster center pin design?
I’m seriously considering going with the Grand Scales center plate. It’s slightly wider than my 3”
Bolster bar, if I add a 1/2” plate base to bolt it to I believe it’ll work out good.

Looking good!
Lol, something looks vaguely familiar about your trucks. Been playing around with my booster bar setup. Looks like the Chevy valve spring will work good for me.

Southern Pacific’s GE 50tonner #1.
George Town used to have a couple of GE 52ton U6B’s.
DRGW had a Davenport 30 tonner.

Interesting article on ILBS about someone who built a 2.5” scale 0-4-0. Using weight plates as drivers with slices of steel pipe for tires. Utilizing tapper bushings to attach the plate to axels. http://ibls.org/mediawiki/index.php?title=Wayne_Davis