steamaheadstephen59 wrote:There was an article in 'O Scale Railroading' I think.
Lordy, there's an article! I will have to nose around (pun intended) to see if I can find it.
Here is my favorite PA set:
These were scratch-built by the late Bob Hall and are from the collection of Richard Garberson. Richard tells me that they originally had Lionel drives with scratch-built PA trucks. He removed the drives with the intent of installing 2-rail drives but never did so. Here is a sideview of one of the an original trucks:
They are surprisingly good. It'd be neat to keep the scratch-built trucks but it might be easier to simply install a complete CLW chassis (which I have in hand). A test fit of the CLW chassis to the body might be the key here. If it readily fits, then I'll probably go that way.
I haven't made completing these units a priority as I don't have an appropriate consist, but I do hear them calling me. Cab-unit diesels seem to be a real challenge to scratch-built, in part due to the shape of the nose but also all the detail on the sides. This pair is as good as any I have seen and better than most. History hawks will note that the Mopac did not have PBs. I plan to ignore this fact, which I wouldn't under most any other circumstance.
Jim