Brent;
The brass Kettle Valley set used Central Valley trucks (brass plated to match
the cars). Sometimes they show up at swap meets or flea markets. I built a
couple of the coaches (a 4 wheel and a 6 wheel) and managed to obtain the 6
wheel trucks that way. For the 4 wheel trucks, I had a couple of pairs of
Kirlin 4 wheel trucks I had purchased earlier. The correct trucks are of the
wood beam type and thus have several bolt heads cast on the beam. The
Walthers 6 wheel trucks (top equalized) are close, but are patterned after the
cast steel variety which came along later but are a derivative of the earlier
wood beam version.
Another source you may want to try is Bethlehem Car Works
(<bethlehemcarworks.com>). they also make the Sparrow point line which includes
a CPR wood baggage car kit. They may have suitable trucks. Another source may
be Precision Scale.
Jim Little
Vernon BC
On Saturday, November 30, 2013 1:49 PM, "brentglen@xxxxxxxx"
<brentglen@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hello,
A friend and myself are undertaking a project to build a Kettle Valley
Passenger car set as per Gib Kennedy in the 1959 MR article.
I am trying to source some of the bits and pieces that we will need, and one
item is the trucks. I have some 4 wheel trucks that will work on the baggage
and RPO cars, but the larger cars used 6 wheel trucks and I am not sure what to
use. I see various trucks listed in the Walthers catalog, most listed as
"Pullman" trucks, but I am not sure what ones are appropriate for the CPR wood
observation and dining cars.
Anyone else built these cars? Any hints or suggestions gladly accepted!
Brent
Calgary
