@John Sethian posted:No disrepect detected or taken. To each his own.
But you just might want to look at a real truck again. Atlas trucks are too wide, their side frames are way too thick, and their journal boxes do not stick out very far compared to an actual box. In the three rail world, Lionel, MTH, and Weaver produce far more realistic trucks.
But again, as I said to each his own!
Atlas updated their trucks some time ago because of criticisms as mentioned by John
It's a shame Weaver was, at one time, the only source of good plastic truck design: regular, prototype, flat, truck bolsters with separate spacers for 3-rail, rather than toy train design. Luckily I picked up some USHobbies r/b trucks years ago with SPINNING ROLLER BEARINGS. Had to put that in capitals in case the tool-designers hadn't seen the real thing, not just still photos. I'll stop now and not ramble on about 3-rail loco truck design being based on solid sideframes, totally separate from wheelsets, so no spinning r/bs.
Jason
