Wanted to bring this thread back alive about some of the finer details of the J. Gilly answers my question about pilot wheels, but how about Trailing Truck and Tender side frames. Specifically MTH has used two versions.
I am redoing a Williams N&W #611 J. The Engines trail truck has the same side frame as the MTH PS-1 version of J and Class A. The unshrouded also uses it. Later PS-3 J shifted to a different side frame. Was one early and the other late, or just wrong modeling on the early ones MTH did.
Tender trucks come in 2 versions. Plain bearing, and the SKF bearing. Same question?
The chassis picture shows TT side frame of Williams and early MTH PS-1. Was this ever used on real J.
The tender picture show SKF on left used at times by MTH, and the Williams version similar one also used by MTH. MTH even in same release year used both versions, one for Timken side rods and the other for Plain side rods.
What's up? Can the expert help school on this. Thank you, G
