@William B Davis posted:Okay, thanks. Are you saying it’s either too difficult or too risky to try to remove the wheel sets from the trucks?
If these are original red stripe SF 256X cars, I suggest you leave them alone, except for some lubrication.
What are you going to do if you remove the wheel sets? Machine the axle ends? Replace the wheel sets?
Besides, there is at most a 5 car train pulled by a twin horizontal motor F-3 which won't tax that locomotive at all.