A friend gave me a few boxes full of Westbrook freight cars, at least that is what I have found so far, have not had the time to check them all. A while back he gave me a homemade 2-14-2 loco where the same builder of the Westbrook cars, used an 8 and 6 wheel loco drivers and motors under a nicely modified boiler shell, with a tender modified with real coal and other attributes to make it as real as possible. The cars are nicely built, wood floors with steel frames, metal doors and slide, great graphics, and it appears that the trucks need some cleaning and lubrication as the only work they need. They have body mounted scale couplers that have a pretty good swing to them. I read somewhere that these will not operate on Lionel track, but do not understand why that is, as long as the curves are broad enough to allow the couplers to not force the car off the track. The trucks are a combination of rigid and sprung, and the flanges look like they would handle Lionel tubular or the modern stuff just fine. My main line has 72 inch curves. Any Westbrook car users out there with some insight? Thanks.
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