I don't know what all this talk is about Williams Passenger car trucks having fast angle/needle bearing wheels. The Broadway Limited set that I just purchased has the old Lionel type wheels on axles. The cars roll terrible even when lubed. We could in theory replace the wheel sets with fast angle wheels but we would need to find a way to get the little bushings in the trucks so that the needle ends don't "drill" through. The other option is replacing all of the trucks but that would be a very expensive proposition. Williams needs to improve their trucks instead of shipping their passenger cars with 1930's technology.
Dennis,
This was a problem with only a "certain run" of Williams passenger cars in the past and has nothing to do with current WBB stuff.
So the new Williams stuff should be very good to own.
Lee fritz
Lee: My set of Williams aluminum passenger cars was purchased just last weekend. In addition to not being able to stay on the tracks (without some tweaking), the set gives about twice the drag as even my old 1980's MPC set gives. IMO, Williams trucks are just terrible; no fast angle wheels used, high drag and 1930's technology..
