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I need a pair of reproduction Standard Gauge Ives 6-wheel passenger car trucks complete with wheels, couplers, and electrical roller pickups.  I want to install them on a Standard Gauge RichArt baggage car I own that is missing both its trucks.   I  checked George Teabolt's website and I couldn't find them listed there and I contacted the MTH parts department and amazingly they said they didn't have any in stock.  Anyone know another source for these Ives trucks?

 

Bob Nelson

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Originally Posted by navy.seal:

I need a pair of reproduction Standard Gauge Ives 6-wheel passenger car trucks complete with wheels, couplers, and electrical roller pickups.  I want to install them on a Standard Gauge RichArt baggage car I own that is missing both its trucks.   I  checked George Teabolt's website and I couldn't find them listed there and I contacted the MTH parts department and amazingly they said they didn't have any in stock.  Anyone know another source for these Ives trucks?

 

Bob Nelson

 

Originally Posted by The Nighthawk:

 

 

   Nobody makes them.

Is anyone concerned as I now am that MTH no longer carries in stock what I would consider some very basic repair parts for their reproduction Standard Gauge Ives passenger cars? 

 

Makes me now wonder if in the future MTH will similarly not have in stock the tinplate parts I may need to repair the several expensive Tinplate locomotives I have purchased from them!  

 

Bob

 

 

 


 

Originally Posted by navy.seal:

Is anyone concerned as I now am that MTH no longer carries in stock what I would consider some very basic repair parts for their reproduction Standard Gauge Ives passenger cars? 

 

Makes me now wonder if in the future MTH will similarly not have in stock the tinplate parts I may need to repair the several expensive Tinplate locomotives I have purchased from them!  

 

Bob

 

I bought one of the National Limited sets from the first run.  One of the cars had a short in the wiring, and another would derail as soon as it hit a curve, due to a poorly-stamped truck frame.  Even then, MTH had no available complete trucks, but sent another frame.  So I had to have the bad truck removed, disassembled, frame replaced, reassembled...

 

I think it's ridiculous that they don't run an ample supply of extra parts to sell as well as stock for future replacement.  If only I could buy MTH stock and complain at a stockholder meeting!

 

They did, however, make a run of Dorfan trucks when the passenger cars were released, and a lot of rolling stock is running after being sidetracked for many years.

Two versions of this truck were made by IVES. The first was made from 1925-27 and was used on the deluxe 180 181 182 cars. These can show up with all 6 wheels, or sometimes with just 4 per truck. Our best guess is cost cutting measures in 1927. These trucks used a fiber roller pick up and standard mounting.

 

The second truck, reworked to use the smaller journals also added a spreader bar. Although some early 1928 180 series cars did not have one, but they are very rare. This truck used snake pull mounting and was made from 1928-30. It came on the large American Flyer and Lionel bodied cars in the "Occupation" years. They also came in red when used on a Black Diamond, or Chief car. 

 

1927 truck

 

 

 

 

 

   The difference must be only on the MTH imitations. My original Chief and Black Diamond have the same trucks....

 

  I should have some of these made up in the next few weeks. I got sick of hunting for them. Had the sideframes and spreader bars laser cut, still working on the bolsters. Of course you are on your own with wheels and trim....

Junkers would be great, unfortunately the cars which used these trucks are incredibly rare, in some colors only a few are known. So even a junker can be in the 4 figure range.

 

MEW never made them, RichArt was the last and Dick used the Varney Sirus tooling. Mine should be perfect down to the slightest detail, i just need to make a die for the bolster to stick in the ram. 

 

 

 

I need 3 for a set of 28' cadet blue 187 188 189 cars and im sick of waiting!

This car has Lionel trucks and couplers with Ives badging.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Lionel-Ives-Transition-Passenger-Car-490-Standard-Gauge-Scarce-Nice-Boxed-/221127842257?pt=Model_RR_Trains&hash=item337c3f19d1

Was it made this way? I always thought the Ives badged cars had Ives trucks and snake couplers.

 

I looked on the MEW parts list and they have item 1177 late STG truck. Page 11 maybe. Is this the correct truck or something different.

Originally Posted by F&G RY:

This car has Lionel trucks and couplers with Ives badging.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Lionel-Ives-Transition-Passenger-Car-490-Standard-Gauge-Scarce-Nice-Boxed-/221127842257?pt=Model_RR_Trains&hash=item337c3f19d1

Was it made this way? I always thought the Ives badged cars had Ives trucks and snake couplers.

 

I looked on the MEW parts list and they have item 1177 late STG truck. Page 11 maybe. Is this the correct truck or something different.

The truck on the ebay listing car is a Lionel truck.  The very last versions of the Lionel cars with Ives badges (decals) in apple green were pure Lionel cars, straight off the Lionel shelf, with all Lionel parts, trucks and couplers included.  These cars were made in the Lionel factory and they just put Ives decals where the cars would normally say "Lionel Lines".  There is nothing Ives about these cars, except the name.


The MEW part 1177 is probably a Lionel type truck....either 4 or 6 wheel.  You'll have to call / email Barry and ask him.

 

Originally Posted by The Nighthawk:

Junkers would be great, unfortunately the cars which used these trucks are incredibly rare, in some colors only a few are known. So even a junker can be in the 4 figure range.

 

MEW never made them, RichArt was the last and Dick used the Varney Sirus tooling. Mine should be perfect down to the slightest detail, i just need to make a die for the bolster to stick in the ram. 

 

 

 

I need 3 for a set of 28' cadet blue 187 188 189 cars and im sick of waiting!


MEW may not have made them "yet", but when Dick Mayer was making some of my Standard Gauge Milwaukee Road passenger cars I recall him telling me that he was waiting to receive back from MEW some of the truck parts (wheels, axles, etc.) he needed to complete my order.  He told me that MEW had just purchased his tooling and spare parts for these cars under the provision that he would be able to get back from them any parts he needed to complete the orders he had taken prior to selling the tooling/parts to MEW.  Based on this discussion, it's quite possible that MEW has the tooling but has just not used it yet to make some Ives 6-wheel passenger car trucks. 

 

I just emailed MEW and asked if they had this tooling. 

 

Bob Nelson

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