My expierience with big locos

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Next were improvements on the trailing truck. This was unsprung an only it's own weight will keep it on the rails.


The part as original as it was created in 1962 for Max Grey and then again 1972 for Westside Imports.





Drilling out of the bores an clean them up.





It will look better when the bores are cleaned too... :oops:





The place where the trailing truck used to be mounted. Here a rear suspension was made for. A sliding shoe was made out of an tubular rivet.
N.B. for rivet counters: You have to count an additional rivet here.





The rear axle got a simple modification, so that the trailing truck has now a 3-point suspension in itself.





The front suspension.





And the whole thing mounted. Both wheelsets are now evenly loaded and all four wheels will be pemanently on the rails.
The bracket prevents the trailing truck to fall down when the loco is handled with the five finger crane.


The treatment of the tender trucks were posted here earlier in a separate thread, which has been moved and is now at the beginning of this thread.


Cheers Lutz