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Anybody know who made this truck?
I have only the one shown, but can't find a similar one on-line, or any reference to who might have offered it. It looks to me like it might be from Model Die Casting, especially since it doesn't have an extension for a coupler, like the passenger car trucks that were offered by Athearn.
If anybody has one to offer, or even several, I might be interested if the price is right.
Thanks for looking.
Wayne
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Mdc Challenger trucks?
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(02-14-2021, 10:29 PM)nachoman Wrote: Mdc Challenger trucks?
That was my first thought, but I seem to recall them having either somewhat pointy or swoopy-looking ends.
I was surprised to find this photo fairly quickly in photobucket, and was able to copy and paste it into a folder on my computer (I cannot post photos directly from photobucket on Big Blue for some reason).
The lack of an extension for a coupler does reinforce my opinion that my lonely truck is a MDC product, though.
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Well, after some thought on where I might have used the missing partner for this lonely truck, it came to me after clouting myself in the head several times with a ball peen hammer (punishment for being so stoopid)...
I also found, while going through a box of passenger car stuff, a small piece of cardstock with the hand-written notation....
MDC 4 wheel Pullman trucks Part #480-2937 (wonder which dummy wrote that?)
A previous search using that info yielded absolutely nothing, but about two minutes ago I found a pair of what appears to be the same trucks, but with a -2935 suffix. I can afford the trucks, but the shipping is more than double that cost. I can do without, I think, and maybe will find some at a train show later this year....or maybe even later, the following year.
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That is the rear truck for an Athearn streamlined observation car, one of the boat tail stainless steel cars. All the other passenger car trucks had a coupler attached. Teh rear truck of those cars did not. Kits for those cars had one truck with a coupler and one truck without.
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Thanks for that information, Dave. As I recall, I bought two identical trucks (no extensions for couplers) in a plastic bag, with the blue and yellow Athearn tag stapled to it. As I noted above, I had used one of them for that kitbashed centipede tender. They must have changed the part number when Horizon took over Athearn, as I can't seem find them. I thought that if someone had a lone matching truck, I'd offer to buy it, just because, other than on centipede tenders, there's not much use for just one.
Wayne