My plastic freight car challenge

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Thank you, Sven and thank you, Wayne.
In this case the decals are included of the Westerfield kits - however it could be that there will be a small difference to those offered by Art Griffin's. I will see what my friend means about it which will paint the models.

Here yet two pictures taken at FREMO-meeting in last weekend (FREMO - FRiends of European MOdel railroaders with three different US-subdivisions, one in Unna near Dortmund, Germany).



Switching with an old however digitalized Marklin F-7 (not my own).


The cars did run very well and my three-point suspension worked also without problems. Here two pictures how I realized it.



One truck is fastened only by a screw without every additional parts and the model rest with an easily convax surface. So the truck can swing in all directions.



The second truck is fastened with a feather and thus it can wobble on the narrowly filed edge only in direction of moving. The only problem is to be found the right spring tension by softer or harder feathers or also by a varying length. In any case, the truck must be able to turn without big opposition and only in second entity the feather must prevent sideways wobbling the model.
In addition I have found just with some brass car models a lot to strong feathers for the connection of the trucks and then just the "better" and more expansive brass models have often jumped the track. Then, nevertheless, there I must still invest some reworking.

All in all, very nice days at Fremo-meeting and a gain a good time in discussions and exchange of experiences. And my complete 1930 train did run on a bigger layout – unfortunately without good pictures.