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How many frogs do you think it takes before just putting in some turnouts becomes cheaper? 🤔
you could have just got the wheel sets. as they will work in the trucks. I did it to all my older kato engines.
I wish they would done wheel sets for the older passenger cars...Ordered some to replace my Canadian Pacific cars and the replacement were the same size.
I've been ordering the new trucks for the 20th century to get the wheels with the smaller flanges - you can get extra cars worth of wheels if you order the 6 wheel baggage car trucks. These have the smaller flanges, and I've been retrofitting all my older Kato trucks with them. Not cheap, but as was stated before, if you order just the wheels, they send you the older ones with the larger flanges.......grrrr......Nate
Well, the only part number available is for the older wheels. Kato still makes those (probably for the Japanese market). Maybe if all the modelers who want the newer wheels contact Kato USA and request the new low-profile wheels (like I did), they will start offering them for sale.What you are doing is depleting the the truck inventory. I hope that you aren't tossing out the wheel-less trucks themselves. I suspect some day someone will be looking for those (wheels or no wheels).