Athern Go Train coaches wheel alignment

[Paradise275]

peteski, it was a 4 wheel truck with a long drawbar but it didn't have the screw adjuster on the passenger 4 wheel trucks.

Rick

[peteski]

peteski, it was a 4 wheel truck with a long drawbar but it didn't have the screw adjuster on the passenger 4 wheel trucks.

Rick

Oh, a standard short-wheelbase freight truck with extended coupler.  That (to me) would be totally unacceptable.

[railnerd]

If you can make a reliable truck rebuild I'm in for 8 pairs!

me too…  got some CalTrain cars I'd like to see actually roll someday.

[Catt]

What I did with my Bachmann "tubes" was chamfer the axle hole till where it was almost razor sharp.This made a huge difference in rolling ability.After the GVR bought a bunch of "tubes" from Amtrak they replaces the trucks with modern outside bearing trucks with Fox Valley wheels.Now they really roll nicely.

[Jeff AKA St0rm]

Athern's trucks have gotten worse and worse. Even the trucks on their latest run of tank cars are not as free rolling as they should be.