
I had a memory that Scale-Craft had cataloged a type of passenger truck that I have never seen. S-C made a plain bearing 4 wheel passenger truck that is depicted on P. 47 of the Round Lake catalog only—it was introduced very late in their production and I have never seen one in reality [anyone have one?]. BUT, the truck on the car on the left is not that truck--it would have rounded off ends--and S-C never cataloged an express reefer truck!
It looked at first to me like a factory item but looking closer clearly a modeler worked these up themselves by filing down the roller bearings into something close to plain bearings, filing off the brake hangers, and changing them over to the smaller wheelsets. They are actually pretty effective, makes you wish Scale-Craft had in fact produced a similar express reefer truck.
UPDATE: Rare S-C truck located! This truck would have been just right for a Scale-Craft express reefer, if one had been produced. There is more at the link but in short after WWII Scale-Craft produced a 4-wheel plain bearing passenger truck, an orphan item in their line.
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