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One other option, and cheaper, is replace the wheel sets in the current trucks with metal wheeled wheelsets. Manufacturers include Life-Like P2000, Intermountain, Reboxx, Kadee, NWSL, and Atlas. Any of these should be readily available at your LHS. The differences will be some will have plastic axels others metal axels and axle length. Inexpensive dial calipers can be had for as little as $7. This is important as some manufactures are using trucks that are narrower the the wheelset commonly available. The narrow issue is not a show stopper as Reboxx and NWSL (NorthWest Short Line)offer wheelset with different lenght axels. Rough guide is 33" are freight, 36" are passenger and modern freight (70 ton and 100 ton trucks), ribbed backed wheels were legal upto mid/late '50's for interchange service. Plain back were available in the 40's and beyond.
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