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Good alternatives to Boulder Valley Models trucks?

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Good alternatives to Boulder Valley Models trucks?
Posted by Bering on Sunday, January 29, 2017 3:36 PM

Recently i have beel looking more and more into On30.  Unfornatly there seemes to be a rather large gap in the archbar truck supply.  I have looked around a fair bit and the only trucks that struck my fancy were the BVM trucks.  I have a couple bachman trucks but they look to long for my tastes.  Does anyone know of a supplier of shorter HO/On30 archbar trucks?

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Posted by trwroute on Sunday, January 29, 2017 7:06 PM

The BVM trucks were actually Tichy HO archbar trucks with HO 36" wheelsets.

https://www.tichytraingroup.com/Shop/tabid/91/c/trucks/p/3002/Default.aspx

I've used both Kadee and Intermountain wheelsets with these trucks.

Chuck - Modeling in HO scale and anything narrow gauge

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Posted by Bering on Sunday, January 29, 2017 10:37 PM

Oh wow, good to know that they are still out there.  Any recommendations about wheel diameter?  

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Posted by trwroute on Monday, January 30, 2017 8:05 AM

Like I mentioned in the earlier reply, any HO scale 36" wheelset will work.  This measures right at 20" in O scale.  For comparison, most of the 3 foot narrow gauge lines used either 24" or 26" wheels.

Chuck - Modeling in HO scale and anything narrow gauge

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