Railroad trucks

[Anonymous]

Help.
Bought some garage sale stuff. Number of freight car bodies,etc. without trucks, or broken. Wi***o repair and paint for my line. Went on-line to a number of venders. Without having to do extensive research how do you know wha trucks to buy, had some 50+ to choose from at one site. Any general rule of thumb to follow? Not interested in the most modern, some cars from the "20's. thanks. Don

[cwclark]

I usually purchase "all metal" bettendorff 70 ton trucks and on occasion barber S-2 roller bearing trucks, ..atlas trucks are my favorite, but intermountain and kadee trucks aren't too shabby either..i put the bettendorf on most boxcars and the barbers on hoppers and gondolas

[IRONROOSTER]

Kalmbach has a book on freight cars "The Model Railroader's Guide to Freight Cars" that has a section on trucks.
Enjoy
Paul

[Anonymous]

Don't know where my head is?? Have the book in my library and didn't even think about it. Senility strikes again. Thanks.

[Tilden]

Lately I've had some trouble with trucks. A couple of trucks on an A-Line 5 car double stack set were out of square. This caused the trucks to derail a odd places on the track. Of course replacing them with sprung trucks solved the problem, but it was a hassle none the less.