N scale Swing-Motion Trucks

prusaprinters

These Diamond Arch-Bar trucks are modelled off of Chicago & Northwestern's style of arch-bar trucks, of which the plans are featured in the 1895 Car Builder's Cyclopedia, Figure 4741. Reference photos of V&T 1015 were used for creating this model, which is an ex-C&NW boxcar according to the Nevada State Railroad Museum, who currently owns this prototype boxcar. V&T Box Car #1015 (nsrm-friends.org) I've included an AT&SF version of the trucks I've found in a few pictures, the center support is different. It's a foobie, as it's just a slight modification to the CNW trucks that I completely eyeballed, but at this scale, it probably doesn't make any difference. The axles are toleranced to accept intermountain axles (only metal axles I could get my hands on currently), but they should hold MTL axles just as well, although they might need a tiny bit of squishing. The width of the part is exactly to scale, although some other details might have been thickened for printability. I printed these on a prusa SL1S with siryatech smoky black (if I remember correctly). I will release the coach bogies when I get around to finishing my combine model, sadly, college has been not giving me time to rail model. If you really need it, send me a DM on here, I probably still go on printables at least once a month or so, so I should see the notification. I'll get some nicer pictures if I ever remember, too. The trucks look nice when painted, but you'll have to take my word for it until I get around to my model railroad again. Oh, the kit pictured is the Fine-N-Scale boxcar kit. I would highly recommend it; the kit is wonderful. The company is still active as of this past summer. I got mine off ebay, it appears not many stores carry it. This model is shared under a CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 license, which means that you can freely use this model for any non-commercial purpose, and may remix and alter this model freely as long as you provide attribution and share with the same creative commons license. Feel free to contact me through the message feature if you want clarifications or have other questions regarding licensing.