{"id":65,"date":"2018-09-09T16:51:00","date_gmt":"2018-09-09T16:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/americanootoday.com\/?p=65"},"modified":"2021-06-19T21:22:24","modified_gmt":"2021-06-19T21:22:24","slug":"an-ho-arch-bar-truck-conversion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/americanootoday.com\/?p=65","title":{"rendered":"An HO Arch Bar Truck Conversion"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>One thing you need on train cars are trucks. Bill Gilbert has been focusing on building a fleet of 19th century cars lately, and with a truck shortage came up with an interesting conversion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/americanootoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/IMGP6811-2.jpg?resize=422%2C274&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1662\" width=\"422\" height=\"274\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/americanootoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/IMGP6811-2.jpg?resize=1024%2C666&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/americanootoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/IMGP6811-2.jpg?resize=300%2C195&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/americanootoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/IMGP6811-2.jpg?resize=768%2C499&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/americanootoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/IMGP6811-2.jpg?resize=850%2C550&amp;ssl=1 850w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/americanootoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/IMGP6811-2.jpg?w=1034&amp;ssl=1 1034w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 422px) 100vw, 422px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>What he noted was, to quote him, \u201cthe Mantua HO arch bar trucks with the steam engine have a sheet metal bolster that can be flattened out with pliers.\u201d You would do this just enough to put widened out HO 36\u201d wheelsets in the frames. \u201cThey are short (4\u2019-6\u201d) vs (5\u2019-0\u201d) but look good under the short tender.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As he noted, the wheelbase is short on these Mantua\/Tyco trucks but it is a decent stand in, and I think better than another possible substitute, On3 trucks. I tried to arrange the trucks in the photo to show the bolsters and side frames. These are not yet modified for OO and I\u2019ll be sending them to Bill.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The best though I still think are Sn3 conversion trucks, the PBL trucks being a little pricy but they roll and look good, worth the effort. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One thing you need on train cars are trucks. Bill Gilbert has been focusing on building a fleet of 19th century cars lately, and with<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1662,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ho-conversions","category-mantua"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/americanootoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/IMGP6811-2.jpg?fit=1034%2C672&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/americanootoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/americanootoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/americanootoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americanootoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americanootoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/americanootoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1663,"href":"https:\/\/americanootoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65\/revisions\/1663"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americanootoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/americanootoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americanootoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americanootoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}