Dale,
I don't know how the trucks are mounted on the NKP as I've never built one
of the heavyweights, but on an old Soho brass combine, I used a set of the
Branchline six wheel trucks and they mounted up fine and the car rolls very
well. I've also had good luck with the Intermountain ball bearing wheel sets. I
used them in most of the 1956 DZ Shoreham cars. Sadly for the older brass cars
such as the Oriental Limited Burlington cars a good replacement truck is the
Kato "Business Car" truck. They roll like a greased water melon smooth and
they also track perfect.
I have a couple of the old Walthers switchers, the ones that could pull
themselves plus one or two freight cars, that switcher can pull my Twin Zephyr
8
cars with the Kato trucks without slipping. It's not a cheap fix though, but
it's worth the cost. I figure with the shipping it costs about $17.00 per car
to retruck them. I had to laugh when I bought the trucks for my old Nickel
Plate CZ cars, I paid $25.00 per car, with the trucks, dome seating, dome
glazing, and the tinted windows, the "options" cost more than the cars did when
I
bought them back in 1976.
Loren Johnson
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