Pullman (undecorated)

American Models (click for web site)

840

Passenger Car Truck

Pullman

Die-cast

painted & lettered

Lightweight 4-wheel. Available with hi-rail wheels (#840HR) or scale wheels (#840S). These are the trucks that American Models puts on all of their streamlined passenger cars. It is equalized, but not sprung. There is an obvious blank space in the center of the truck that the fussier modeler will want to fill. The third photo shows Dick Karnes' modifications to this truck using available B.T.S. detailing parts, which includes the torsion bar, brake cylinder, and instructions for constructing the shock strut (in the center, made from a short piece of solid wire with its own insulation sleeve). This is B.T.S. detail part #02407.