I bought a few pieces of Tyco rolling stock second hand, namely a "BM" hopper car and a "Pennsylvania" gondola car. They're not out of the ordinary, except for the fact both sport metal axles. I've always seen Tyco as a more basic producer, and that their stuff would have always had the more basic plastic axles. Since I bought these second hand though, there is a chance that the axles were installed after purchase, but if they were then why did the installer not add metal wheels/trucks? sim-al2 Also since they cut track maintaince the trains had huge trouble making over the railroad by the end 純那 yeah They did a Rock Island volountarily
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I think some of the older stuff did have metal axles and plastic wheels. I have some stuff from about 1970 that came that way. I later got a piggyback car with plastic axles and eventually swapped those out. The axles warped and the car wobbled. Carpe Manana!
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Ah okay, thanks for the answer. Wonder why they switched. Was the difference that much? Actually I guess it'd be easier to just cast one plastic axle-wheel set than cast two wheels and attach them to a metal axle. sim-al2 Also since they cut track maintaince the trains had huge trouble making over the railroad by the end 純那 yeah They did a Rock Island volountarily
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Ah okay, thanks for the answer. Wonder why they switched. Was the difference that much? Actually I guess it'd be easier to just cast one plastic axle-wheel set than cast two wheels and attach them to a metal axle.
Originally posted by Pokemonprime - August 23 2016 : 3:49:01 PM
I would assume they went to a one piece plastic wheelset for the cost savings. Those early plastic wheel/metal axle wheelsets were nice ones - they rolled well and had the correct flanges too. I could imagine why they went to the all-plastic wheelset for the cost savings but never figured out why they increased the flange size. Maybe they figured they kept the cars on the tracks better?http://tycodepot.com/
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