Seeking advice on freight motor power truck and trailing truck

Model Railroader General Discussion (Model Railroader)
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Hi All,

I’m an experienced modeller, but brand new to traction. in fact, I have just one La Belle Ohio Electric Freight motor kit. I built it just for the fun of it, but it turned out so well, I want to equip it with appropriate trucks and hopefully a power truck.

I don’t even know any traction folks, so I’m starting from zero here. Anyone got any information to share? I’m looking for a vendor of HO traction parts, I guess. All the vendors listed in the La Belle instructions are long gone.

I did find one page with some photos of Ohio electric freight motors:

http://davesrailpix.com/odds/oh/oh1.htm

and a vendor of traction parts in O (I’m in HO).

http://www.currentline.net/frt.htm

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For power trucks and drives, you can try Hollywood Foundry

(Link removed as it didn’t work)

or North West Short Line

(Link removed as it didn’t work)

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Gandydancer19,

Thanks!

I also discovered that Bowser bought the Pennsy Scale Models line back in the late 60’s. Bowser sells a power truck and some sideframes.

http://bowser-trains.com/hoother/trolleys/misc/misc.htm

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Hi Gandy,

Just a note, neither of your links work. I tried them several times.

Johnboy out…

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here ya go:

http://www.hollywoodfoundry.com/

and

http://www.nwsl.com/

Ed

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Ed took care of it, I think. Here’s a direct link to the BullAnt lone:

http://www.hollywoodfoundry.com/shopdisplayproducts.asp?id=10&cat=BullAnt+Drive+Mechanisms

{FYI, something’s different with cutting and pasting on the Forum with Firefox today, so something’s changed, YMMV}

The BullAnt comes highly recommended. I’m planning a HOn3 railcar using one for the drive, doubt it needs two powered trucks from what I hear. [;)]

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Here’s a couple of traction sites you might want to check out:

http://www.customtraxx.com/

http://www.eastpenn.org/

Customtraxx is on the West Coast, East Penn in the east.

Customtraxx has parts, etc. and East Penn is more geared toward modelers and has links to a number of manufacturers and other modeling info as well as links to prototype info.

Eric