Rio Grande Models has
a 5' CP-style Thielsen truck for our SP 28' boxcars and UP 34' boxcars,
as well as a stunning 4'4" narrow gauge arch bar truck
which (when equipped with standard gauge bolsters) is the
best option for some of our other cars. Plus D&RGW ditcher OX
trucks for your CM sliding door boxcars.
Kadee®makes the Code 88 ribbed-back 33" diameter freight car wheelsets that we put in trucks whenever we can.
BLMA Modelssells the .008" diameter grab irons that we like to use on our cars.
Other HO scale Car Manufacturers
Amesville Shops now offers resin kits for a 28' MKT gon and a 29' NYC&HR boxcar, and plans several other cars.
Bill's Train Shop has laser-cut wood kits for Civil War and 1870-era cars, a few of which survived into the 1890s.
Alkem Scale Models has laser-cut wood kits for Civil War-era rolling stock which survived into the 1890s in some cases.
Rio Grande Models has a nice wooden kit of a Central Pacific (also V&T) 28' ventilated boxcar with classic CP trucks.
ProtoWest Models has both an AT&SF Hanrahan Reefer (1892) and a Colorado Midland Hanrahan (1897) in resin.
1890s-era Layouts
Craig Bisgeier's 1892 Housatonic RR is based on a Connecticut prototype.