Trucks for Late 19th-century HO scale Rolling Stock
Bitter Creek Models has 4-hole swing motion trucks, Canda trucks, 5' arch bar trucks and plenty of other goodies
Trout Creek Engineering has Thielsen 4'6" wheelbase swing motion trucks and old-style wooden rolling stock kits
Bethlehem Car Works has 4'9" arch bar trucks, Fox pressed steel trucks, and many others
Rio Grande Models
has a 5' CP-style Thielsen truck, plus several narrow gauge trucks
which, when equipped with
standard gauge bolsters, are the
best option for some of the cars depicted on these pages
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 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
