Re: (erielack) Riverossi Erie Lackawanna Passenger Car sets

["William E. Botkin" <"webotkin_@_ecentral.com">]

Jay-Bee makes couple conversion mounting pads for all the Rivarossi
1920/1930 passenger cars.  They mount the couplers to the body of the car
which is ideal if you have 30+ inch radius curves.  While they recommend
Kadee No.6 or 16's, I found the No.5's worked best for me.  The exception
was the 1930 baggage car which I used the recommended No.8.

They also make metal replacement wheel sets for the Rivarossi trucks which I
also have used for the 1920 cars, retaining the pin attachment which is
fine.

For the 1930 cars, I used the IHC replacement trucks which are very nice and
roll well.  IHC makes the bolster attachment which uses a tiny bolt/nut to
attach the trucks.

Jay-Bee is listed in the Walter's catalog, though I purchased directly from
Jay-Bee.  The instruction sheet ony lists an address:

P.O. Box 7031 Villa Park, IL 60181

Don't know if they have a web site.

Also, I highly recommend the American Limited diaphrams.  They are
excellent.

Of course none of these cars is quite right for DL&W, but they make good
stand-in's until plastic passenger car development reaches the state of box
cars (e.g., Red Caboose, P2K, Intermountain).  BTW, see the editorial in the
January MR - Andy Sperandeo is asking for input in a poll on which passenger
cars the MR community should encourage manufacturers to think about
producing.  Can't hurt to let our DL&W/Erie/EL biases know!

Bill Botkin
- -----Original Message-----
From: Michael T. Stipanovich <"duckman_@_coastalnet.com">
To: ErieLackawanna mailing list <"erielack_@_internexus.net">
Date: Saturday, December 25, 1999 8:30 PM
Subject: (erielack) Riverossi Erie Lackawanna Passenger Car sets


>Good Day Everyone,
>                               I just recently bought the Rivarossi Erie =
>Lackawanna Passenger Car Sets Era 1920's, product code #6930 A set, and =
>6931 B Set.  The detailing is very good, on the car bodies, and the =
>trucks, but the trucks construction I'm not very impressed with.  I =
>don't like  the fact that they just snap in place, vice screw in place, =
>and the coupling horns look like they will be a bear to change over to a =
>form of magnetic knuckle coupling system.  Are there any of you modelers =
>out there that knows if there are different/better trucks to use, or if =
>there is a specific company such as Kadee that has a specific numbered =
>coupler that will make a reasonably easy change over?
>Thanks=20
>Michael T. Stipanovich
>"duckman_@_coastalnet.com"
>
>
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