Probably because the frames are different lengths; SHS EMD trucks and Baldwin trucks should be the same, as it is the standard AAR switcher truck (also Alco S-3 and S-4 and Lima switchers). But until the Chinese situation is straightened out, I understand Jim King took all of the extra SHS trucks for his Fairbanks Morse kit (and still came up short).
Jace Kahn General Manager Ceres & Canisteo RR Co./Champlain County Traction Co. > To: [email protected] > From: [email protected] > Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2011 12:58:05 +0000 > Subject: RE: {S-Scale List} A-M Baldwin S-12 > > Dave, > > I found out from someone on the list how not to do it. I had inquired about > purchasing a shell for the S-12 from AM and the powered frame from S-Helper. > Someone more knowledgeable than I informed me that such an approach will not > work. The reason it will not work I have long since forgotten. I thought that > would be an easy fix, apparently a little too easy. > > Tom > ________________________________________ > From: [email protected] [[email protected]] on behalf of David > Engle [[email protected]] > Sent: Wednesday, June 29, 2011 8:53 AM > To: S-Scale Group > Subject: {S-Scale List} A-M Baldwin S-12 > > Has anyone tried installing the prototypically correct Type A switcher trucks > on a American Models Baldwin switcher? Did it make a motor change necessary? > How did you do it; any photos? DJE > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > ------------------------------------ > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > ------------------------------------ > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
