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General Discussion => N and Z Scales => Topic started by: Puddington on December 30, 2010, 02:35:12 PM

Title: Wheel size for passenger cars
Post by: Puddington on December 30, 2010, 02:35:12 PM

What was the normal wheel size for both light and heavyweight passenger cars ? 33 " 36 "...?

Title: Re: Wheel size for passenger cars
Post by: wcfn100 on December 30, 2010, 02:49:38 PM

I looked through the 1940 and 1943 Car Builders books for early lightweight cars but there were no drawings with wheelsizes.  I would assume 36" unless you found otherwise.

All the drawings for the heavyweight cars had 36" wheels including a PRR baggage with 4 wheel trucks (if you wanted to use that as a gauge).


Jason

Title: Re: Wheel size for passenger cars
Post by: jmlaboda - RIP on December 30, 2010, 08:10:35 PM

The prototype used 36" wheels on passenger equipment.