MT or Intermountain FT truck sideframes?

[coosvalley]

Does anyone here know if either the intermountain or MT FT sideframes are available , from any source?..I need some for a project...

[loyalton]

The go-to guys are the manufacturers -- have you contacted them yet? They've been helpful in the past in the search for parts.

MTL and I/M trucks are different for the FT. MTL has all four axles with rectangular bearing caps/journal boxes; I/M has one side of an axle on two trucks with the familiar exposed round roller bearing package. And the I/M trucks are by Atlas http://www.spookshow.net/imftab.html So there's another manufacturer that could help you out.

[CVSNE]

Intermountain uses Atlas trucks for the F3 and later units. The FTs had a unique Intermountain truck.
I believe Micro-Trains used the Atlas GP truck for it's FTs, but I'm not positive about that.

Marty

[coosvalley]

Here are the two sideframes, it is actually the journal boxes/bearings that I'm after, I didn't not expect the sideframes to work with my project(s), though that would be nice.....I see I need a set of both to get the correct parts... ..here's the proto..



The grey one is Intermountain, the black one is MT...