• For scale, the bolsters are 8 inches in length; track gauge is 4-3/4 inches.
• Each truck weights approximately 8 pounds.
• The only castings used are the wheels, provided in rough form by a friend, and the pedestals, my first castings (in aluminum from a pattern I made).
• The journal boxes are built up from stock.
• The journal box lids are castings by Robert Dustin from my drawing. The font is as close as I could get to the original.
• The leaf springs are in phosphor bronze and the number and length were tested (carefully) using a press capable of 165,000 pounds of pressure.
• I used both blackening chemical and paint.
• The bolsters are a sandwich of oak (cut from flooring strips) and aluminum stock.

The completed truck.

Unpainted version.

For two trucks, here's what it takes!