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50 Ton Bettendorf Freight Car Truck

Here are SolidWorks and IGS files for the freight car truck pictured at right. These files are already scaled to 1:20.32 with a 6% enlargement to account for mold shrinkage.

50 Ton Bettendorf Side Frame & Bolster (Winrar zipped files IGS)

50 Ton Bettendorf Side Frame (Winrar zipped SolidWorks file, self-extracting)

50 Ton Bettendorf Bolster (Winrar zipped SolidWorks file, self-extracting)

Drawings: Here are the prototype Southern Railway blueprints (PDFs and Bitmap) with Assembly drawings showing the general dimensions of the spring plank and brake rigging:

Side Frame    Bolster    Assembly 1    Assembly 2