Devon, those look good. If I may make suggestion, look at Bob’s photo, see the lip around the openings in the side frame, you might want to consider adding that to your design to add to the realism of the truck. Not at all necessary, but I think it makes the entire truck more believable. Just my 2 cents.
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Good call, I like that also. Here it is included in the design. Hard to see but it is there and looks much better.
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Cool stuff. If Rodney was still around, I’d recommend talking with him - he got the masters from somewhere, but his trucks were awesome!
Yep, that looks much better, Devon.
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The biggest thing with this project is a repeatable 3D printable design that I can print easily and make several copies at will. With the one piece design and if it prints nice then when I start making the fleet of log cars I can print them at will. I am thinking this design will do that.
I’d was never about a rivet counting model. Just something to easily build a fleet of about 10 to 15 of my log cars.
In addition to the trucks, I already have the bunks designed, and the basic brake mechanicals done. Craig, has talked me into a master car then casting them in resin. Once I get a mold for that then I should be able to spit this out relatively fast as they are a very basic design.
that last picture of the truck looks great, Devon… 
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Looking good, Devon. You DO remember the hole in the head thing, right? 
Thats why the ideas flow so well. Right out the hole
You do know that I would mail you a USAT truck for you to cast, right?
This is easier than casting. You’ll understand
I just think you like procrastinating on a project now that you’re a grandpa… 
He ducks for cover as Devon throws stuff at me.
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Just send him so pastries, Craig, and he will stop Devoning??
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Maybe it’s the opposite problem. He hasn’t had a tasty treat from me in a while. Ironically we tried meeting up this last summer when I was in Spokane for a week. And then it didn’t work out for both of us. Between Devon and my sister I wouldn’t have too much of trouble moving to the eastside of the state if I had too. My sister keeps trying to make me buy a house by her that has an old abandoned ride on train.
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So, you want Devon to STOP Devoning? (What’s up with THAT? )
He needs to clear out his backlog of builds, so he can Devon on new stuff. All the old Devoning stuff is just sitting around waiting to be finished or probably mailed
Funny you mention this. I am in the process of Devoning a rolling cart that will be the “Cart of Shame” that will hold all my unfinished projects out in the open so they can look at me with their pitiful eyes and beg to be finished. I have resolved to clear out the current “Box of Shame”. And while I would be lying if I said I won’t start a new project before finishing the old ones, I am currently working on two of those pitiful orphans. One is a secret project I started a year ago that is seeing some rapid progress and then the STMA chop nose GP9 is seeing progress as well.
And on another note, after those two are finished then I think I am going to break out the shelf queen 2-6-0 that was my introduction to LSC but that I could never get to run right, and with the aid of 3D printing giver her a new properly aligned chassis. I was lookng at it the other day and I am positive with the aid of my new 3D printing skills can rebuild the chassis to much better tolerances and that will keep the drivers from wanting to reverse. That is the only issue with her. The existing cobbled together front frame section was just to sloppy and imprecise and it was not keeping the front driver properly quartered and it wanted to try and reverse. I think I can print an entire motor block/chassis using the Bachmann motor and drivers and then print some better one piece side rods and fix the entire problem. So you may see that back on the table very soon.
Cool. Sometimes it just takes time 
to figure out a way to proceed - or you need to let technology catch up, or you just need to develop new skills.
Don’t worry about the old projects unless you now have a way to complete them easily. 
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Well some may just die. Some were just not working out and need to be abandon. My little compressed air loco might end up that way.
Yep, when you first start a project it sure seems OK, but often as you get deeper into it, it turns into not such a good idea and NOT worth putting any more time into it; nothing wrong with abandonment - ESPECIALLY if you can use the parts that you have in the NEXT project!
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Do not discard the CA locomotive, you can use it as a deadline about to be sent for scrap or as a display in a park type. Or toss it in a stream bed as a oops they never bothered to pull out of the canyon type of thing
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