Terry A de C Foley said:
Just one question - where are you going to get hold of standard gauge trucks?Over here the Gauge Three society has British-style trucks to suit the 64-ish mm track, but you are proposing standard gauge based on 1/20.3, are you not? 70.7mm gauge track?
tac
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Don Niday
Hello
My name is Don Niday. I just renewed myself here this evening.
My friend Rick Golding e-mailed me and wanted to know if’n I was reading this here post about SG 1:20.3 Flatcars and Trucks for them.
Well I am now.
Yes, I’m still in business, and Yes, I still do projects with or without Mr. Queener and several others too.
I do have and make SG trucks to order. I have a Bettendorf truck right now. I carry SG wheelsets in stock. I have them with 33" and 36" sizes offered in steel or steel plated if you don’t like that natural rusting look.
I also offer around 80 other items as well.
Since I’m back, I’ll try and frequent the site here more regularly.
You can reach me on my cell phone during the day 9am to 6pm EST @ (865) 389-2416.
or E-mail @ [email protected]
Thanks
Don
Thanks Don.
I must say that was a fairly timely response. 
Of course, they (whom ever “they are”) say timing is everything. 
Well Sir,
Thanks for the timely notice, too!
I actually had run out of the 33" steel wheelsets recently, (the most popular) but I just received a new batch last week. So I’m IN -stock again.
I don’t have internet access during the day at the construction site, so when I DO get home I always try to check the mail and that is what I was doing when I came across yours tonight.
Peace
Don
Ric Golding said:
Thanks Don.I must say that was a fairly timely response.
Of course, they (whom ever “they are”) say timing is everything.
Ric Golding said:Terry A de C Foley said:
Just one question - where are you going to get hold of standard gauge trucks?Over here the Gauge Three society has British-style trucks to suit the 64-ish mm track, but you are proposing standard gauge based on 1/20.3, are you not? 70.7mm gauge track?
tac
www.ovgrs.org
The Iron Creek ShopsDon Niday
tac
www.ovgrs.org
Thanks Ric. I’ll be doing some reading today.
I’ve never tried building rolling stock and this would be a good place to start.
One of our club members just finished a caboose with fully detailed interior. Good motivation!
Hi Ric and other Forum Readers,
Wow–I am so impressed that you actually remember my wife putting together the first F scale flat that we built at the 2001 NMRA convention in St. Louis!
Well, I have created a page and nearly completed it on my own website about building standard gauge flat cars and other such animals in 1:20.3–along with a page on building Gauge 3 cars as well. You can access it here:
http://www.cumberlandmodelengineering.com/Dave’sFreightCars.html
I should get this page finished some time today.
Cheers!
Dave
Dave,
My wife, Jan, is very active in the hobby, probably more than most women. Though I’ve been a model railroader for better than 50 years, the garden railroad has brought Jan into the hobby where she wasn’t in the smaller scales. It is one of the reasons I feel I can stay so active in the hobby. We have a great deal of friends, fun and much of our social entertainment revolving around the garden railroad crowd and those we meet messing with trains.
There were a lot of people at that convention in St. Louis in 2001, but I don’t think any of them were having as much fun as you guys were. By your wife’s participation in such a modeler’s venue of building a car while the show was going on, she showed it can be truely a couple’s or family’s hobby. I am aware she may have been bored to death and just trying to make the time go faster, but she faked it well.
Hope to see you guys again when the show comes this way and we plan to be in Hickory, NC.
Hey Ric,
Yes, thanks for the viable link–not sure what went wrong on cutting and pasting to my freight car page.
Anyway, I did finish the update on my standard gauge freight car projects. Check it out under Dave’s Freight Cars!
So who wants to build a 1:20.3 SG flat car?
All for now,
Dave
Very nice site David. Thanks for updating the page.
I’ve had plans to build one or two Std. Gauge flats in F for a while, but never progressed beyond purchase of kit bash fodder. In my case, I would be running them on narrow gauge trucks behind an Fn3 loco like the EBT did. Someday, perhaps 20 years from now, I’d like to build the EBT Timber Transfer. If I do, I’d then need dual gauge track and the standard gauge trucks so they could be swapped under the crane 