at the moment they are just packaged goods. I think we are still a ways off from making enough to make them standard equipment. Joe
Axle on Micro Trains cars is .540 The new MT wheelsets have plastic axles, I will stick with Fox Valley metal wheels, .540 for MT cars.
Has anyone tried these and if so how are they? I’ve used FVM and Intermountain metal wheels but they are hard to find right now. Was curious to see how the MT metal ones stack up. Thanks Steve Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
I haven't needed wheels for a few months so I haven't tried the MTLs yet. I believe they have a solid plastic axle (instead of a metal axle with an insulator on one side like FVM).
I haven't jumped on the switching to metal wheel band wagon just yet but I've been thinking about it and this might the wheels to try first since the majority of my fleet has M/T trucks and plastic M/T wheels
I have only a few metal wheeled cars, bought decades ago. They sound cool rolling around the layout, clicking at rail joints. I'd like to add metal wheels to more cars. Thanks M-T!
Interesting that they have plastic axles. Does that make them run with less friction in the plastic truck frames (compared to a metal axle on plastic frames)? The down-side is that they can't be used for track power pick-up unless you use high-friction wheel wipers. So, I am guessing that MTL is going for the asthetics market, and perhaps the really long freight trains market, if the friction reduction is real.
I've been slowly upgrading my cars with Fox Valley wheel sets. I needed low-profile wheels and originally used MT's for their cars, but I like the look of the metal wheels. More prototypical IMO. The BLMA wheels looked better in the pictures I've seen, but they seem to be unavailable since Atlas took them over..
