Now that we have our Forneys and some pulpwood cars, does Bachmann plan to release any of the existing freight and pass cars with SR&RL lettering? 

Also, does any one know of a source for SR&RL decals or transfers so that we can re-letter some existing cars?  It seems like the SR&RL freight cars usually just had the initials which we could do with generic dry transfers, but it would be nice to find a set for the passenger cars with Sandy River & Rangely Lakes written out and a herald.  I tried some of the obvious on-line sources with no luck.

I would like to revisit the changes in the Bachmann car heights, couplers, trucks - I had seen references previously to new lowered cars accomodating center shank couplers, either indicating that the old cars had been re-issued with new trucks with the reduced bolster spacer boss on the original trucks, or that the new cars had different frames to accomplish the lowering.  I had not bought or seen the lowered cars and there seemed to be some confusion over how one would know which a new purchase would be.

Recently I bought a few pulpwood cars to go with the Forney and found both changed coupler box and bolster detail, and a new low archbar truck.  I do like the new look, although something targetting a 2' foot prototype seemed to be the wrong place to introduce what appear to be 3' sideframes with spacers to allow the 31" wheels.  I know this would be easier to convert to On3, but this would seem to be a less attractive compromise for 2 foot gage, and it takes away some of the "hunkered down" look that has to do with how far the truck is tucked underneath, not just how low the car is. 

I tried swapping the trucks onto an older car, and there are some issues with bolster height and boss diameter / spacers - its not a straight swap.

My questions are two:

Are the new cars of other types now coming with the same modified frame and low truck as the Pulpwood, or are they just the old tooling with reduced truck bolster thickness?

There was a previous question as to whether we might be able to buy a replacement frame and trucks to convert cars to lower the cars, whether this woud match the Pulpwood car or not - any further news?

I see on the NWSL numbers 37891-4 and 37892-4 for 24" and 26" replacement wheels for Grandt Line On3 to On30 conversions -- are these the right ones, and which might be a better choice for the C&S bobber?

Also, is there an on line hobby store that stocks these details or do I need to go direct to NWSL?  I checked some obvious ones including Walthers, and they don't have these listed, and Walthers is my local hobby shop distributor too.  Typically for a small item like this I might wait until I need to order a few other things that would make the shipping more worthwhile.