-Turning Locomotive Wheel Flanges
Locomotive wheel flanges can be turned on a faceplate. You can purchase blank end Morse taper arbors that fit into the headstock taper. Fit one of these and turn a spigot on it to take the wheel bore. The wheel bores should all be the same size,
but if they are different sizes machine the spigot to fit the largest bore, machine the flange on that one, then machine the spigot down to fit the next one, machine the flange and so on.
Ideally the wheel bores should all be the same size, but if they are not, proceed as follows. Skim the outside diameter of the wheel flange, measure and take it to the correct finished size. Move the lathe tool in by the depth of the flange and turn
the tread. Deal with all wheels like this, machining all of the flange outside diam- eter
