"Correct" trucks for PM Coaches

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I'm trying to create a passable model of the "original" Powhatan Arrow in  
which the coaches and lounge car were refurbished/modified 1941-era PM  
cars.  The issue I'm running into is that the PMs were built with, and in  this 
service ran with, 41-HR trucks, with "automotive" snubbers and an "early  
style" Hyatt bearing housing.  
 
The 41-HR truck is hard to find in HO.  Walthers has used it, and  it's in 
their catalog, but it's back-ordered with "unknown" availability.   Also, 
the Walthers truck has rotary snubbers and a different bearing  housing.  
There are a couple of very nice brass 41-HR trucks  available, but their pricing 
for a pair of trucks gives big-time pause,  especially when you want six 
cars' worth.  And, they all appear to use the  newer Hyatt bearing housing 
rather than the version on the PMs.
 
Train Station Products advertises a detail set consisting of rotary  
snubbers and Hyatt bearing housings, but Walthers doesn't stock it and I can't  
find a picture anywhere, so I don't know which version Hyatt bearing housings  
are in the set.  The snubbers aren't an issue, because I'd just modify the  
bearing housings on some Walthers/Rapido/IHC 41-N-11 trucks, all of which 
have  automotive (piston) snubbers.
 
I know this is getting pretty deep into "accuracy overkill", because about  
999 out of 1000 people wouldn't know a 41-HR from a 41-N-11 (used on the 
1949  Arrow and the Budd sleepers) if they walked up and shook hands, but I 
do, and it  matters to me.
 
Has anyone solved this problem?  How?
 
Many thanks in advance,
 
Dave Phelps
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