Garrett,
if you go with the HLW trucks, purchase the HLW wheel sets to go along with them.
I tried B-mann wheels on HLW trucks and found them unsatisfactory.
I ended up having to order a bunch of metal wheel sets from HLW to replace the
plastic ones that came on some of the HLW rolling stock I have.
The B-mann wheel set's worked quite satisfactorily on ellgeebee rolling stock, though.

Thank you for the reply.

What was the problem with the Bachmann wheels? My idea of using them was to lower the car by using the smaller diameter wheels. My big complaint with the two 1:24 D&RGW cabeese (this oen and the Delton caboose) is the both sit too high on their trucks.

If I remember correctly, the problem was that the B-mann axle's were slightly longer
and the HLW axle's were slightly larger in diameter. The combination of differences
did not allow for the wheels to turn freely. I suppose I could have drilled out
the trucks to accept the B-mann's, but HLW wheel sets were cheaper than B-mann,

It's actually fairly easy to take the axels from the Hartland plastic wheels and use them with the Bachmann metal wheels. Just takes a few minutes and a little patience to use a spare axel as a driver to remove the wheels and swap them. Done it several times with great success.