Would anyone know whose 3-rail trucks (Atlas / Weaver) could be readily installed on a "RED CABOOSE / Nickel Plate Models"
refrigerator car in order to convert it from 2-rail ?
Thank you.
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Any trucks are "readily installed". Just use spacers so everything clears.
but it will look funny - consider buying a 3-rail car, and decal it to suit. It will look a lot better, since the floorboards are cut out to accommodate the non-scale truck and coupler apparatus.
"but it will look funny - consider buying a 3-rail car, and decal it to suit. It will look a lot better, since the floorboards are cut out to accommodate the non-scale truck and coupler apparatus."
It might be easier to cut out the floor boards for flange clearance than to decal a car. Depends on what tools and experience one has. ......DaveB
If you cut the floorboards on an Intermountain car, there will be little structure left. These are very thin plastic models, and properly built they should stay in a display cabinet.
Decals are simply the easiest thing to do in the model hobbies - we were doing them on the old Strombecker models in the fourth grade, with very good results. Now the challenge is not applying them, but buying them. Nobody makes O Scale decals any more - you special order them from cottage industries. Ten bucks plus postage, unless you want original art.
I took a photo of the top car, mailed it to my decal supplier, and he sent back decals for the lower car. Cost $25 plus shipping, but I did two cars with what he sent, and if I want more, he sends more sheets at ten bucks each.
