Has anyone lowered the height of Weaver 50’ Piggyback flatcars?

I have these cars; I have not investigated lowering them, but the Lionel does indeed look more realistic.

The Weaver 3RO coupler shank can cause the high-pockets look on many Weaver pieces, as Weaver RS/truck architecture is really a 2RO design - the 3RO coupler shank is a bit of an intruder.

- Get some Lionel or even MTH trucks (or even old 60's Atlas plastic trucks) with lower bolsters; mounting these on the Weaver car is not hard, but can take some "model railroading". I've done it here and there.

- Can the car bolster be raised (cut down) to allow the car to sit lower on the Weaver trucks? I've also done this at various times on various cars.

- Be careful of the mounting screw, as this is a flat car and you can't hide a long screw as you could in a boxcar.

One solution is to remove the coupler and find another that mounts directly to the body away from the bolster. With the truck mounted directly to frame the height will be close to the same as the Lionel flat.

Pete

Just to see how it looked, I removed the under frame and re attached the trucks without it.

The issue this created is that the coupler now sits inside of the opening for a scale coupled.

im thinking I could just cut that opening wider like on the Lionel car.

I like the idea here as those are some of my favorite cars.  The Lionel ones also are really nice.  And I think scale couplers would look tremendous on them both.  Can the Lionel cars be fitted with Kadees?

Both cars can be easily fitted with Kadee couplers. Although that would be the easiest fix I really don’t want to get into swapping to scale couplers 

Greg, besides the lowering effect can you tell the underframe is missing, lack of details that are obvious while the car sits on the rails?  Widening the coupler pocket would be a way to go, however it looks as if the brake wheel would be lost.