Earlier this year I was given a box of old and broken Lionel stuff. Some of it is junk, but others could be saved with some work. One of them is an old metal bodied Madison passenger car. It's brown paint is pealing and flaking off, the fogged plastic over the windows warped and the trucks broken, missing axles, and are rusted. I can clean the body and repaint it and cut new windows at work. I'll also put LED lighting in it. But the trucks are another issue. I have a MTH Rugged Rails Madison coach, 33-6212 that I like, and actually plan to paint the old Lionel car to match so that I have another car for my mixed consist trains. The trucks on the MTH car are perfect for use on the Lionel car. They are not as short as the Lionel ones that were on the car, but they are shorter than those on my other MTH Madison car, 30-69039. Importantly though is that the truck mount to coupler distance is the same, but I can't figure out the part number of them. So can anyone help me figure out what I need to order to get 2 complete trucks; frame, wheels, couplers, and pickups. Or if someone has a set, that'd be grand too. Thanks.
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