Any thoughts on this or has any one done this? I have taken the trucks off and examined and no obvious solution is presenting itself to me. I have modern lionel husky's which sit lower at a more prototypical height and want to mimic this.
Keep in mind I am not using any actual measurements to determine proper height, just going by actual pictures. The MTH units sit pretty high above the rail whereas the prototype 1:1 units sit very low over the rail.
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If anyone on the forum has done this it most likely would be Jeff Sohn.
These cars can be lowered significantly, and also articulated into 5-car sets. Here are a couple pics of an articulated car, part of a 5-car set, that started out as a husky stack single car. This involves cutting the inner portion of the end out of the car body itself, and replacing with a piece of Plastruct material to mount the truck to. It lowers the car to the correct height as shown.
Can you expand on what you did to actually lower the cars? Much appreciated. I am just not seeing an obvious way to do it.
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