New York Central Passenger Car Help

After you remove the screws on the bottom of the car, grab each end of the car and carefully twist...The roof should pop right off.

http://www.mthtrains.com/sites...tion/30rtr10524i.pdf

Look on Pg 14...These are the same cars I believe.

Chuck, this was good info, but I unscrewed the 2 screws closest to the coupler and then tried the twist.  I broke the plastic slightly.

 

Then, I looked at page 14 closely and there are 2 recessed holes that contain 2 phillips head screws inboard of the other 2 screws.  I removed those and the top gently popped off.

 

Live and Learn!

 

Another question though.  I bought this set with 4 cars and also 2 extra cars.  When running with all 6 the engine spins its wheels on certain parts of my layout which is mostly very flat.  I removed 2 cars and it performed better.  

 

Any experience with that?

 

Thanks again,

San Diego Frank

Addendum:

 

I cleaned the track, oiled and lubed the engine, cleaned and inspected the rubber wheels.

 

Still had slipping with all 6 on the track.

 

San Diego Frank

Can't help you with the wheel slipping.  Sorry you had the wrong screws loosened...live and learn...so true!

San Diego Frank

In my experience with wheel slipping on my mth subway trains with 6 to 8 cars I changed out the traction tires to the lionel type. It can pull all eight subway cars with no problem. I did clean the track and lube the wheel sets and still had the slipping. That's when I changed them to the lionel tire and all works great. I hope this will help you.

Glenn

I agree Glenn the lionel traction tires are much better "... Yes, it is that big!..."