Small Lionel 027 plastic cabooses (circa 1979)....

Are you referring to the two-axle MPC bobber cabooses?

Skip......be careful the tabs will break..just ease them out slowly, you should be good....joe  

I had one of these apart just recently. Trying to remember...

I'm almost certain you have to first push the end platform out (away from the center of the car). There are thin tabs extending from the platform which (if I remember rightly) pass through a hole in the tab that projects out of the carbody and thru the caboose floor. The tabs holding the platform are black, and lay flat against the underside of the caboose floor, so they are easy to miss.

nickaix posted:

I had one of these apart just recently. Trying to remember...

I'm almost certain you have to first push the end platform out (away from the center of the car). There are thin tabs extending from the platform which (if I remember rightly) pass through a hole in the tab that projects out of the carbody and thru the caboose floor. The tabs holding the platform are black, and lay flat against the underside of the caboose floor, so they are easy to miss.

Thanks! You were absolutely right! Gently pulling out the lower end platforms sprung the body fairly easily from the plastic frame's floor...

Skip

Oh, and the reason I am taking the body off a small Lionel plastic caboose is to get at the frame's flooring so I can more easily remove the existing trucks and then attach Marx trucks with fork couplers. My resulting complete train will be double-headed RMT Atlantic Coast Line Beep locomotives, followed by a coupler transition car and then a good consist of Marx 3/16th's freight cars, tailed off by this modified Lionel ACL caboose. {-Which will make yet another beautiful, very small O (SmO) gauge train for my Marx 027 3-rail operation... ;>})

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