Hello All,
Has anyone tried to swap a Lionel shell (scale) from a Legacy to a TMCC1 engine? Since the Legacy engines come with multiple roadnames/roadnumbers its much easier to have a two or three engine consist.
Thanks!
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Hello All,
Has anyone tried to swap a Lionel shell (scale) from a Legacy to a TMCC1 engine? Since the Legacy engines come with multiple roadnames/roadnumbers its much easier to have a two or three engine consist.
Thanks!
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Anyone? Or am I the only crazy one here?
Apparently, you're the only crazy one.
About the only experience I have along those lines is trying to swap a Lionel GG1 shell onto RMT and Bachmann Williams frames, which don't work any too good. I should imagine that as long as the mounting screw holes match up, it should work, though...
Mitch
gunrunnerjohn posted:Apparently, you're the only crazy one.
I guess everyone wants all the legacy stuff!
I really like those hi hood N&W GP30's, that's what I was thinking of swapping onto a TMCC chassis
Well, cannibalizing a Legacy locomotive to make a TMCC one seems somewhat backwards...
Not buying the whole loco, I can get just the shell from Lionel.
Never tried it myself, but I suspect that some would drop on pretty easy, and others might be more of a PITA. I'd take it on a case-by-case basis.
I have two different types of GP/9/20's that mounts two ways between the shell and the frame. The older GP7/9/20 shells have a mounting hole in each end of the hood, so that screw into a metal blade on the frame. The new GP7/9/20 shells have 4 mounting holes on the bottom of the shell and 4 holes that match up in the metal frame. I do not know how the new "scale" GP7/9's mate to the frame, but I would think it would be like the newer GP7/9's with out holes in each end of the shell.
All the loco's in the pictures have different shells than what came with the frame,
Lionel SW/GP hood on K-Line MP frame:
Lionel shell to Lionel frame:
Thanks for the replies guys. I will report back with what I find!
Thanks!
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