Switching back to high rail trucks for 70 ft. passenger car (Premier)

You could remove the scale two rail wheel sets, install three rail hi-rail wheel sets and run a wire from the dome car's roller pickup wire to the appropriate wire in the observation car.  Another option is to buy a K-Line, MTH or Williams three rail passenger car for its trucks and use them but as you stated that may demand cosmetic surgery.    John in Lansing, ILL

Thanks, any idea where I might buy just an MTH passenger car coupler and affix it to the car body the way the Kadee couplers are attached?  It wouldn't actually have to work with a spring, could be glued shut--any time I wanted to uncouple it I would just lift the car off the one in front of it.  Seems MTH sells freight trucks but I've been unable to locate a "passenger" truck on their product locator pages.

Might anyone who converted their 18 inch Premiere passenger cars to 2-rail still have their high rail passenger trucks (silver) and be willing to sell them? (or should I post that question as a separate post entry?)

Thanks

Abuelo Gauge    we offer a dummy 3 rail coupler as well as a dummy 2 rail coupler. here are the links:

3 rail http://scalecitydesigns.com/48...-keil-line-walthers/

2 rail: http://scalecitydesigns.com/48...ssenger-freight-car/

Thanks, Scalecitydesigns! 

I'll see about ordering one or both of those.  Do you know what the shank lengths are (mm or in) for both types?

Would these AtlasO trucks work?

I bought a pair to upgrade a baggage car that had the older non-sprung trucks (and am aware that some modifications to the frame may be necessary)

---PCJ

Scale City Designs posted:

Abuelo Gauge    we offer a dummy 3 rail coupler as well as a dummy 2 rail coupler. here are the links:

3 rail http://scalecitydesigns.com/48...-keil-line-walthers/

2 rail: http://scalecitydesigns.com/48...ssenger-freight-car/

I use the 3 rail units on some of my scratch built cars....work well with lobsters!

Thanks, AMCDave

Check eBay for the trucks; trucks and such are common there. Typically, the 2- and 3-rail trucks from the same brand are versions of each other and share many parts. Compare the 2-rail with your 3-rail cars from the set, this will give you info on what you need, possibly to adapt the 2-rail to 3-rail. Hi-Rail wheels are sold there, also. You may find a complete MTH car on eBay (etc) at a decent price that you could use as a truck source. If the trucks are black, well, silver paint is cheap.

Other brands can be used, too. 

Hey, all, came up with at least a temporary fix.  I raided a Lionel wheel carrier gondola for 4 high rail wheel sets, removed the scale couplers, ordered dummy couplers from Scale City Designs, raided the picture-hanging gadget box for something with a small screw, screwed the dummy coupler in place and voila, I can pull the observation car and the car ahead of it doesn't de-rail.  A little flat black paint will improved the look.  The separation between the last two cars does not perfectly match the other 3 couplings but, hey, I'm not being too fussy at this point.  Glad that I got that observation car from eBay when I saw it--who knows when a solitary UP MTH Premier observation car like this would come up for sale again?  I certainly didn't see any at York.  Thanks to all responders for the help and suggestions.  Great forum with so much knowledge out there.  Cheers.

PS, I'll try to post a short video of the train in action

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