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Chopped!

For some time I have thought the Lionel Portal Gantry Crane is too tall. An aesthetic thing, if you will. Anyways, I decided to fix that so I went to work.

Working with spare crane legs, with an Xacto saw I cut a piece out of each leg and glued the wheel-housings back on with cyanoacrylate (that stuff is like magic ).

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Reassembled it looks like this:

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I like the effect.

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Functionally nothing has changed, of course.

Next will be doing something about that ridiculously out-of-scale cab. I'm thinking about cannibalizing A Lionel NW2 switcher cab.

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