> > if the hopper is only available with hi rail flanges, is there something
> > unique about the trucks that prevents a modeler from simply replacing the
> > wheels? Or the trucks?
> Should be a piece of cake. O scalers do it all the time with Lionel O
> cars.....DaveBranum
At O SCALE WEST last year, I saw two vendors whose primary products were Lionel
freight cars stacked up high. I was rather surprised at the height of the
stack and asked about it. Turns out the products were in Lionel boxes, but
were not pure Lionel. It was a Lionel body with ATLAS O trucks attached. The
fellow told me that Lionel trucks sometimes fall apart after some use and have
a bad reputation. The ATLAS O trucks had a good reputation. Seems like quite
a few of the O fellows preferred buying a product with the trucks already
"switched" instead of doing the switching themselves. Perhaps we have another
budding busiess opportunity here for an S fellow. Cheers...Ed L.
PS: At least one Lionel catalog says the cylindrical hopper will come with S
scale wheels. Keep your fingers crossed.
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