I don't want to mess up the nice thread on ' Show Me Your N Scale Switchers' so thought I'd ask in a separate one. Do you have any more pictures or info on ... I see where Randy on here makes a conversion using a Tomytec powered chassis ... https://www.trainboard.com/highball/index.php?threads/the-powered-cheater-boxcar-project.30589/ Thanks, Sumner
Mine are all the same: an Atlas fifty foot boxcar jammed onto a LL FA-1 chassis. Mine are short on appearance but long on performance. Those LL metal frame chassis are hard to beat for reliability. Here is another powered Atlas fifty foot boxcar with a Lima Reading Q-1b. Those things had these horrible pancake motors. This one fried its. All of them are the same. I did add a post on either end to which I screwed a MT 1015. As the end of the boxcar braces against the pulling, I had no qualms about gluing them to the boxcar ends. First, the underside of the car: Now, the disassembled shell and power chassis: As you can see, I did have to trim the sill under the doors to accommodate the power chassis trucks. These things are operating mostly on industrial trackage, which means sharp curves. Here is the inside of the car. The silver paint was to identify where the nubs on the power chassis pressed up against the sides of the boxcar. This allowed me to hollow out some indentations to accommodate those nubs. You can see the posts on each and and the coupler screwed to them. I made the posts out of Evergreen styrene pieces. These cheater boxcars may be short on appearance but they are long on performance. Randy's cars look far better than do mine.
