I am looking to buy some MTH or Lionel Missouri Pacific heritage Rolling stock.
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I have several items that I would consider selling (or trading - 2R brass, BTS Creamery kit, etc):
I would be interested and like to see some pictures. Do you have the original couplers?
I do not have the original couplers - conversion back to claw couplers likely would require replacement of the entire truck. Easy enough to remove the Kadees - loosen two screws.
I will make some photos tonight and post them for you.
Another consideration - Kadee 805s couple mate fine with claw couplers. I run both on my 3RS layout - all engines still have the electrocouplers as do several other freight & psgr cars. I got the idea from Laidoffsick -he has avery nice video on YouTube describing this approach.
Here are images of the four cars available. Also captured an image of one of the Kadee conversions - you can see the truck mod - trucks modified with Dremel to remove couplers and accommodate Kadee draft boxes.
As to the psgr cars, I shortened the diaphragms for better appearance as they couple closer and I removed the standard MTH incandescent lighting and converted them to Evan Design LEDs (4 lights per car). I run these on O96 mainline curves (O72 in yards) without problem. I do NOT know how they will handle tighter curves.
I'd take $200 for the pair of psgr cars, $75 for the hi cube box and $$100 for the caboose. UPS Ground packing and shipping additional - actual costs (will estimate first, then refund any balance).