Swapping Lionel shells to others

Anyone? Or am I the only crazy one here?

Apparently, you're the only crazy one.

About the only experience I have along those lines is trying to swap a Lionel GG1 shell onto  RMT and Bachmann Williams frames, which don't work any too good.     I should imagine that as long as the mounting screw holes match up, it should work, though...

Mitch

gunrunnerjohn posted:

Apparently, you're the only crazy one.

I guess everyone wants all the legacy stuff!

I really like those hi hood N&W GP30's, that's what I was thinking of swapping onto a TMCC chassis 

Well, cannibalizing a Legacy locomotive to make a TMCC one seems somewhat backwards...

Not buying the whole loco, I can get just the shell from Lionel.

Never tried it myself, but I suspect that some would drop on pretty easy, and others might be more of a PITA.  I'd take it on a case-by-case basis.

 I have two different types of GP/9/20's that mounts two ways between the shell and the frame.  The older GP7/9/20 shells have a mounting hole in each end of the hood, so that screw into a metal blade on the frame. The new GP7/9/20 shells have 4 mounting holes on the bottom of the shell and 4 holes that match up in the metal frame.  I do not know how the new "scale" GP7/9's mate to the frame, but I would think it would be like the newer GP7/9's with out holes in each end of the shell.

All the loco's in the pictures have different shells than what came with the frame,

Lionel SW/GP hood on K-Line MP frame:

Lionel shell to Lionel frame:

Thanks for the replies guys. I will report back with what I find!

Thanks!