@Dave_C posted:Most that convert to Kadee’s or 2 rail are use to doing some work. As long as the mounts are present. You just get use to dealing with the trucks or switching out wheelsets. I wonder how many 2 railers bother buying the Lionel wheel conversion kit at about $20.00. The trucks easily come apart and most have a supply of Intermountain wheelsets to put in them. The new Lionel cars are 80 to $100.00. Add $25.00 onto that for their wheels and Kadee’s. Unless it’s a special car. You wonder how many 2 railers are going this route when Atlas already makes a take it out the box 2 rail version.
Unless its a specialty truck of some kind, a lot of Lionel cars are direct swaps to atlas trucks, which also lower the car. If its something Atlas doesnt make (and maybe the milk car trucks are in this group), then NWSL makes the appropriate axles for probably the same-ish price as the lionel kit, including the long axles for the rotating bearing cap trucks (but the atlas rolling cap trucks also work and the thin sideframe ones look nicer).
