Meadmaker posted:Have any of you gentlemen either contemplated or actually performed a swap of the high rail driver and truck wheels on the Lionel steam locomotives, such as the big boy, with scale drivers and trucks? I have been buying these legacy and vision line models but would like to consider swapping out those high rail wheel sets with scale wheels. Having an abundance of room, as the layout is being built in a large empty barn, I am planning at 84"-100"+ radii.
If you have accomplished this task in the past, can you recommend replacement wheels and provide any good pointers for the process? Thank you in advance for your input.
In my opinion, you would be much better off to send your model/models to Baldwin Forge & Machine, and have Joe convert it to 2-Rail operation.
