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Reply to "Lionel Postwar Caboose/Authentication Question"

It isn't hard to swap trucks, but if you buy new trucks, plan on swapping both so they match nice.  And watch that your new coupler shank lengths are correct. Too long a shank and it will look funny with too much space between cars.

  The heights vary a bit as well.  They will couple fine; but it may sit a bit higher or lower.   (Shim with a wide washer or two if too low to function; but fyi, the scale folk are always lowering cars as most "sit too high".)

Trucks are attached by a post on the truck and horseshoe clip (a kind of C clip you squeeze closed) OR connected by a rivet, which you drill or grind out.  (washers, nut & bolt work too )

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