Reply to "Lowering Lionel F3s"

Ok, so after someone's email, I had to go and open up my NYC F3s and investigate if my aforementioned technique would work, and it did!

All I had to do is:

1. Remove the screws from the truck retaining ring
2. Drop the truck
3. Remove the steps from the truck (replace the removed screws with a 3mm flat machine screw instead of the removed pan head)
4. Re-insert the truck
5. Slide the lock washer in under the retaining ring
6. Re-insert the 3mm pan head screws

And voila! A lowered Lionel TMCC NYC F3, that now matches the height of Atlas F2... Here's some pics of it nose-to-nose with the Atlas, and back to back with the already lowered Lionel F3 B unit.

Thanks,

Mario