John H posted:My experience is that Lionel and MTH trucks make the car sit too high, because the bolster is on the car and not the truck.
Depends on the era of the Lionel (and MTH, I guess) trucks, The modern (model era, not prototype), low-bolster Lionel die-cast trucks can actually sit lower than the Weaver 2/3-rail truck with the 3-rail coupler. Adapting these trucks - and others - can run from simple-stupid to annoying. (I like to convert 2-rail cars - especially brass or old cars - to 3RO; it's a punishment that I apparently think that I deserve.)
Using Weaver trucks/couplers/wheels to go to Hi-rail is the way to go on a Weaver car. They were engineered that way. Apparently the Lionscale trucks will drop in, per some here. Good. And an MTH product, too? Even better.
We need some definitive cross-references and sources; to paraphrase the X-Files: Weaver cars - they're out there.
