Will posted:JohnnieWalker posted:Will posted:JohnnieWalker posted:A MTH Standard gauge 514R car converted into a working automatic milk car . Still in the process of fine tuning it .
Pretty cool. I have been thinking about a similar project in O gauge. How did you fabricate the loading hatch? Do you have photos of the whole car?
Hi Will . Thanks for the compliment . I took photos along the way and they can be found on my thread here on the forum called Another Standard Gauge Project . I posted the project just this past Friday night . I hope this helps you and good luck.
Johnnie, I did check it out- Looks like a fun project. But the photos are very small so it's hard to make out some of the details.
I do have some questions. Are the mechanisms and doors from O gauge cars? To load the cans, I gather you have to take the roof off?
Thanks, Will
Hi Will. First off the Standard Gauge car I used is a MTH 514R refrigerator car . All the components are from Lionel automatic milk cars , the spring loaded doors are from a 3472 Automatic Refrigerated Milk Car. They were pretty much the same size doors that were on the 514R car. At first I used the mechanism out of the 3472 to throw the cans out but it was too unreliable , luckily for me I also had a # 36621 Automatic Refrigerator Milk Car on hand so I took the unloading mechanism out of it and installed it into the 514R car . All this was done so I could have an automated 500 series car . Just for your information, there are a few automatic milk cars out there to be had . I know of two from Lionel , the #s I mentioned above and I know of one from K-Line . If you you Google O gauge automatic milk cars you should come up with a few videos of the ones I mentioned above . There may be another , I don't know . I hope this is helpful to you and good luck with your project . Cheers .
