@AGHRMatt posted:Is that your video? If so, can you E-mail me a photo of the bottom of the converted center beam car. I've converted four of them and would prefer to just modify the MTH trucks with Intermountain wheels rather than fabricate new bolsters and use Weaver trucks. Thanks.
By the way, like your list. I occasionally see the UP/ARMN reefers (BNSF also has some) and at 82 feet, the the largest ones are huge.
It is indeed my video, taken on my 17ft x 8ft layout.
There's not much to show on the underside of my MTH centerbeam, to be honest. It's a very rough'n'ready conversion - I chop off the MTH bolster, and open the mounting hole out, to 4mm dia. I think, then use a nut and bolt to fit the Atlas trucks, with a small washer to fill the Atlas mounting hole. As Atlas trucks have a tall center boss removing the car bolster keeps the ride height about right.
That brown one is the later version with trucks in the right location. The green one that brings up the rear in that video is an older one with the trucks right at the ends of the car. It still has MTH 2-rail trucks, but when I finally get round to relocating the trucks to the correct place I also intend to modify the underframe to remove the unprototypical big channel section MTH use.
I use Atlas trucks when I can as I like the rotating bearing caps.
