@AGHRMatt posted:I definitely like the MTH Center Beam cars. The initial runs of these cars are the 73-foot prototypes, but were set up like the 63-foot cars. So the trucks were in the wrong place. Converting them involved mounting the trucks in line with the jack pads, notching the end sill and installing Kadees. The later cars had the trucks in the right place and included Kadee mounts. I've done six so far in loaded/empty configurations. Here they are running at the club (yes, it's a three-rail club, but the locomotive goes both ways).
Now all you have to do is reduce the side sills by about a third and they will be really nice. I have not done that successfully yet. And then remove that wrong under beam.
