I have a MTH 20-67035 Full Length Vista Dome in Seaboard Air Line silver. I think it was new in 2003, wife "made" me buy it. Anyway, never have like the car as SAL NEVER had any dome cars that I know of and certainly not a full length dome.
I was going to sell it but then got thinking...There's a lot of parts on this car that could be used to build a car I want.
Not sure what type of trucks (MTH #DA0100005) those are, but they look good enough to reuse on a heavyweight I think, plus they're $25 each if bought separately, the entire car was only $70 new!!! Also, the thing is loaded with seats, I could probably outfit 2 other cars with the parts I can harvest (Weaver N&W passenger cars come to mind).
Not sure what else could be reused, maybe the diaphragms, and I could also try selling the shell and underframe/floor for cheap.
Being I run 2-rail using 3-rail trucks this would fit in with what I have.
I bet I don't have 2-3 hours run time on this thing since buying it in 2004 or so. Being it's not prototypically correct for SAL, I haven't given it the time of day even though I know it rides the rails just fine. I haven't even removed the center rollers (yet).
Has anybody else done something like this, hack a perfectly good running car to pieces to get parts to use for other projects?