MTH and Weaver E8

they should.

MTH has purchased several sets of diesel molds from Weaver (widely believed to include the SD40-2, U25B, and VO-1000). In the process of adapting them for their use, MTH sometimes alters the mounting arrangements. I have never tried to swap E-8 shells, but I did take apart Weaver and MTH VO-1000's to see if I could swap the shells. They did appear to be basically the same casting, but a couple of the mounting pillars had been changed and there were some other minor changes that would have made the swap a lot of work. I gave up. Hopefully you will have better luck with the E-8's, but I'm passing along my story as a cautionary note. 

So no one has ever tried it. I will have to get me a MTH E8 now so I can.

The WEAVER E-8's are good pulling engines.

I think the MTH E-8 B unit shell will fit the Weaver body, but the Weaver shell I believe is a bit to narrow to fit the MTH E-8 body.  I tried it with my Weaver Amtrak phase-2 B unit and the extra add on MTH Amtrak phase-1 E-8 B unit.  The only thing is that I would have to put the MTH trucks(one with the tether connection) on the Weaver E-8 Body and open up each end of the of the body(like MTH's) for the tether wire to run thru. 

Nice locos Charlie!

Are those upgraded with the Timko flywheel motors?

Chas

The E-0's have the original motors from Weaver.

Nice running E8's did you change them to run in series for the slow start?

Did MTH ever make a blackwidow E8?

I had hoped the someone had both the weaver and Mth e8's and could do a side by side comparison to see if the shells would fit on each other.

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