Best Of Lowering Cars

[bsoplinger]

Actually, those are the first airhoses I put on.  I "assumed" they would be on the right, due to the pressures of our "right-hand-side-oriented" society.

A bleeadin sheep led to slaughter!  :

Rise up, throw down the shackles of right hand side oriented society.

PS: The airhoses are on the wrong side 

[nscalesteve]

nice pictures Tom but something seems to be wrong, could it be that the air hoses are on the wrong side ? just curious...

[tom mann]

This thread is classic vintage Railwire. ;D

[wazzou]

Agreed.  I looked at one of the threads Mark mentioned I posted from the Atlas Forum and it was from 2004.  No wonder the pictures are gone.

[tom mann]

Man, I would kill to see those old threads.  They must be from around 2004...Sean could barely finish a Healthy Choice meal back then... ;D

[atsf_arizona]

Here's a web site that documents lowering the Micro-Trains 40' Hi-Cube, based on Tom Mann's original efforts and
I tried my best to follow his exalted example:





http://home.comcast.net/~j.sing/Lowering_N_scale_ATSF_Hi-Cube_Micro_Trains_boxcar.html

Hope that's helpful.

[basementcalling]

Yes, I know the airhoses are on the wrong side.

Those air hoses are correct, but the couplers are on the wrong sides. 

[ednadolski]

Are those air hoses still on the wrong side?

[bbussey]

The BLMA trucks, and the Atlas trucks with metal wheels on their most recently-tooled models (PS-1 boxcar, modern coil car, TOFC car, trash flatcar) make it much easier to lower equipment.  Regarding MTL couplers, fitting #2004 knuckles in a #2001 box (or #2019 knuckles in a #2016 box) helps with the coupler height.  The Barber S-2A trucks by Atlas are especially helpful in lowering transition era cars with 50-ton capacity.  They aren't available separately as of yet.  But with most PS-1 boxcars actually riding on ASF A-3 trucks, swapping in BLMA trucks on the Atlas PS-1 cars give you the surplus.