Bachmann Re Tooled Amfleet Cars
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Wish I could be of some help but I haven't had any experiance with amfleet cars. Surely someone here has.
SeanNEC:
Unfortunately, you will have to do surgery to get rid of the Rapidos. Someone at the Atlas forum did exactly that: http://forum.atlasrr.com/forum/topic.asp?ARCHIVE=true&TOPIC_ID=23317&SearchTerms=amfleet
At least it sounds relatively straightfoward.
Now if you want a real challenge, try kitbashing a P32AC-DM out of that Kato P42!
Hope this helps!
Unfortunately, you will have to do surgery to get rid of the Rapidos. Someone at the Atlas forum did exactly that: http://forum.atlasrr.com/forum/topic.asp?ARCHIVE=true&TOPIC_ID=23317&SearchTerms=amfleet
At least it sounds relatively straightfoward.
Now if you want a real challenge, try kitbashing a P32AC-DM out of that Kato P42!
Hope this helps!
I used some MicroTrain couplers (1133's I think) and removed the rapido couplers. You can buy a truck with a MicroTrain coupler that is a 4 or 6 wheel exact fit for the Bachmann Amtrak pax cars too. You can visit the MicroTrain web site for a conversion excel spreadsheet and find exactly which car you have and what truck/coupler conversion kit you need. I don't know their website address (probably microtrains.com but I'm not sure) but you can visit www.nscalesupply.com and use the Microtrain link in the Catalog section.
I have 6 Amfleet cars which run as a unit. I put a MT 1015 body mount on each end of the set to couple to my Life Like F40PH. This requires a bit of surgery to remove the mount for the Rapido.
I kept the Rapidos within the set, but replaced the long shank couplers with short shank ones off some Bachmann freight car trucks. Not very close coupled but closer than they were.
I did think of putting MT Commonwealth passenger trucks on the cars but the distinctive Budd inside frame trucks are part of the appeal of the prototype.
On the down side, the Bachmann trucks are pretty bad even for Bachmann. I only just tolerate them and they frequently derail. There is a challenge for MTL or any other innovative manufacturer to make a decent, free running replacement that still looks like the prototype.
Longer term I plan to try kitbashing some Amfleet cars into SPV2000s, but that's another story!
Cheers
David
I kept the Rapidos within the set, but replaced the long shank couplers with short shank ones off some Bachmann freight car trucks. Not very close coupled but closer than they were.
I did think of putting MT Commonwealth passenger trucks on the cars but the distinctive Budd inside frame trucks are part of the appeal of the prototype.
On the down side, the Bachmann trucks are pretty bad even for Bachmann. I only just tolerate them and they frequently derail. There is a challenge for MTL or any other innovative manufacturer to make a decent, free running replacement that still looks like the prototype.
Longer term I plan to try kitbashing some Amfleet cars into SPV2000s, but that's another story!
Cheers
David