As Jack Benny often signed on in some years of his radio seasons, Jell-O Again!
Which participants in this board are, or might be interested in morphing & kitbashing Gilbert 3/16s O?
Here’s a list of what I’ve done over X years, NOT at the expense of engines & cars that were in nice condition except # 5 (photos to eventually follow)
1. replacing tinplate 565 tenders with die-cast units from 561s & 559s
2. removing nickel tires from the rear drive wheels of the spur
Hudson & Northern & replacing them with rubber tires
3. having rear drivers of worm Northerns machined for traction tires
4. installing 6 wheel passengert rucks on Northern tenders & mating them to
556s
5. converting a 4 car set of aluminum S 660 series streamlined cars to O with
2 axle trucks (necks of the couplers extended with additional chopped trucks)
6. replacing original worm motors with late S super motors in shells that
don’t require cutting…this is unfruitful IF traction tires are not also added
7. creating & expanding O versions of the S circus set
8. morphing 524s into observation cars: done only to two that each had