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Upgrading a Lionel Southern Dome Car
Posted: Sun Dec 10, 2023 10:00 pm
by DaveJfr0
I wrote up my notes on how I upgraded a Lionel plastic Vistavision dome car including adding Wasatch brass 41-CUDO trucks.
Hope you find it worth your time to read.
https://davejfr0.blogspot.com/2023/12/l ... -1613.html
Re: Upgrading a Lionel Southern Dome Car
Posted: Mon Dec 11, 2023 9:02 am
by sleepmac
Dave, very nice presentation on your blog.
Dan Weinhold
Re: Upgrading a Lionel Southern Dome Car
Posted: Mon Dec 11, 2023 10:13 am
by up148
Outstanding job Dave! It is all fantastic, but your paint and detail work is about the best I've seen. Great conversion.
Re: Upgrading a Lionel Southern Dome Car
Posted: Tue Dec 12, 2023 1:11 am
by De Bruin
Nice Dave! (as usual with all your project/blog subjects!)
Both of those former Wabash domes the CoG/Sou picked up from the N&W are hard ones to get an accurate example of. Yours looks really good and to me certainly the easier way to go than struggling with a Kemtron or the successor versions thereof. Very interesting as I have both that Kemtron ACF-plan version and an OK extruded P/S version, both are basket cases requiring a lot of "surgery" to get that lowered floor below the dome and window pattern correct .
Also can you post a good photo of the rear end(s) of the car body? (My biggest beef with Lionel.)
Great stuff!
Re: Upgrading a Lionel Southern Dome Car
Posted: Tue Dec 12, 2023 8:30 am
by 86TA355SR
Beautiful work and really enjoy your website, thanks for taking the time to create enjoyment for us.
Re: Upgrading a Lionel Southern Dome Car
Posted: Tue Dec 12, 2023 10:09 am
by E7
Great stuff as always! Thanks for your posts.