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I’ve spent most of April working on a Proto48 conversions to a couple of Atlas Box Cars. Both cars were 3 Rail O scale. I updated them both to Protocraft P48 trucks and Kadee O scale couplers.
Atlas O Master 53’ Evans Box Car
This car is ready for service. My first conversion. It was pretty rocky getting to this point, with lots of mistakes and lots of lessons learned. I’m looking forward to improving my skills with future conversions.
Does this mean The Industrial Lead is changing scales? Seeing P:48 here piqued my interest as that’s what I’m (slowly) modeling in as well.
Hi Rich,
Thanks for following my blog and thanks for commenting.
The Industrial Lead will stay HO. I’m close to finished, just need 2 more buildings and a little more scenery. As I’m nearing completion I keep thinking about what the next project will be. I’m leaning toward a p48 exhibition layout.
The heft of O scale really gets me excited, the visible details, the weight of the equipment, and the depth of the sound. So I’ve dabbled in p48 over the years, building a section of track, an almost completed turnout and a simple replace the axles locomotive conversion. These are the first cars I’ve converted.
P48 has been a real quest for information (and parts). I’m keeping a separate blog roll for p48 and 2 rail O scale and I comb those blogs for information. I spend a lot of time reading through the old posts at https://groups.io/g/proto48. And I’ve found a lot of useful information on the OGR forum
I think if more of us make the jump from dabbling to modeling and sharing our experience, the better it will be for p48.
Greg