I have now 2 Aristo box cars, and they both have plastic wheels and Aristo couplers. Since the Aristo couplers do not play well with the USAT truck mount couplers on other cars and on my USAT locomotive ( no I don’t mean my loco has truck mounts), What would be the best way to replace the wheels and couplerS? Would it be easier to get some USAT trucks with couplers or should I start convert the 2 Aristo’s to body mounts? Begin the switch everything to Kadees now? Looking for ideas, thoughts and suggestions, besides the sell me the 2 Aristo’s. If nothing else I would like to switch to metal wheels, since I live in AZ and the plastic ones would probably melt to the track in mid summer.
USA 50’ boxcar on the left, Aristo boxcar on the right, obvious problems #1 USA coupler droop, any quick fix for that?
#2 Mismatched size and heights, first non flat area will have un-coupling problems. The actual bodies look to line up well if I decide to make a switch to Kadees. Which Kadee coupler works best, I hve seen here where the #1 coupler looks more to scale.