Grandt Line Box Cabs

[teejay]

Has anyone else built these ? I've always liked them and decided to build one motorized and one tag long that will be somewhat of a MOW rig . They don't run particularly well with the short wheel base especially through turnouts ....but it is running . Couplers , paint etc. is next .

[Tyson Rayles]

T if you use electro-frog turnouts they should go thru just fine. I can run 0-4-0's and 3 axle Plymouths thru my N scale turnouts with no problems.

[Mike Kieran]

Nice critters. I have Grandt Line's 25 tonner. Do they go through Atlas Turnouts?

[Mike Kieran]

Nice critters. I have Grandt Line's 25 tonner. Do they go through Atlas Turnouts?

[nachoman]

I've got two HOn3 versions. I had to wire them together in a permanent arrangement in order to have any kind of performance, which is still loud and not that great. Future plans may call for making a new mechanism from an N scale MDT switcher or other suitable N scale chassis. If I were doing standard gauge, I wonder if one of the trucks from the original spectrum (2 motor) 44 tonner would work.

[teejay]

I've got that 44 tonner ( HO ) with a N scale decoder in it .......won't give anything up from that loco . My box cabs are going to be more for decoration and maybe photo ops than runners .