{"id":4087,"date":"2025-04-19T09:57:18","date_gmt":"2025-04-19T16:57:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/americanootoday.com\/?p=4087"},"modified":"2025-04-19T09:59:41","modified_gmt":"2025-04-19T16:59:41","slug":"the-impossible-dream-schorr-trucks-on-a-sc-boxcar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/americanootoday.com\/?p=4087","title":{"rendered":"The impossible dream: Schorr trucks on a SC boxcar"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"\">If any of you have ever tired it, you have found out that you can&#8217;t put Schorr trucks on most Scale-Craft models due to the &#8220;flat frame&#8221; design. If the car is at the correct height, the full size OO wheels used in the Schorr truck will rub on the floor of the car. Scale-Craft trucks have undersized wheels to compensate for what had to have been a design mistake.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">And Schorr trucks are great! How to use them on these cars? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">One answer I came up with is the below: cut big slots in the floor, which I did with mostly a jewelers saw. Saving enough material that they are still structurally sound. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1512\" height=\"907\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/americanootoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/SC-Schorr-2.jpg?fit=640%2C384&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4088\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/americanootoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/SC-Schorr-2.jpg?w=1512&amp;ssl=1 1512w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/americanootoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/SC-Schorr-2.jpg?resize=300%2C180&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/americanootoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/SC-Schorr-2.jpg?resize=1024%2C614&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/americanootoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/SC-Schorr-2.jpg?resize=768%2C461&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/americanootoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/SC-Schorr-2.jpg?w=1280&amp;ssl=1 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">It was kind of a lot of work to be honest, I doubt I&#8217;ll do it again. But the finished look is nice as seen below, and of course they roll great. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1156\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/americanootoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/SC-Schorr-1.jpg?fit=640%2C386&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4089\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/americanootoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/SC-Schorr-1.jpg?w=1920&amp;ssl=1 1920w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/americanootoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/SC-Schorr-1.jpg?resize=300%2C181&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/americanootoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/SC-Schorr-1.jpg?resize=1024%2C617&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/americanootoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/SC-Schorr-1.jpg?resize=768%2C462&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/americanootoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/SC-Schorr-1.jpg?resize=1536%2C925&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/americanootoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/SC-Schorr-1.jpg?w=1280&amp;ssl=1 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If any of you have ever tired it, you have found out that you can&#8217;t put Schorr trucks on most Scale-Craft models due to the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4089,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scale-craft","category-schorr"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/americanootoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/SC-Schorr-1.jpg?fit=1920%2C1156&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/americanootoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/americanootoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/americanootoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americanootoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americanootoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4087"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/americanootoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4087\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4091,"href":"https:\/\/americanootoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4087\/revisions\/4091"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americanootoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/americanootoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americanootoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americanootoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}