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Motorizing Tram from 8404/60097
Has anyone tried motorizing the tram from either of these sets? All of the train stuff I currently have is based on the electric track, but I ordered some of the newer ones which should be here this week. I'm going to tinker around with it to see how it looks but wanted to see if someone else has already come up with something so I'm not reinventing the wheel. I'd like to make a city setup with the tram running through the middle of the street sort of like this:

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The Trax LRV in the photograph isn't a ULF vehicle and has a raised floor at the ends. Unfortunately, it still has totally enclosed wheels. However, there are similar vehicles that don't but which have panelling added to the sides of the wheelsets instead. These do not have the same limitation on steering. The question is whether you can add the fairings and still keep everything slim enough to be convincing.
Powering any of them is the easy part. As you can't get it under such a low floor, the motor is going to end up in the passenger space. If the pivot for whatever wheel configuration you choose is on the ceiling of the car, then you've plenty of space for a motor and gearing.
If you use Tr. Brown for the windows, then replacing them with black where you want to hide working parts works reasonable well - as is used in #7938.
I turned it into a six wide monorail train (so dropping the door below the level of the mono-train base to give it that low to ground feel). It's quite a bit larger than the airport shuttle, for example - but annoyingly at 6-wide I then need to mod all my monorail stations else it doesn't run through them!
Haven't had a go yet with the orange one from 60097.
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