03-03-2009, 11:21 AM
Puddlejumper Wrote:I really don't think body mounting the couplers will be of any help on these sharp curves. The truck mounted couplers will stay lined up on the centerline of the track whereas the body mounted couplers will swing way outside the railhead and could complicate your current derailment situation, unless you go with complicated swinging draft gear.
Dave
Dave if you take a close look at the pic Jim Curry posted, he came up with an ingenious method of "body mounting" the couplers. By mounting the couplers to a long piece of styrene that was mounted to the body on a "pivot screw". he gained the advantage of body mounting (no sideways stress on trucks) with the advantages of truck mounting (the coupler is free to swing to follow curves.)