10-11-2011, 08:21 AM
If you are in the process of converting cars from talgo to body mounts, you should have at least a couple of conversion or adapter cars with body mounts on one end and talgos on the other end until the fleet switch over is complete. The problem with trying to run body mounts with talgos is that talgo trucks keep the couplers centered through any radius curve, while a body mounted coupler will always swing to the outside of any curve, the amount of swing determined by the cars overhang and the tightness of the curve radius. The exception to this need for an adapter car is those cars equipped with devices like the Walthers coupler swing adapters. I think Rivarossi also did something similar on there 85 foot passenger cars as well.