The new lionel truck design is great for those wanting to body mount kd coupers. Remove one screw and the claw comes off the truck. For those of use with smaller layouts and tight curves who wish to use kds. could a drop in replacement be made to replace the claw piece? Make the end of the piece with a kd box mount so that we could install a kd coupler on the truck itself. Being there are so many truck designs out there on all cars. Lionel says the new coupler design is going to be on all the scale cars in the line. This seams like a win win for all. Those who wish to body mount the kds or those who use the lobster claw. Now if what I am suggesting could be massed produced every one could use kd couplers on thier layouts even those of use with tight curves as well. I used truck mounted kds in nscale and the worked great. O scale being the truck is diecast and the wheels having large flanges on them. They might track better than other scales having the kds truck mounted. I am going to run this by dave and ryan if I get time. Just thought maybe some one here might know how to get this part made. What do you guys think?
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