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@AGHRMatt posted:

I forgot about this thread. I have five of them I want to switch over. What, if any, are the curve requiements once they're converted? My 89-foot Atlas trailer flats can make it through 36" radius, though I'd be running them on 45" radius.

I can tell you that they will not run on a 36”. The trucks are too far in and the car ends push way out around curves.  I’m not sure you could save it even with the sides of the kadee box cut open.  I would gander that there’s a “bare minimum” that you could do, but there’s also going to be a “realistic” radius of safe operation that’s probably north of 50”.

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