@Francine posted:If Ron (American Models) runs the Reading Passenger cars with round roofs, I'm in.
Frankly, If Ron were to run the passenger cars just lettered Reading, consider yourself lucky. I don't think he'd tool up a new roof for them. There's always Pre-Size for roofs.
@AmFlyer posted:The talgo style truck mounts combined with the high rail couplers offer a lot of free play when the cars are coupled. My guess on the minimum radius needed for body mount Kadees on the 80' cars was 36" to be safe. One of the things I observed was there was a substantial amount of offset between car ends as the cars transitioned from straight to curves. My layout has easements but they are too short. The easements should be at least the length of the car (16") to work well. Mine are only about 6" long.
I managed to get AM 80 footers around 33" radius with body mounted 802's. I tapered the sides of the coupler box openings to allow for a tad more swing for the couplers. Also made sure the little casting nub on the shank was removed.
Any easements I had were purely unintentional...
Rusty
