Quote from: Irbricksceo on December 14, 2014, 11:59:15 AM
The reason these old athearn cars can go around tight curves is the trucks are Talgo trucks. While most would say Talgos look funny, I replaced the couplers with short-shank ones and so the couplers are partly under the body anyway, the result is they look faitly close coupled and about as nice as passenger cars can get on 18 inch.
Irbrick-
The issue with Talgo trucks is operation, not appearance. Granted, there are fewer problems with Talgos on passenger cars
than freight cars, but that's because passenger trains are backed and switched a whole lot less than freight trains.
-- D