Due to the fact that most of us on these forums, may think of ourselves as “MODEL RAILROADERS”, we should not look at the action of converting couplers from truck mounted to body mounted, an impossible task, or that making modest changes to a piece of rolling stock to accommodate body mounted couplers, as “Mutilation”.
The learning of new skills is part of the hobby, and can become most enjoyable, and doing some research, finding out how others accomplish tasks is part of the fun. Anyone can learn how to modify equipment, and improve performance of their equipment. All it takes is patience, motivation, and the will to learn, with an open mind.
Yes, in my somewhat limited experience over 30 years or so; I’ve learned that in most any task, we can find hard ways of doing things, and also, oh so often, rather simple ways too.
One of my driving forces, when body mounting couplers, is to improve operations, but another is to get rid of the unsightly “Offset SHANK COUPLER”, which is in most cases so unprototypical, and just sticks in my “Craw”…!!!
Fred Mills
