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Branchline coach instruction sheet, page 5 "Use the off center screw hole on the bolster and the innermost mounting hole on the underframe."  The con of not following the directions is that it probably wont work.  The centerhole of the truck is essentially unusable due to the wheels being permanently installed in the truck sideframes (center wheel axle blocks center mounting hole on truck).  This results in a car that may run on 24" radius curves.   My curves fall betweem 23-26in radius, and I have reliability problems on the tighter curves.  Branchline cars like 28" or better (with some work they can be made to work on 24-26").  Walthers will work on exactly 24" radius (with 6 wheel trucks), slightly less than 24" with 4 wheel. American model builders makes a conversion for using Walther's trucks.   I plan to modify the current car I am working on along those lines so that I can use 4 wheel trucks instead of 6 wheel (the car I am modeling is a commuter coach that is close enough to the 80' single window coach kit that most people wont be able to tell the difference).
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