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This is more of an overhang issue. Some of the guys on the Bachmann site got their Bachmann shays to navigate a 12" radius curve. The cars depend on what you are modeling. A lot of the guys modeling logging use disconnects as those offered by Kadee. A disconnect was a truck with a log bunk. They were used in tandem and were connected either by the load or by a bar called a rooster. There are pictures with a load being over 120' long and the belly dragging on ties, rail what have you. These originated in the link and pin days and were carried over to the knuckle coupler days and some of the early couplers had provision to connect a link and pin car to a knuckler car. They were finally outlawed as they required a company of brake men with hickeys ( a bar to provide leverage on the brake wheels) to set and release the brakes. Laws promoting safety wanted a braking system that could be controlled from the cab. The disconnects gave way to skeleton cars with air brakes because of this.
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