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Well Unfirtunately most of my rolling stock at the moment is either the cheap Life Like or Bachmann variety with a few exceptions. I have some better Bachmann SS and Athearn things coming via Ebay finds to slowly add to this though and I am working on collecting up as many blue box kits as I can afford when I can get them. Due to this a lot of these cars have the really bad Talgo snap on trucks and little or no surface that I can find to mount a Kadee coupler box to on the fram that would look right. That was the main reason for the possibility of Talgo style. This is promarily a concern on hopper cars with a flimsy end frame like the Bachmann's. The newer stuff usually has the body mount coupler or can have one mounted. As for the sprung trucks, I actually mounted a set of sprung trucks that were on a Coal Car I picked up used at the LHS onto one of my Athearn cars I had bought already assembled and it helped greatly in the car wobble department. Most of my rolling stock has a bit of excessive side to side travel and the sprung trucks helped it out. It also slightly reduced the loud clickety Clack of the metal wheels on that car to a more tolerable level. It was wuite loud before since I use EZ Track for my track and it seems to amplify the noise a bit even sitting on a carpeted floor. Once I get the 4x8 plywood to actually get started on my layout I am going to being converting My rollng stock to metal wheelsets, more than likely P2K's since that is what the local Hobby SHop carries. I was wanting smooth backed wheels but all he has are the ribbed back ones. If I get the Kadee trucks they come with smooth backed wheels but they do not specify if they are metal or not on the Kadee sight, they only say non- magentic. All in all I am for the most part still shopping around for better detail parts than the stock plastic molded ones on my cheaper rolling stock. The Athearn trucks look pretty good out of the box but some of the others look down right cheesy by comparison and that was what prompted this discussion. I want consistency among my rolling stock or at least as much as I can get considering the wide range of quality.
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