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Please – any help would be greatly appreciated. <br /> <br />I’ve almost finished a 1:20 model flatcar based on the plans by Wayne Spence on myLargescale.com. <br /> <br />The flatcar is the first step on a planned model railroad based on indoor modules. The theme that I’m working on is a narrow gauge railroad for passenger and freight transport around 1910. The general idea is to make everything as close to the real thing as possible – therefore I decided on link and pin couplers, mounted to car bodies. However I’ve just realized that the overhang on the car ends is so horrific, on LGB radius 1 curves, that I just can’t see the car being able to be coupled to other cars using standard length loops. <br /> <br />Although I’m planning to use slightly larger radius curves on the finished model, I still expect curves to be on the sharp size, due to the size of the modules and the complete model. <br /> <br />Therefore I should very much like to ask readers of this forum if it was also practice to use bars, instead of loops to join cars – and if so what would be the maximum acceptable length of such a bar. <br /> <br />Thanks <br /> <br />Peter <br />
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