So, I finally got around to finishing the installation of Kadees on my Lionel F3s. Thanks to forum member Marker and his photo of the prototype I made some spacers for the pilot ends to simulate the recessed coupler box. I may remove it and add rivet detail in the future.
Now I want to add Kadees to my set of Lionel 18" Santa Fe cars. The cars like the engines couple very far apart and I want to bring them close together. Like the engines I hope to talgo mount them so I run smaller radiuses. I suspect not many here have taken that approach but even if you have body mounted them I was wondering how you have removed the coupler bar from the truck? I try to make any mods I do to my trains reversible so I will either remove the complete coupler assembly from the truck or just the coupler head and mechanism and mount the kadee to the bar. The latter idea may not allow close enough coupling without irreversible modification to the bar so I will make new bars to mount to the trucks if I have to. Here is an example of the stock Lionel truck. Any suggestions welcome.
Pete