Talgo Conversion

Converting Talgo Couplers - by Larry L Doub

Making those toylike cars more useful

	Here are a few detail pictures of how to covert talgo trucked rolling stock over to be a better, and more useful car. Photo1 shows new the truck mount. Just cut out the frame area and glue in a piece of styrene, cut to fit, then drill the hole center location for the truck screw
	In Photo 2 you can see how I mounted the Cushion Pocket.* Use the same thickness of styrene and with a little trimming on the frame, coupler pocket, and maybe a little trimming of the car body, to get the pocket to sit level and the correct setting for the depth of the coupler pocket. * Walthers Part #933-1030
	The next two photos are of the completed car. I added a few grab irons and cut the molded ladder rungs out using the molded part for hand made grabs. The road number was hand painted with a tooth pick, to look like some prototype numbers you will find. It was then weathered it down to be a well used car.
	If you have the knack for this, it takes about 20 minutes to change one over using a fast set glue, not counting the weathering or grab irons. I used ProWeld Liquid Glue. This conversion makes for a lot better working car and they look better too.