Bill, I was going through this thread again and wondered if you had actually decided you knew how OB would work on a new trestle.
Looking at Dave's pictures of OB, the cab is not centered on the car. I've never seen you do it, but could you connect to the other end of the car and then turn the cab around 180 degrees (presuming you had a long steam hose and an extra flat betwixt the locomotive and O
from how ya'll have done friends demos?
That would give you a significantly longer reach.
... but i don't know if ya'll have ever turned the whole cab 180.
Tom