version
is for highway and rail service. (The small bits sticking out horizontally
from the legs near the feet can be trimmed off and discarded.) The
last four items are the mounting brackets for the landing gear. The
two above the sprue are used for modeling standard non-RoadRailer
trailers while the more symetrical pair below the sprue are the standard
gear for RoadRailers. These press fit into slots in the bottom of
the trailer with the crank lever on the drivers side pointing to the
back of the trailer. The landing gear legs slide into the slots on
the inside faces of the mounting brackets. 3.
Last is the saddle used when mounting a CouplerMate to  the
back of a RoadRailer system train. Since most RoadRailer system trains
run with CouplerMates only on the front and use just the standard
bogie at the back, you may never use this part. Ten is certainly a
lifetime supply! You will find instruct-ions for its use in the CouplerMate
section. Setting up a basic RoadRailer Train: Find the RoadRailer
trailer with the factory mounted CouplerMate and set it on the track.
Now take any one of the other RoadRailer trailers and examine the
bottom. You will notice a pair of pins on the bottom near the nose.
The larger of the two pins fits in the hole at the end of the drawbar
protruding from the back of the first RoadRailer trailer. Then set
the rail wheels (of the second one) on the track. Repeat the process
until the train is as long as you want it to be. Although CouplerMates
can be mounted on the front and back of a train, most RoadRailer trains
run with a standard rail bogie (without coupler) at the end of the
train. The last RoadRailer will look more prototypical if you remove
the drawbar from the back of the trailer and let the opening be visible.
To do this, grab the 
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RoadRailer,
RoadRailer Trailer, RoadRailer System, CouplerMate, and RoadRailer
Bogey are all trademarks of the Wabash National Tecnology Corporation
and used by permission of the Wabash National Corporation
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