Talgo has been used as a description of truck mounted couplers, (Talgo style coupling) since way back in the early 1960’s. I remember it, as I was in Hornby OO, then HO, and the term was used then.
Jerry,
It’s been awhile but back in the late 60’s I seem to recall AHM selling HO equipment(Passenger cars) with talgo trucks and couplers. These were 4 wheel trucks with couplers on an extended tongue.
Dave
Jon,
There ya go. I will do my best to never let that terible “T” word cross my lips again in your presence. From now on it is “Truck Mounted Couplers” in your presence, unless some one proves you wrong. 
In front of “the Fryer”, I will still use the dreaded “T” word, unless you are present. To make and maintain peace we shall just refer to then as “Non Body Mounted Couplers” or NBMC’s. Always trying hard to be politically correct. Hasn’t happened yet.
Jon,
What do you feed your pet peeve? 
Just askin’
Pet Peeve Chow…from Purina…
Joe,
My apologies, I made a typo, I meant Jon, not Joe… Jon mentioned ““Pet Peeves””… I was just trying to mess with him… I goofed… sorry…
Wow - Didn’t mean to derail the thread with my comment. Let’s bring it back to these really nice flat cars…
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Shawn - Did you buy those logs on eBay??? How much did you pay for them???
I thought the logs were home grown…
At least, they look like it to me… Freshly cut by the logging crew…
I got a good deal on e-bay. Except they never told me I had to cut the tree down myself. 
And, now we know the ““logging crew””…
Not only can he made great railroad cars, he cuts trees, too…
way to go Shawn, keep up the good work…
Hey, Andy.
Not a problem. You actually performed a valuable service: I was just about to complain to Bob that this thread had not yet gone off topic, and it was already 17 replies long.
Joe Satnik
Someone hadda dew it…
Ric Golding said:
Jon,What is your offense to using “Talgo Mounted Couplers”? I don’t know another use of the word Talgo and I have felt that came from the model railroad industry, somewhere. Truck mounted would seem to work just as well. I don’t understand the concern, please enlighten us.
You got me curious Ric. I always knew it as “Talgo” mounted couplers from my HO daze.
The history from what I find - Talgo is a Spanish train manufacturer and one of their inovations was a single axle, A-frame truck that swivels with the coupler attached. Tyco took the Talgo name and bastardized it to mean truck mounted couplers.
-Brian
Brian,
I just don’t want Jon mad at me for speaking wrong in his presence. If I’m going to piss him off, I want to do it on my terms. These politically correct unknowns just drives me nuts. We need order and direction down this path of life. Here I didn’t know and I’ve already upset the “his-panics”, because of Talgos. Our global economy is bankrupt and I’m sitting here remembering when “gay” just meant happy. So that means a person could have taken off yesterday becasue they were just enjoying life, normally.
Oh the pressure of this job.
“Tyco took the Talgo name and bastardized it” I can’t disagree with that.
“Talgo is a Spanish train manufacturer and one of their inovations was a single axle, A-frame truck that swivels with the coupler attached.” I don’t argue that either, but model railroad truck mounted couplers are not a single axel A-Frame. That leads back to the first quote. “Tyco took the Talgo name and bastardized it”
Just because our parents called a refrigerator a Frigidare doesn’t mean that all of them are :o
Ric - No worries, or political correctness here [I sometimes fart in elevators just for fun]. What I’m looking for is PROTOTYPICAL Correctness. Still PC, but train related, like Penn Central.
Y’all have a nice day now, hear?
see… Now, I thought PC meant ““Partially Controlled””… Here we go with different ancronyms again…
"Y’all have a nice day now, hear? "
Is that Southern Connecticut I hear?
Nah - We be Western Connecticut. Can’t afford to live in the South. But then again, neither can the people that live there now :o