I recently got back into the hobby but am still a newbe and don't know
very much. All my old locos and rolling stock have standard Rapido
couplers. Last week I went to the Reading Pa. train show and bought
some coal cars that matched some of my old road names. Not being very
observent, I didn't notice until I got home that they had knuckle
couplers. In reading through the forum I came to the conclusion that
Micro Trains makes a good product so I bought some and installed them
on my old coal cars so they would work with the new ones. Worked like a
charm. I have since noticed that most new locos & rolling stock now
come with knuckle couplers. If you guys can help me out with these Q's
I would greatly appreciate it:
1. There are several manufactures of knuckle couplers. Are they
all compatable?
2. When you by a new car how can you tell which manufactures
coupler is on it or doesn't it matter?
3. MTS makes 10 differnt types, whats the diffrence?
- posted 15 years ago