[HO] coupler poll

"Puckdropper" wrote

That's odd.

The link gives me a page that says no such article exists!

It worked for me, but the site shows no closed paren. Try this one.

Correction. there is no article with this exact title. There seem to be ways to get to articles about couplers though.

"Greg Procter" wrote

I fail to see how you could misunderstand what he said, and he said nothing akin to that at *all*!

Such as? Australia and Russia both strike me as being possibilities -both having long, long stretches without serious grades. But mile-long (1.609 K.) freights aren't in the least unusual in the US, and in areas where there are no serious grades, I.E. California's high deserts and most of the Midwest, they can stretch as long as two miles (3.2 K.).

-Pete

And somebody else forgets C A N A D A.

"Roger T." wrote

In case you haven't looked at map recently Roger, the great plains of the Midwest begin in Texas and extend up just about all the way to the north pole. That automatically includes C A N A D A, which, since their railroad systems -including couplers- are interchangeable with those of the US, can be included as being all one entity for purposes of this discussion, since the great plains are a geographical, not political, feature.

Don't worry: everybody down here knows that there's a border up there somewhere, and that while the people on the north side of it may talk a little funny, they're perfectly nice folks and generally good neighbors.

(And yes; I'm pulling your leg.)

-Pete

"P. Roehling" wrote in news:4823db51$0$7056$ snipped-for-privacy@roadrunner.com:

Try this:

That'll teach me to copy and paste what I entered to the URL bar. Apparently Wikipedia doesn't redirect your browser, it just simply feeds you the page from the database.

Puckdropper

Quote: "... _but_ other countries ... use their own systems:" The distinction is made by the "but".

That's not so difficult for english speaking individuals!

Australia, Canada, South Africa. I presumed we were talking averages, not ultimate lengths. If we are talking ultimate lengths then I believe Australia would claim that title.

Regards, Greg.P.

Who? ;^)

Greg Procter wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@ihug.co.nz:

*snip*

Read the sentence with "AND" rather than "BUT", then. It means almost the same thing, however the hint that both the subject and object are about to be ripped mercilessly out from under the reader goes away. That really screws with some readers minds, so I try to avoid it by using "but" where appropriate.

-- The US has standardized on the type E and type F knuckle couplers, AND other countries (with much shorter trains) use their own systems:

Puckdropper

Greg will misunderstand, misinterpret, misrepresent anything and everything, if he can make it come out as an anti-USA statement. It seems to be a pathalogical behavior for him.

Paul

On 5/9/2008 1:00 AM Puckdropper spake thus:

Actually, it (Wikipedia) *does* redirect, but it's an internal wiki-thing, and only works if there's a "redirect" in place. You can actually create them yourself if you like (using the #redirect directive).

I know that many stupid people use "and" and "but" interchangably, but they are not interchangable. They have different meanings and one must assume that the writer means what they say. eg ... 'use "and" but "but" interchagably,' from the above sentence doesn't make any sense.

Are you saying that the US doesn't use it's own coupler system?

Regards, Greg.P.

Paul, I only read what is written. When you make an 'anti- 95% of the world' statement I take it as such.

Obnoxiousness and stupidity seems to be your normal behaviour.

Regards, Greg.P.

"Puckdropper" wrote

Bingo!

Interesting article. Thanx.

-Pete

"Paul Newhouse" wrote

I sort of figured.

"Roger T." skriver:

What ?

They have been mounted with NEM pocket for decades now.

The problem is excatly the kadees, since they do not form a strong connection.

Eureopean rolling stock can run buffer to buffer and in curves extend the coupler pocket to give enough space to clear the buffers for each other. If you want to run buffer 2 buffer with kadees you han only pull the train, not push, since the Kadee coupler does not couple firm enough.

That is where the Fleischmann Profi coupler comes in, I think you could benefit from reading this:

UK ?

They are seperated from main Europe by water - they live as We did 30 years ago.....

Klaus (Danish)

"Greg Procter" wrote

Ed-i-tor: (n.) A primitive form of life that apparently wanted to evolve into a writer, but lacked the creativity to do anything other than dwell on unimportant minutia.

Cri-tic: (n.) An editor with less talent.

I'm a _reader_ and _contributor_, Paul. The discussion was about HO model couplers. I responded to several postings that appeared to say that the Kadee is the ultimate coupling. My intended point was that the Kadee is good when representing knuckle couplings, but that it is less than ideal in the functional sense when used with side buffers. That is after all, the most common prototype system world-wide. In regards to my New Zealand Railways modelling, where a center coupling is used, the knuckle coupling is a practical option. However, it doesn't look like the real coupler and body mounting is impractical on the radius curves normally used. ie it is _not_ the ultimate coupler.

Regards, Greg.P.