Re: (HO) Athearn F59PHI question

Thanks...I don't think my buddy up north wants to spend that much money on the book, as the one and only locomotive he has is that F59PHI!!!

A PS to my comments on using #58s-I cut the trip pin off the front coupler as it will be very close or touching the plow. If you want to leave it on and it touches, a little bend should do the trick. Thing is that you probably won't be able to couple a car to it that has the trip pin, so you would have to cut that pin off too (I'm a member of the "cut them off club". If you want good function you will have to use a longer shanked coupler with the #5 type knuckle. That works but looks a bit ridiculous sticking out like that. Since the prototype doesn't usually use front coupling when in service that coupler is more for appearance anyway.

J. Bright

Yup, that's the way I used to do it when I was in HO scale myself. I actually used to use MKD-8's on most of the Athearn stock once I drilled/tapped the coupler mounting tab.

No problem, thank you very much for taking the time to assist. I have forwarded the posts to my buddy up north, he should be able to figure out what you explained about using the #58's in another post!