3 link vs Kadee

"John Sullivan"

Locomotives, if it's a locomotive consist.

However, "consist", to a railroader, means the train being pulled by the locomotive at the headend.

-- Cheers Roger T.

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When I was at Broad Street guard school (for want of a better expression for a portacabin on a platform....)in 79 a consist which is a North american expression was called a train or a formation. a section of a train was called a portion , ie rear or forward portion. there is another term for a train which escapes me for the moment. Beowulf

More accurate than 3 link anyway!

What is a train with a locomotive at each end? VIA Rail is running at least some of its Toronto-Montreal trains this way - 4 or 5 refurbished

1950s Budd stainless steel coaches with a 4250-hp Genesis at both ends. Pretty good power-to-weight ratio, and no loco turning required!

The same terminology is used for air hose couplings on articulated trucks (lorries). Pretty obvious why.

Kadee now have a range of 'scale couplers'. Don't waste your time with the old narrow gauge types. See my web page on Kadee scale couplers. I model H0, my equipment has buffers. For 00 scale you could mount them at H0 height, negating the need to cut away the head stock.