I might have something close to what your suggesting (but not doing).
Way too busy right now to look through old slides--after all how many
40' boxcars are still out there so I probably don't have anything recent.
And speaking of old stuff--there's another that I'll find someday. It's
a shot of one of the DRG&W narrow gauge MW cars. It has a tremendous
amount of coupler droop. To be fair however the car was probably far
from being ready go without some rip track work. I would bet that the
amount of droop, in proportion, wouldn't make it around our layouts. It
certainly needed that little "blue pill"!
With that being said let me question Matt and ask--what American Models
coupler? The original AM coupler that came with our first cars was very
close to the Kadee #5. Therefore it too would be too small. Likewise
the coupler for the early plain sided passenger cars. I don't have any
of the Budd cars, but that coupler and perhaps the Amtrak version might
be larger but I'm not sure. When I started to build my first kits in
high school, I used the Stewart dummy coupler which is about the same
size as the AM dummy, so I wonder where they got those dimensions from.
Bob Werre
PhotoTraxx
On 3/6/13 1:30 AM, Ed wrote:
> I plan to use the Kadee S scale and American Models couplers...HO
couplers appear too small for my taste. Precision Scale offers a great
looking On3 coupler but it also looks small.
> Matt Hogan
It might be interesting for someone with spare time to take photos of
a real box car and a model S box car with HO couplers and a model S
box car with S couplers and place the pictures side by side so that
everything is in the right size proportions. Then we could all view
the visual size comparisons, etc. and see how much difference there
really is. As usual, lots of ideas for others to do. Cheers....Ed Loizeaux
