Hi,
Mr. Lunkenheimer bought a string of heavyweights for the SWAMP RR. He was not
pleased with the fact that they did not have full diaphragms, or anything
looking like them between the cars. Those thin things they are equipped with
just leave too much gap between cars. The quickest thing we could come up
with, relying on the 10 foot rule, was to cut some pieces of the dark gray or
black foam that is often used to pack photographic equipment, etc. If you cut
a piece of foam that is about 50 percent thicker than the "gap" you can just
push it in place as the cars are coupled. We also removed the factory
couplers and used the resulting "U" ends to be receptacles for pins made of
bent aluminum rod. Easy to get in and out, and the inserted piece of foam
sort of hid what we were doing.
We are really not working with museum quality scale models here, so the ten
foot rule and a couple of "Buds" later, no one is the 'weiser' -- if you know
what
I mean.
Keep your steam up!
Walt
