Bruce Petty has a website which features a very brief historical narrative and a map of the Pacific Electric's operations at San Fernando plus a small layout...
The Streamliner Model Railroad Club had its first meeting this week in Orange County. The club already has a good-size layout room and is looking for...
Lately, I heard a number of complaints about non-Kadee HO couplers. Within the module group to which I belong, we have been experiencing failures during show...
Our club has had a requirement for metal kadee couplers for all cars and a required screwed down coupler box. Every time we have tried to deviate with new...
I just acquired a set of P2K U-Boats in time for our monthly operating session (Gary Seigel's L&N EK Sub). I went over to set them up as a consist last...
I think the problems of Kadee clones are generally understood. I heard one of the guys at The Original Whistle Stop telling a beginner that he should replace...
This is also a problem in N-scale. I have completely pulled out several couplers on Athearn cars that come with the cheaper plastic couplers while running...
I use clones because I use bamboo skewers for uncupling and the skewers keep getting caught in the Kadee coupler knuckles. A little bit awkward to try to...
Most of the problems I've had are with the Kadee clones used by Life Like. They suck. I've complained to Life Like and more recently to Walthers. Jim...
I think the clones are an insult. They did not reliably couple my string of overnight boxcars. I had four inadvertant decouplings in the first 20 feet of...
I model in Sn3 and Ive used the standard Kadee #5 coupler ever since I started out with no regrets. The #5 is almost to scale for Sn3, I cut the trip pins off...
... "An interesting side note on couplers, I visited an On3 layout a few weeks ago. The San Juan kits come with their own scale coupler, and the knuckle is in...
From my personal experiance I've seen failures of the clones which have a cast in knuckle closing spring. Those are junk to be used only as lineside detail...
Hi all, It seems as though every car manufacturer has some variation of the Kadee coupler. I tried getting by with this for a while, but that just turned out...
While I model in N, I also regularly run on a friend's large HO layout as well and have run into in this problem in both scales. The reliablity problems...
If the issue the modeler is faced with is a scale coupler, because building accurate models is the end goal, then I'd say one might try several of the Kadee...
Hi All: I use All types of Kadee's, clones and the original metal kadee. I have found that they (the clones) are NO GOOD, when used between locomotives that...
Folks- Since there seems to be a broad consensus that Kadee clones are very poor substitutes for the original, and since I would hate to see these inferior...
Hi all... Metal Kadee-brand HO couplers are good, but several plastic couplers can give good service too. It seems overkill to throw away an adequate plastic...
While I was the guy who posted about the added wear and tear on RTR equipment that comes from having to replace Kadee clones with the real thing, it occurred...
My club, the Pacific Coast Modular Club, just had our monthly meeting yesterday. It was decided that the only couplers that would be allowed on the layout were...
The only difficulty I see is that some guys might prefer 5s and others 58s, and maybe on tank cars 118s. You naturally wouldn't want to create a situation...
Most of this discussion has centered around H.O. (makes sense since that's the larger proportion of the hobby.) In O scale, too, we have this issue, but it...
... Model_Railroads_Of_Southern_California@yahoogroups.com, "pctrainclub" <pctrainclub@...> wrote: I am only using Sergent couplers for my engines now, talk...
John has a very good point, Kadee has more than one style coupler and coupler head -- so what would a manufacturer of an RTR item use? Would it be the #5 size...
This will be a self-guided tour on Saturday, February 11, 2006. Car pooling is recommended. One of the concepts behind our layout tours is to keep things ...
... and coupler head -- so what would a manufacturer of an RTR item use? Would it be the #5 size head or the #58 size? Kadee uses the #58 size coupler head in...
... Model_Railroads_Of_Southern_California@yahoogroups.com, "pctrainclub" ... for ... knuckle to ... Are ... using ... into, ... be ... that ... You wave the...
All, While I haven't read all the previous postings in this thread, and given the fact that discussions regarding one's coupler preference closely resemble...
