A momentous day!

[Iron Horseman]

The biggest problem I remember having with them during my early years in the hobby, was the sideways pressure they exerted against each other, making it virtually impossible to run any car that I couldn't add weight to (such as tank cars) without them derailing on curves.

Was that really a problem with the coupler or was that a problem with the coupler being mounted on the truck? I had a similar issue with my Marx and Tyco, but not the Athearn or MDC.

 

[KB02]

Yeah, most of my conversions included lopping off the truck mounted couplers and putting on gearboxes to the cars themselves. Mostly height adjustments, but I did have one tank car that turned out to be a bit of an engineering project to make it happen. The running reliability of that particular car improved about 628%!!!