You sure you don't want a few spares, just in case? I can give you several hundred residing in a drawer in my shop (away from my layout). Don't know why I'm keeping them. Case of packratitis, I guess.
That is quite a milestone. I will never get to that one for my roster. I have a set of cars that still have their original Baker couplers, a set with their original Devore's, a few with there original Mantua's, etc. They will always remain original. Whether they will ever see service on the layout is a different story.It is a momentous day! The last of the Horn Hook couplers have been banished from the Whistlestop Railroad!
Now I have to keep working on the plastic wheels, but I'll take a victory in the coupler battle.
That one is easy. in the 1950s the HO market place was a mess with every manufacturer having their own style of incompatible hooks. USA was not as affluent as it is today so almost doubling the cost of a freight car for couplers was not an option. The X2F enabled the industry to make cars that would work with other vendors for almost no cost. Had it not been for this coupler it is questionable if the HO scale "fad" of the time would have become the predominate scale in use today. Personally despite being an early adopter of the Kadee, I found the X2F to generally work quite well.I don't know why manufacturers would put such a ridiculous thing on a model railroad car to begin with.
I don't know why manufacturers would put such a ridiculous thing on a model railroad car to begin with. Putting square wheels on them would have been an equivalent act.
I don't know why manufacturers would put such a ridiculous thing on a model railroad car to begin with. Putting square wheels on them would have been an equivalent act.