Craig Townsend said:
Ken (or others),
Does adding a dummy coupler to the none opening end add any additional protection to prevent a locomotive slipping out backwards? Or would it just cause more problems?
I don't use a "dummy" coupler. it's an old bachmann coupler mouted to the front of the box. The KD couples with it and Holds the engine and keeps it from moving around. On top of that, I cut some of that foam packing material into a "U" and it holds the TX for the engine.
And yea, Bruce is right, you can get an awful lot of stuff squeezed into a tender, even the Shay.
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