I got where link and pin couplers on my cars was just too much of a pain. Easy solution I found was to use Kadee 821’s. The coupler has a short shank that fits right in the coupler pocket and the bolt goes right through. Used the Kadee gauge so they are all the same. They worked fine in my test runs.
Jerry what kind of L/P couplers were you using? Ozarks?
Yes Vic, I was using Ozark. Just got tired of messing with them. Still have one on the battery car to hook to the different locomotives I use to pull them with. My Shay, Climax and Hartland 0-4-0. Didn’t want to mess with the couplers on them, needed to drop them some. Maybe someday…
I had one consist that was l/p and it was a total pain to switch. I changed them over to the smaller KD couplers. If I had an elevated layout it would probably be a different story.
Terry
I like 'em. But only for strings of cars that I’m not going to break up! I have a string of 15 shorty ore cars on L&Ps. Also two strings of three logcars each on L&P’s. I put one of my regular couplers at each end of these strings, and I switch the whole string, not individual cars. And my track is elevated, sort of… (about almost knee high)…
BTW, two reasons for my using L&Ps at all is because I had a whole raft of 'em, so the price was right, and they couple closer, so they look better in a long string of identical cars, IMHO… Actually, those are pretty good reasons… but as for operation, they’re as useless as you guys are saying. I bend the d-mned pins so they can’t fall out…
My regular coupler is hook and loop. Now you must think I’m really nuts…:rolleyes:
John Le Forestier said:
I like 'em. But only for strings of cars that I'm not going to break up! I have a string of 15 shorty ore cars on L&Ps. Also two strings of three logcars each on L&P's. I put one of my regular couplers at each end of these strings, and I switch the whole string, not individual cars. And my track is elevated, sort of... (about almost knee high)...BTW, two reasons for my using L&Ps at all is because I had a whole raft of 'em, so the price was right, and they couple closer, so they look better in a long string of identical cars, IMHO… Actually, those are pretty good reasons… but as for operation, they’re as useless as you guys are saying. I bend the d-mned pins so they can’t fall out…
My regular coupler is hook and loop. Now you must think I’m really nuts…:rolleyes:
John… we no longer just think it…
