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Upgrading couplers on Lionel Dockside

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Upgrading couplers on Lionel Dockside
Posted by Anonymous on Monday, August 22, 2005 9:18 AM
Does anyone know how difficult it would be to upgrade the coupers on a Lionel Dockside Switcher to electrocouplers? I'm thinking about getting one and doing a TMCC upgrade, but I don't want to do it unless I can also do the coupler upgrade.
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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, August 22, 2005 9:34 AM
The best place to start is train america studios. Here is the link.

http://www.tastudios.com/

They should be able to help you.
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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, August 22, 2005 11:26 AM
I'll check with TA again, but when I talked with them a few months ago about the TMCC upgrade they did not know what would be involved in a coupler upgrade.
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Posted by dougdagrump on Monday, August 22, 2005 12:06 PM
Check out www.electricrr.com .They kinda specialize in the upgrades for ths smaller loco's and rolling stock. I have a beep, with TMCC and sound, from them and it runs like a charm. [^]

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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, August 22, 2005 5:40 PM
ElectricRR, like TA has TMCC upgrades for small locos, but I don't see anything on their site about upgrading to couplers. Since manual couplers to electrocouplers a mechanical upgrade as opposed to electronic, I don't think it's really where they specialize. Correct me if I'm wrong.

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