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A model railroad first

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A model railroad first
Posted by Anonymous on Friday, June 18, 2004 1:21 PM
I changed my first coupler sets last night. I have boxes and boxes of HO locos and rolling stock... all with older horn-hook couplers. Last night I started converting portions of the fleet to magetic knuckle couplers. The first guinea pigs were a set of wood open gondola passenger cars... the coupler was previously integral with the truck. No more!

I also unpacked a host of box cars, reefers, tankers, hoppers, etc. and will convert them all. After couplers, I'll weather.

Just thought I'd share this monumental occasion...
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Posted by Anonymous on Friday, June 18, 2004 1:34 PM
Congratulations!

If you want to do other things, just make sure you leave one car as a "transition" with a Kadee on one end, and a horn-hook on the other so you don't have to do them all at once... [;)]

Andrew

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