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N Scale Couplers

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Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, February 24, 2005 5:25 PM
I used the Assembled Micro Trains 1015 RDA couplers for my SD-60s.:
1015-1 Assembled RDA Cplr Conv. (2 pr)
ITEM # MT-1015-1
I bought them online from Brooklyn Locomotive Works, a great discount N scale store:
www.blwnscale.com
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Posted by egmurphy on Thursday, February 24, 2005 10:18 AM
You might try asking about the SD60 over on one of the specialized N scale forums. I'd suggest either Atlas or TrainBoard. Maybe someone there has made the conversion and can say what they used.

http://forum.atlasrr.com/

http://www.trainboard.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi



Regards

Ed
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Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, February 23, 2005 9:22 PM
Thanks Ed. I found reference to the GP50 and F40PH, but not the SD60.

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Posted by egmurphy on Wednesday, February 23, 2005 8:39 PM
The standard option for replacing rapido couplers (N scale standard) is Micro-Trains (MT) which is an offshoot of Kadee. The brothers split the business and one took Kadee (HO) and the other started Micro-Trains (N & Z), using the same design for the coupler.

Here's a link to their website.
http://www.micro-trains.com/

Go to the tab for "Conversions" and that will bring you to a 3 page pdf file listing all the major brands and models of cars and engines and which MT conversion kit you need.

By the way, welcome to the forum. [#welcome] It's always nice to see more Normal scalers here. And especially so if their name is "Ed". [:D]



Good luck,

Ed
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N Scale Couplers
Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, February 23, 2005 8:25 PM
My first time on the forum so please be gentle. I would like to get rid of the stock N guage coulplers and replace them with a knuckle type. I need couplers for 2 Atlas SD60s, a Bachmann GP50, and a LifeLike F40PH. In the past I was able to order conversion kits (Atlas GP40s). Any ideas?

Thanks

Ed

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