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You know, reading this thing has given me new respect for a couple of folks/entities. Rapido made its N scale coupler open to all. Yes, its ugly and not the best performer. But in the early days of N scale you could by equipment from anyone and it was compatable. I think this had alot to do with the rise of N scale from obscurity to the 2nd most popular scale. Does anyone remember the coupler wars from the early days of HO? You HAD to convert couplers if you were to buy from different manufacturers. And how the guy that had many articles in Model Railroader for early digitial control and comoputer interfaces? (Was it Bruce Chubb? I don't remember). Hopefully he made enough money selling the boards and kits to make the effort worth his while. And I have to take my hat off to those that developed the NMRA standards for digital control. A lot of effort went into that. NMRA could have patented or trademarked the idea and made lots of money - instead several companies out there are able to profit and us modelers get new technology that is comptabible regardless of the manufacturer (for the most part) and the competition between those manufacturers have resulted in higher quality products at lower prices. MTH is not a hero in my book.
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