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orsonroy, I am near 40 and have been part of the Hobby since 7. My father and his father practiced the hobby also. I have always been aware that steam in HO rarely had working front couplers which influenced me to skip the plastic steamers of the day and focus on the Desiels. I left the hobby for over a decade and now am experiencing a kind of 2nd childhood with all the marvelous offerings. And I have decided that there will be working steam and they will have front couplers that work. If necessary such as the Athearn Mike and the BLI's engines among others I will learn to install them. And the internet is a great tool for being able to voice my concerns and recieve knowledge about this. I think it is great!! I suppose that your solution will work great too. However, I am attempting to retain the ability to drop and pick up cars out of reach. With that said, there may be a need to design a pike that will have all industries within reach so that one may be able to use Massive Hand Power to assist in switching. If I wanted to be really stubborn about switching, perhaps a major industry with it's own switcher near a small town (Or in several towns) can assist in switching ins and outs to a interchange track nearby. But that is a whole other can (No.. bucket) of worms beyond the scope of this thread. Lee
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