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[quote user="Graffen"]I installed Sergent couplers. They open with a magnetic wand and looks absolutely terrific! Sure, they demand that you do the same work as the real workers do. You line up the couplers, open them and slowly connect them. To uncouple you add slack before holding the magnetic wand over the coupler, and then move them apart.[/quote] I started with Kadee #5s.  Then after a while the trip pins started bothering me (appearance wise).  I started snipping them.  Ran into some couplers from canada with stronger trip pins (you cant use xuron pliers on them).  Along the way I met my wife's classmate from high school at a train show.  I was introduced to Sergent couplers. Ordered my first pack of six the next week. Then a second pack of six.  The the bulk pack..so on. Im about 60-70% converted. The rest have glued on coupler box lids.  Slow, painful progress from here forward.  I usually build about 20 in a row then install them. Doesnt solve your remote uncoupling desire.   Still need a magetic wand.   I enjoy the enhanced operation, and not having to do what I might call the "Kadee shuffle" to uncouple cars over fixed magentic ramps, or jam a skewer into the couplers (no risk of loosening coupler box cover, ie glued or screwed inplace, I dont go for the Athearn metal clip solution, so thats not a problem). So I third the Sergent Coupler recommendation.  As I (and I think others) mentioned, they will not provide you with a way to uncouple remotely, and you need to be able to reach every industry spot.
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