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I suspect many modelers think the Walthers couplers are too high because the actuating trip pins are higher off the rails than are Kadees. Walthers may have used shorter trip pins to help eliminate them as a source of derailmants--but I have yet to test them to see how reliably they uncouple. <br /> <br />As a solution to the coupler height mismatch problem, I would suggest raising the couplers on the Athearn equipment (by using a Kadee or Kadee-compatible coupler with an offset shank) rather than lowering a Walthers coupler that specs out at the industry-standard height.
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