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Kadee ( http://www.kadee.com ) is pretty much the acknowledged king of knuckle couplers, as they make one for damn near anything ever produced in HO ( and N and O and G and...) scale. The #5 is the old (since 1950 or so) standard, and to my knowledge, the first/most successful scale-ish knuckle coupler in the American market. The #58 is a more scale-sized version, and there are dozens of others that offer shorter and longer shanks, centerset, overset, and underset coupler heads, and at least 3 different kinds of draft gear on the shanks, all of which combine to make a truly formidable catalog. Pick the 5 or 58, since they fit pretty much everything. They also have this thing called magne-matic delayed action uncoupling, which is pretty cool for yard operations. http://www.kadee.com/int/c1.htm Their patents are starting to run out these days, and there are a large number of companies (Bachmann, McHenry, Athearn...) copying the designs, sorta, in plastic. I have examples of most on my layout, and on my trains they just dont' work as well. My $0.02. And yes, I did drink the Kadee kool-aid [;)] -dave
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