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First, I'd like to say hi to everyone. This has proven to be one of the most pleasant and informative online message board that I've run across in my net surfing, and i've been through a TON of them on various subjects and interests (professional computer geek here.) These forums have been an excellent source of information for all things railroading, both model and the real thing. Anyway, I've been away from the hobby for 12 or 13 years or so and want to get back into it at the ripe young age of 27. Which leads to a couple of questions: When buying rolling stock, what is the standard for couplers? Do they come with a standard type of coupler and if so, what is it or do they come with none at all and those will have to be bought seperately? What are the methods of de-coupling cars in, say, a yard? Is there an easy way to do this manually or is there a trick to it without accidentally de-railing the cars with clumsy hands? Again this is for N-scale, though it seems like it would be the same for HO. Any help is appreciated, as it's been a long while since my last layout and am pretty clueless about certain aspects of the hobby at this point.
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