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YOUR HELP REVISITED

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Posted by MisterBeasley on Wednesday, May 7, 2008 1:53 PM

I've heard you should never answer a question with a question.  But...

Are your couplers truck-mounted or body-mounted?  When dealing with passenger cars, you have the additional problems of getting around tight curves and maintaining a desireable separation between the cars.  Kadee also makes long-shank and short-shank couplers to alter the spacing between the cars.

It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse. 

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Posted by Rotorranch on Wednesday, May 7, 2008 1:11 PM

Kadee #5 for rolling stock. Or #58 for scale couplers.

http://www.kadee.com/conv/holist.pdf

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YOUR HELP REVISITED
Posted by Orange trainman on Wednesday, May 7, 2008 1:05 PM

GROUP I  guess I should have been a little more specific these two kits are "rolling stock!

one is a standard  santa fe 70' pullman car the other is a standard 70' santafe R.P.O. sorry for not being specific before.

george.

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