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[quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by BR60103 Matt: an outfit called American Train and Track imported a number of Tri-Ang items into the USA and managed to get hornhook couplings on them. Main item was the RDC, but it looks like they had some passenger cars as well. I'm not sure if they had better wheels. [/quote] Now you mention it, I remember reading something about these recently - think they also offered Triang British container flats fitted with horn-hooks, at least, I've seen a photo of one fitted with these. I found one streamline car and some RDCs listed at www.modelfair.com in their pre-owned section, sadly their photos aren't quite high-resolution enough to see how the couplers are fitted or what sort of wheels they have. I'd guess they came up with something that fitted to the standard Triang coupler mounting (probably riveted on, at least, that's how Triang fitted most of their couplers) and produced a horn-hook at the correct height. I have one of their earlier dome cars painted silver with red stripe which I picked up at a show a few years ago - it was cheap and in decent condition, still looking for the other cars and matching locos though. The wheels on this are something like those found on a heavy roller, though I suspect they might have fitted something better to the export models - was RP25 around back then?
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