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I agree that you probably need to rebuild that grade. Sooner or later you'll get a long car with body mounted couplers that will do the same thing. Did you check the coupler height with a guage? Also, is there much up and down slack on the E-6 coupler? Kadee and McHenry make the shelf coupler you are talking about. These were designed for use on tank cars to prevent punctures I believe. Wouldn't you need this type of coupler on the loco as well as the car it was pulling? If so, you would have to equip every car that you planned on pulling with this engine. Maybe you could set up a test track and try to duplicate that grade to level trackage, then take some of the abruptness out of the transition and see if this fixes the problem. Let us know what you decide to do and the out come please. It may help a fellow modeler in the future.
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