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Nobody has mentioned the NMRA track and wheel gauge yet. This is also an indespensable tool in my opinion. Between the Kadee coupler height gauge and the NMRA gauge, you will have most of what you need to tune up your cars. I model the Northern Pacific, which must not have been as big of an interchanger as the eastern roads. I see photos of N.P. freight trains where the Northern Pacific Herald was on almost 1/2 the cars in the train. This is how I remember the road, also. I love box cars,too! However, I have very few roads which are not close to home. C.B. & Q., C.N.& W., S.P., Santa Fe, D. & R.G.W., etc. and a few of the bigger eastern roads. I don't know if my statements above apply to every line. I found if I cut off the coupler boxes on Athearn cars and replace with Kadee coupler boxes screwed to the underside of the car, this goes along ways towards making the coupler heights correct. I also weight per the NMRA. However, that's a topic you don't want to get Brakie involved with! Oh, Hi Brakie!
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