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Kadee #58 scale coupler

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Kadee #58 scale coupler
Posted by Anonymous on Friday, June 29, 2001 12:20 AM
Why are the clubs out west banning them, whats the trouble. I have them on locos and freight cars(89'to '50). I have had no trouble. They look great and they make big difference in the way the locos and cars look.
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Posted by BNSFNUT on Tuesday, July 3, 2001 10:02 AM
I also run some long cars with the #58 couplers and have only had a couple of problems with some low spots with my track that I had not noticed. They seem to be less tolerant of vertical miss alignments. I just solved the low spots and have nor had any more trouble.
I also noticed that the gathering range for relible coupling is less.This could be why some clubs band them.

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Posted by cprted on Thursday, July 12, 2001 1:03 AM
The club that belong to has not banned them nor have a heard of any club banning them. In our club we haven't had problems with verticle misalignedments because we are a bunch of retentive *** when it come to rolling stock standards.
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