Re: Different coupler types on the same layout
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Conversion cars are nothing new. Back when I was a child with AF, I had some cars?with a knuckle coupler on one end and a link coupler on the other end.?
I seem to remember a prototype narrow gauge hopper (ballast) car with a?full size coupler on one end and a 3/4MCB?coupler on the other end. On my layout, I have a dual gauge conversion car so I can run standard and 3' gauge cars in the same train on three-rail dual gauge track. Yes there are prototypes for this and Rio Grande Models made a kit for them.
Dave Heine
On Thu, Feb 13, 2025 at 3:56?PM Jim & Cheryl Martin via <themartins= [email protected]> wrote:
Roger Haag wrote:
One yard has Flyer couplers and the other yard has Kadee?
HI Roger.
If you want to run both Flyer and Kadee couplers on your layout, you will benefit from an idea from the Old Days when several different coupler types were vying for popularity in HO. Kadee won out of course, but for a while there were also the X2F, Baker, Mantua and other variations of hook and loop.
What you need are two coupler conversion cars, each with a Flyer coupler on one end and a Kadee on the other. Either car would allow a Kadee equipped loco to pull a string of Flyer equipped cars, or vice versa, a Flyer loco to haul Kadee equipped cars.
Or hook the two cars altogether...Kadee to Kadee, and run them in a train of Flyer cars...or Flyer to Flyer to operate in a string of Kadee-equipped cars. Maximum flexibility.
Cheers Jim Martin
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