(erielack) Couplers and draft gear

[MDelvec952_@_aol.com]

Was at Paul Tup's the other night and he showed me Kadee's Susquehanna PS-1, 
which had the oversize No.5 coupler but correct draft gear.  It looked 
wonderful.  My cheif beef with the new scale-ish No.58 couplers is that they 
require the grossely oversized Kadee draft gear, which looks even bigger with 
the smaller No.58 coupler.

The following is a note from Railway Prototype Cyclopedia-publisher Ed 
Hawkins from the freightcars list about getting Kadee to produce the scale 
No.58 to fit the scale draft gear on the PS-1s, and perhaps making scale 
draft gear boxes to retrofit other models.  There enough modelers on this 
list who might make a dent in Kadee's production plans.  Drop 'em an e-mail, 
please.

Back to your regularly schedule programming.

                        ....Mike

>>The Kadee #58 couplers have the same shank as the #5 and was designed as a 
"plug-in" for their conventional #5 coupler boxes. The #58s will not fit 
inside the narrower scale-size draft gear box used on their PS-1 models. 
However, I wouldn't be at all surprised if (sometime in the future) Kadee 
makes a coupler that marries the coupler head of the #58 and the narrow shank 
of their PS-1 coupler. This coupler would likely be offered in a package with 
scale-width draft gear boxes like those supplied with the PS-1 models. I make 
no guarantees that this will occur. May I suggest that Kadee will be more 
likely to produce such a coupler if they hear requests for them from 
potential customers like yourself. Their e-mail address is: mail_@_kadee.com.
Regards,  Ed Hawkins  <<

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