There was a coupler like the one described, pin through the coupler, very prototype looking, and it did exist in HO scale. I had a couple that I bought from an older gentleman way back when I was

Yes! When I first started playing with Sergents I checked slack, about 6 kadee equipped cars would have almost 3/4 in of slack! Same amount of Sergents had had about 1/32in of slack. Nice. Dale Sent

John & Group, I think I remember a somewhat similar HO scale coupler from way back when that utilized a center pin lifted from below to open the knuckle when the pin was pushed upward. If I remember

I agree on the lack of slack, it really bothers me with Kadees that "accordion" down the track. It can be disconcerting to see great models running through beautiful scenery, but just bouncing along.

One thing I forgot to mention, I really like the lack of slack. When I have an engine that is jerky, for one reason or another, the entire train would bounce back and forth,with Kadees, but with the

It just so happens that I know the guy in this video - Tim Hartsfield, and have seen his operational cutbar in person. He made the locking pin using a wire lift ring. Just that simple. Many, many,

Blayne, You have nearly nailed what my layout is like, except I don't have the Oil wells and refinery. I'm mostly a Lone Wolf, altho the guys do come over once or twice a year. Then, we just have a

I don't think so. Prototype couplers are bottom-operated on freight cars, and the mechanism to do this would be too small to be reliable in HO. I think that the magnetic solution is very reliable, a

Simplistically put I meant dropping cars from a train and picking up cars to be taken somewhere. I will have loaded ore cars going from a mine to a mill and loaded mill cars going to a smelter. Of

From: Alan Lambert (Operations) 1. The way real railroads do it. They drop off a full boxcar at a trackside warehouse to be unloaded. Car gets unloaded, they come and pick up boxcar move it to a

Why not ask the original poster what he meant by the word operations? Andy Jackson Bellflower CA

Bill, I would hope it is clearer after all the discussion. "Operations" means different things to different people. To some it is simply that the train is running, the locomotive is "operating"

*belly laugh* Peter --

Duncan, Please help me a bit. I have been following this thread but am now a bit confused. I believe my issue is that I do not understand what is being represented by the term “operations”. I

I have been watching this thread and can't refrain from commenting. I think Sergent couplers work fine on a a layout out designed for them. The height needs to be lower than what you traditionally

This post puts everything in perspective which boils down to,"what each individual's likes & dislikes are." This applies to scale modeled & right on down the line. All posts here have been very

George, And you are overlooking one very important point. I said, ". . . in my experience Sergents do not work well." And in my experience they do not. Period. And then I was

Wow I've tried to follow all of this the last couple of days and I think part of the problem might be a persons definition of operations. I've seen the word applied to layouts with automated

A longer answer is, from Sergent - probably no; if you do it yourself then possibly yes. A YouTube video exists of someone who has done this though they give no details on what they did to do

The short answer is no. Read the material on the Sergent web site again, carefully. Rex Beistle ---In SergentEng@..., <gossport43@...> wrote : snip I see where Sergent is offering to have a