I’m replacing the old horn hook couplers with mchenry couplers but the new couplers are a bit too low to properly couple up. It’s impossible to raise it up do is there a coupler with an offset shank so the coupler head is higher than the shank out of the coupler pocket?
Oops fixed it. Found out the car it was coupled to was riding too high. It couples up to other cars fine. Should have checked other cars too.
That was easy, I’ll let my post stand and find out what I don’t know about Athearn coupler on recent production
They have underset shanks. They come in short medium and long 144, 147 or 141
However the Kadee conversion chart shows a long shank plastic coupler. The coupler box is also different.
Plastic couplers used to be important, if one was consisting Blue Box locos. I suppose that means the frames are hot in horn hook locos
Dan Cortipassi just did a youtube on adjusting coupler height and he filled the frame so the coupler box would fit higher. No one here will suggest that McHenry’s are better than KD.
I didn’t know the Athearn P59PHI came with horn hook couplers. I have 3 of them, in the yellow and blue box, and they all came with Kadee clones.
Mike.
Get a Kadee coupler gauge, and use it on every engine and every piece of rolling stock. Don’t just measure against other trains. They could be incorrect, too, and then you’ll have two sets to fix.
This is from an athearn John Deere box set from many years ago. This engine weighs a lot so it should be a good puller.
Athearn released that set in 2004 or 2005. It was an F59PHI pulling three Bombardier Multi-Level Cars, (two coaches, one cabcar, and one flatcar w/2 tractors.). Another version had the same locomotive pulling four freight cars.
Nothing prototypical here, made up toy.