Does anyone know if Walthers, Athearn, A-Line, and Intermountain HO Containers will work together. The one car I have is the Walthers 53’ NSC Well Car, but Walthers only manufactures containers up to 48’, so I would like to use Athearn or Intermountain containers in it. The problem is I don’t know whether the pins that hold the containers on top of each other will work Walthers to Athearn or Walthers to Intermountain, etc. Anyone know?
Stupidly they are all different. Athearn has round pins on the bottom, Walthers are oval, and Concor the pins are on the top! I have all three.
[banghead]
I agree…[banghead], but what of Intermountain and A-Line?
Don’t own any IMR or A-line yet but may eventually. Since I model Rio Grande up to 1990, I have at least 8 5-units well cars sets to populate.
I’ve had to mix some up and if you don’t mind making things permanent, I filed off the posts and glued them stacked so they will not move regardless of the make.
yeah, its dumb the manufacturers all can’t play nice together and make a compatible mounting tab for stacking containers. It isn’t like we are going to buy only one brand! Sheesh!
Thats like using different coupler types between Atlas, Walthers and Athearn etc. Of course KD has always been the solution to that until the patent expired.