I haven’t seen this posted here, so here it goes. It looks like Kadee will be announcing “new generation couplers”. Very little detail, but here is a little preview with no narrative so they keep you guessing. Not the most glamorous teaser video, but intriguing nevertheless. Couplers look prototypical in shape too, with no spring for the catching knuckle. Check it out.
Oh oh oh, I want that, I want that now!!! (I feel like a kid in a candy store)
I wonder how in the heck it works?
Aren’t those intended for larger scales (O through F)?
Mark
I don’t know of an F scale, but the starter kit is in G scale, so yes. This is not an HO thing. Back to the Sergents for me.
Actually, it says remote un-coupling, and yes, it’s intended for scales O to F, as shown in the OP’s link.
Wayne
Oh geeeeeeeeeeeez. No HO then back to the drawing board.
For HO’rs nothing to see here , move on. [:(]
MTH did it! [(-D]
MTH did it so well it’s the first thing I removed from my 2 Ace’s. They are oversized, look like hell, and didn’t work as good as their video’s by a long shot.
Well I enjoyed the ride while it lasted. Advert pointing to that page didn’t specify scale, so seeing two rail I naturally assumed HO.
Having modeled in G Scale the spikes were a dead giveaway to me.
Well, well, well, isn’t it about time? people have been waiting for this for 20 years, the goofiest thing ever seen on a layout is the giant hand with a bamboo chop-stick uncoupling a car, this will be the biggest selling item in model railroading, far better than the tinny sound systems(thats the next item to be fixed) and people worried about availability for HO, wait! it will be here sooner than you think.
Ummmm, Ok??[%-)]
They’ve done it. MTH (which was a joke) and a remote system was put into play a year or three prior. Too expensive. And besides that, I really don’t want a DCC systwem to uncouple with. If yoy figure twice as many couplers as you have freight cars, you ewither have to have twice as many addresses or some way of tellign it whcih coupler to undo. If it’s not DCC, then there’s a whole 'nudder lectrics system running around. I’d rather have my magnetic wand and my not tinny sounding
than trying to mess with remote uncoupling.
Well before MTH several people did it in HO using a regular #5, so no more oversized than normal.
I know Dick Bronson of RR-CirKits made one - and it didn’t move the coupler up and down, either. Several years ago I spent some time at his table at the Timonium train show goign over the Tower Controller and some of his stuff and he had the remote uncoupling loco out as well. He no longer has the links on his site about how he did it, I forget if his was a pager motor type or muscle wire actuated.I doubt any of the experimenters who made such things bothered to patent it so MTH probably owns that by now. But they definitely did NOT get there first, in HO. Or O, since Lionel had 2 types of remote uncouplers before there ever was an MTH.
–Randy
The rail-tie relationship, and the loco being some kind of ‘critter,’ were a dead giveaway that the video was showing something a lot bigger than any models I own. Guess I’ll have to keep doing the ‘Kadee dance’ if I want to use the delayed uncoupling feature - and movable under-track magnets to avoid false uncoupling.
The dream was nice, while it lasted.
Chuck (Modeling Central Japan in September, 1964)
Well for u HO guys kije me, i know MTH has DCC couplers on some of their new EMD SD70ACE, so give them a shoutm they might sell u some by themselves. ,Travis
Even if they do, you can still claim “prior art”-- and if they take it to court, its their own patent they stand to lose.
John
“Oh geeeeeeeeeeeez. No HO then back to the drawing board” - Motley
“MTH did it! 
” - Arjay1969
- yeah, and in the process, they screwed up CV29 so badly you can’t change NDOT.
Who needs THAT?
Or maybe MTH or Kadee purchased the technology off him.