LGB Amfleet Cars

Garden Railroading
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Hi guys,

I need some help. Has anyone changed the couplers on these cars, and if so what did you find worked best? I’m having trouble with the LGB couplers. I would like to keep knuckles on them because they just wouldn’t look right with hook and loop.

Thank you,

Mark

Here are some pictures of it running at Fairplex.

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Superchief,

That is a gorgeous train! [8D][tup]

In case no one here is able to help you, consider contacting the model railroad dealer listed. One of the store’s reps is familiar with LGB and Europeon equipment:

Here is the link to their website http://www.hrtrains.com/

The street address and phone number are listed below:

H & R Trains Incorporated 6901 US Highway 19 N, Pinellas Park, FL 33781 Telephone: (727) 526-4682

I hope this is helpful,

God Bless and High Greens

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Thank you for the help!

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Your’re welcome, Superchief [:D]

If you contact them, please post back and let us know how it went. Let them know that you’re calling or emailing from Florida.

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I changed over to Kadee couplers on my cars and they work great . I made the pad for them out of plastic and glued and screwed the pad to the car and them mounted the kadee couplers as normal . I also wanted to lower the car so it would look better with my MTH locomotive so I changed the trucks to USA passenger car trucks . I dont think there is a prototype for the truck swap but I dont care . The Kadees look and work great .

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Thank you Mike. That looks great. I think that might be the direction that I have to go. I would assume the cars look better being closer together, do you have trouble with turns at all?

Thank you,

Mark

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Hi Mark , thanks. Yes the cars are closer together and it does improve the look . My railroad uses 20’ diameter curves and there is no problem on the curves . I have one car with Kadee G scale and one with their #1 guage couplers . The #1 's are smaller and look better but I have noticed that they can’t handle longer trains as well . They will pull apart under heavy loads . I will only use the G guage couplers from now on . If your trains are short then go with the #1’s.

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Then I’ll probably have to use the g scale couplers. The train has 5 lgb amfleet, 1 material handling car, and 1 aristo baggage. But during the fair we like to add 4 more amfleets that were donated to us. So it looks like I have my new project after Septmember.

Thanks for the help,

Mark