N scale couplers - which is best?

Model Railroader General Discussion (Model Railroader)
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Ok, I’m sure this topic has been discussed before, so I apologize. But I am looking for input from others with more experience. I have about 30 locomotives and 100 pieces of rolling stock and passenger cars. All with whatever stock knuckle couplers they came with. This has created a few problems with uncoupling, re coupling, detaching when slack in consist while on the main line and so on…

I am considering the time consuming and expensive process of converting them all over to 1 or 2 brands for improved performance and convenience while performing switching operations. Any advice as to which brand offers a good continued coupled connection, yet is still fairly easy to manually uncouple using a small screwdriver or tool? I would love to hear your thoughts based on your experience. Thank you in advance. Cheers!

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Micro-Trains

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When I was in N scale, Microtrains couplers were the only way to go.

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Unless… you were running 200 car trains on NTrack modules. If you are doing thios you need a 1 piece coupler made specifically for long trains…

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Anyway… Microtrains is your answer.

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-Kevin

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Micro trains couplers for me. If your patience isn’t the best like mine, get the assembled ones. Check their website for specifics.

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Micro trains, I use them since they exist.

Formely Kadee, they become MT couplers after a change in the family buisiness

And the clone which were offered when some patend of Kadee and MT were over were never as reliable as MT

Even if the discussion is a never ending story about the subject, I have never found allthese clones and MT are coupling correctly together.

To avoid any trouble I prefer to use one brand of couplers, which is MT named the cadillac of the couplers.

This is really not usurpated.

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I have used Kadee which became Micro trains from the time I started in N-scale back in 1971.

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Since you maay be doing a bunch, I would check them for position, and “correctness”, before you start, and do the worst, first. Maybe you’ll even find that there are only a few troublesome ones, and save yourself some work.