picked up some new IHC passenger but of course with X2F couplers. So what kadee would be the best bet?
I don’t know if you want to consider this, but I had some older Rivarossi cars that I wanted to fit with new couplers. I didn’t really care if they were truck or body mounted since I mainly run them at shows once in a while.
I found that McHenry makes some with a long arm that snaps right into the truck. The model number just depends on what you have.
http://www.athearn.com/Search/Default.aspx?CatId=THCC
Jim
David,
http://www.kadee.com/conv/pdf/i140.pdf
And…
For streamlined 4-wheel, #508
Take Care! [:D]
Frank
If you are not going to switch out cars you could use drawbars. Screw one end of the drawbar to one end of a car. On the other end install a screw and cut the head off so it makes a pin to go in a hole in the other end of the drawbar. No sense spending money for kadees.
Although I would not consider anything else than Kadees for my freight cars, I put McHenry long shanked couplers on my IHC passenger cars because I have some tight curves on the layout and couldn’t use body mounted couplers for such long cars.
I didn’t have any problem with them.
The kadee 505 mentioned above is for a heavyweight car (6 wheel truck), use the #508 if your cars are lightweight (4 wheel trucks). I have used both and they work well; just read the instructions carefully for the first couple.