Re: C&S RPO 11: couplers

Posted by Keith Hayes on Oct 20, 2018; 7:54pm
URL: http://c-sng-discussion-forum.254.s1.nabble.com/C-S-RPO-11-Linn-Moedinger-s-Shapeways-Print-in-Sn3-and-Hon3-tp12427p12542.html

While gathering parts for this project I realized that I was running low on Kadee #26 couplers.

As I have a bunch of unbuilt kits here at the home hobby shop (a problem I suspect others have as well), I don't want to have to stop construction to paint a coupler or wheelset. So I buy some extras and paint them, then trade out the painted parts for unpainted parts in the new kit. I also have found the hard way (multiple times) that one should never brush paint a coupler.

PBL has been issuing kits with trucks and couplers for a while, and I think I have metal wheels for all the older kits that came with plastic. But I haven't built a kit in a while. Instead I have been focusing on the tank car fleet, Phase I coals and some passenger cars. Consequently, I used up my stock of painted #26s.

So, I got some packages of couplers and got them painted, before I lug the compressor upstairs to blow out the sprinkler system  (It snowed last weekend in Denver).

Jim Courtney suggested some 16" On3 MacLeod Western brake wheels would scale out about right for the RPO (I am partial to the large wheels on the C&S head end cars). I ordered some, and they will work out great.

While visiting Caboose,  I also purchased a Soundcar,  keep-alive and speaker. Now all I am lacking is the needle beam/queenpost bit.