Old N Scale Trivia

[Doug G.]

Sorry.   I skim too much.   

It's OK, Ron. I have done the same thing before or, my biggest goof is writing a post before reading all of the posts in a thread, not noticing there is more than one page. So then, I have to read all those posts to make sure nobody said the same thing before I did.



Doug

[nkalanaga]

My "bending" on the 000 was even simpler than most of you seem to think.  I didn't bend the loop, just straightened the hook a little bit, so it was more-or-less pointing straight down.  The hook then dropped into the Rapido, and the 000 loop wasn't involved at all.  It made the 000 cars a little harder to couple to each other automatically, but then, they didn't couple that smoothly most of the time anyway.

So, no, the post on the early Rapido wouldn't have made any difference, the 000 couplers would have coupled anyway.

That 000 coupler isn't as odd as it looks.  Basically it's the same coupler used on many British 00 models.

That early N scale hook coupler is one I don't remember ever seeing.  I always wondered just what the posts were supposed to couple to, never having seen anything other than Rapidos and the 000 hook and loop.