Hot Water posted:@T1Titan_ZachF posted:Hot Water posted:@T1Titan_ZachF posted:I thought Kadees are for 2 rail trains!!! If people convert everything to kadees you might as well invent a kadee electro-coupler! (In O scale since MTH already made an HO one
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Why? Our layout is 3RS, and all locomotives and rolling stock have been up-graded to Kadee body mounted couplers. Just my opinion but, I'm much more interested in the trains staying coupled together, plus not have to bash cars together in order to get the claw to close & latch. I really don't care about remote/electric uncoupling.
In your opinion, do you think manufactures should factory equip 3 rail trains with kadees for now on?
No, not at all! However, it would be nice if manufacturers (Lionel) offered properly designed MOUNTING PADS for the Kadee gear box & coupler arrangement, on high end scale equipment (like MTH does).
What do Kadee people do when coupling a car to an electro coupler?
Personally, I have no problem doing just that, depending on the manufacturer's quality of their electro-coupler. Many times we have had visitors bring a locomotive over to run, and it couples quite nicely to any of our freight cars (all of which have body mounted Kadee couplers).
Do you scrap an electrocoupler and put a kadee on?
I sure as heck do!!!!!
Thanks for the clarification Hot Water.
