@irish rifle posted:The cars are beautiful. I received my Renken milk car a few days ago. Like you, however, I was disappointed that the couplers are not articulated, so I won't buy any more of the new milk cars. I am not worried about derailments with my new milk car, as my curves are all O72 or larger, and I will also place the Renken car between two of the old Lionel milk cars that have articulated couplers.
Hopefully, Lionel will go back to installing articulated couplers for all of its freight cars in the very near future. I still don't understand why they downgraded their couplers by making them fixed. I'm planning to speak to Ryan about this issue at the York Meet.
Pat
Pat,
Speaking to someone from Lionel at York is the BEST thing to do. Get the info straight from them. As you know, all I do is design the paint schemes and graphics. I have no input on the mechanical aspects of the cars.
Stu
