@pdxtrains posted:I've resorted to gluing shut couplers on a few of my subway cars. This is a problem I've encountered, only I don't have the LoV set. Mine happened on the World's Fair set, and the P2 #1 train (white.)
Hello PDX --
Heh -- I have a huge ( 39' x 15 x 39" x 15) HO Scale Mainline Railroad "modular wall shelves" Layout and run 12 to 16 car locomotive hauled passenger trains. It surrounds my center-of-room huge O Scale NYC EL & Trolley Layout with aisles between the O Scale modular layout and the HO Scale wall layout.
Besides the usual HO Scale horn hook couplers -- a number of my cars have various brands-types of working HO Scale Knuckle couplers. Some of these also tend to fail at times on certain cars -- more of an occasional nuisance than a very regular event.
However, heh, when your passenger train goes around the layout a number of times successfully, and then you don't notice that 4 or 5 tail end cars are suddenly missing from its rear --- and soon find them being PUSHED by the locomotive at the head end of the same train doing the entire route-loop -- that IS ANNOYING !!! And a P I T A !! Sometimes causes a derailment additionally.
So those affected cars knuckle couplers get GLUED and locked shut. NO MORE PROBLEMS !! Many of my long distance HO passenger trains remain the same car-consists. It's no issue to me to lift a car-end up slightly to uncouple or couple-add an additional car. Worth the tiny effort to NOT have any more mid train uncouplings "on the run.."
Regards - Joe F
