How the !#$% do I manually open the coupler on this?

if it's an MTH, I believe holding the bell and whistle button down at the same time will trigger the electrocoupler, not positive on that though.

Instructions:  Have the engine in neutral with the power up and press the whistle button, you should hear a clank, then press the whistle button again and you will hear the coupler energize.  See the MTH manual.  

Read the manual? That's no fun. I was hoping there was a way to open it manually, though. Guess not. Thanks for the info, gents!

Not with a coil coupler unfortunately.  At least MTH has a way to open it without using the command remote like you would with the Lionels (I'm all Lionel and Williams).  That makes it a little better for conventional operators.

Try the MTH remote commander. It's a 40 dollar way to have DCS on your layout.
It won't do everything the big DCS system will do and you can only run one engine at a time but it'll wet your whistle.
You'll love it.

David

We're not supposed to do things manually with our trains anymore.  I'm sure the legislation making it illegal to do so will come out the of teh House committee this fall.

 

I think the train companies are giving up on those of us who actually like to touch our trains.  The Remote Contol craze is trying to usurp any efforts to really interact with them.  Some people apparantly can't even go to the john without a remote control, so toilets are coming out with them now.

 

In another generation or two, we'll be jellyfish stuck in water tanks with our heads linked by wire or feeding tube to everything else.  The next generation after that will die off, of course, and deservedly so.

Wouldn't the cars being coupled to have manual operating couplers? Or are they the post war style sliding shoe coil couplers that require a UCS track?

A toilet with a remote??? Man I gotta have one of those!!!!!!!!
Now let me get this straight? If I get a remote controlled toilet and since I'm always loosing the remote, if I get a "Clapper" so I can clap my hands to find the remote.

Then I'll have a Crapper with a Clapper????????
Barry will have to write another book on toilet DCS "The O my God" compendium
Boy this remote control is confusing........NOT

David

Flash;

Thats how I couple up cars to an MTH engine before powering up a layout.

Open the mating coupler on the head end car. Those are still all manual, tho I've been asking for a Mini-PS board to run a single proto-coupler for a couple years.

I really want to be able to drop a few cars any time at any place. That means at least some of the cars need a Remote coupler or I have to put Uncoupling track sections everywhere. The Scaletrax uncoupling sections are very long, they mess up my layout design.

And yes, I know real trains have a person manually uncoupling them, but I'm not an entire yard crew, I can't be in multiple places at once and I'm not running back and forth like a yo-yo.

Have you tried sticking a bent paperclip directly into the coupler body?  The plunger is right there, and it opens mine without an issue.

Three intelligent things said:

Flash wondered about opening the CAR coupler for mating; too straightforward? (Or,
maybe the car is out of reach; makes sense.)

Someone suggested the DCS Remote Commander at forty bucks. I have one; worth far
more than that (don't tell Mr. Wolf) but if your loco isn't PS2 or PS3, no help.

Someone else suggested reading the manual if it's PS1 and following the instructions.

I do not understand the aversion to reading manuals pertaining to interesting
equipment - like model trains. If someone won't read the (thin) manual, my sympathy is
minimal, kinda like my sympathy for people who bite it by jumping out of perfect-
ly good airplanes for "fun".

I have that engine and it has PS2.  In order to open the coupler in a conventional environment, you must press the bell button once and then press the whistle/horn button three times. Also, make sure you do 1/2 second button presses with 1/2 second pauses in between them.