Lionel Amtrak Acela Owners !!

Greg,

Did you buy the 2005 (doors open automatically) or was it the 2021 Acela (doors need to be pushed to open) version?

Hey there Bruce, thanks for chiming in, I purchased the 2021 Acela at York n April.

Greg,

Take a miniature flat file and insert into the loop coupler. Use the file to widen the slot. It will make the pin coupler more easily slide in and out.

Also suggest you look at the tips here:

https://ogrforum.ogaugerr.com/...your-odds-of-success

BRUCE !!  You're a life saver, I will replace the 2 male pin couplers and widen the slots on all cars and THANK YOU for the file with the tips for the rest of the trains little mishaps.  For a moment there i was wondering how I had over 100 views on this topic and nobody had an Acela with similar problems.  Again thank you, now I just have to replace the male pin couplers.  GREG

Greg,

Glad to have helped. The tips and beneficial ideas in the compendium have been contributed from the many OGR forum members who are 2021 Acela owners. Everyone has a goal of helping each other to make this set run successfully.

I was just looking over the Acela drawbars and small phillips head screwdrivers will be a challenge to take them out with, does anyone have any special tooling that they use ??

I've used a 1.6 mm phillips tip. Others may want to chime in here with a different type of tool.

Man, you're on point, I thought I was the only night owl on the forum, Bruce, again thanks a million, I'll go through my tool supply and see if I have one, if not I've already pulled out my Micro-Mark catalog.  Good Nite - MARSHELANGELO

These JIS screwdrivers. Japanese Industrial Standard, work better than American Phillips for most toy trains.

The JIS has a slightly different shape to better fit the JIS screws in most if not all of our trains.

This set from Hozan can be found on Amazon.

Hozan JIS 5

Gd Morning RickO, thanks for tuning in, I had assumed that this thread had closed last night when I was texting with Bruce Brown about the screwdrivers. Your knowledge is deeply appreciated as is his. I immediately ordered some small files and a set of small screwdrivers which hopefully will fulfill my needs but I’ll look into the JIS Set. Everything in this hobby seems to be based on screwdrivers, soldering guns, glue guns etc. if you didn’t have a lot of tools, you’ll soon be amassing some shortly. Thanks RickO, I’ll check it out on Amazon, that’s where my screwdrivers & files will be coming from.