*R*O*F*L*M*A*O* :tb-biggrin::tb-cool: **Found this exploded coupler on the deadline in Holbrook Az... .
So... when someone knocks a loco off the layout and it lands coupler-first on the floor, I can take the remains of that coupler and simply put them on the roadbed somewhere and be truer to the prototype? Oh great, I bet some rivet-counter would then tell me that my coupler fragments weren't right for my home roads but looked more like C&O coupler fragments or something like that.
Accumate went to a lot of trouble to be able to get an exploding coupler just like the prototype. I bet on ebay in a few years they will bring a premium price.
Well, I am suprised no one asked yet... Did you pick them up, polish them, and set them up in your train room on display?
LOL...NOoooooooo. That coupler was wayyyyyyyyyyyy to BIG and heavy. BUT... I did pick up a fairly nice spike...a 1/2 sliver they had cut off the end of a rail....and the connecting pin from that coupler. I was down the tracks about a half mile from the M.O.W. equipment and saw headlights. I though it was a train coming but realized the lights where stationary. I drove back up the street and the MOW crew was working on something in their truck. Since I felt just a little guilty about the items I had picked up...I showed them what I had and asked them if it was ok to keep them. They looked it me kinda funny but said it was fine. They also told me that it was ok to watch the trains go by...but to make sure I stayed off the mainlines. I was surprised at both remarks...seeings how I have heard the railroads are pretty leary of anyone being around the tracks. So all in all...I had a pretty good day. :tb-cool: .
Can you imagine what a rapido would look like in real life? Big 'ol chunk of metal big as an elephant hangin' off the front of a box car! That would be a mell of a looking hess. LOL
Russell Straw, You Da MAN!! That is just about the PERFECT commentary on the Rapido/Arnold Coupler; I Love It! It's also a Damn Good Commentary on WHY photographs can no longer be accepted as evidence in court. Because it would be VE-RY difficult, at least, to prove that photo was fake, unless the "expert witness" was a model railroader - and even then...:mconfused::we2-policeman::tb-biggrin::tb-biggrin:
I guess that would be a limiting factor. Kinda like a broken fire hydrant I found laying next to a rural roadside. I had always wanted one, and stopped to pick it up and "toss" it in the back of my truck. My greed, and wants forbaide me to do the math, lol.. When I got out, and tried to lift it, I then realized that the plug alone probably weighed 150 lbs, not to mention the 4 foot section of 6" black iron pipe bolted to the bottom side of it, which probably weighed another 200+ lb.. lol.. I came to the reality, I would have to wait a bit before I owned an old abandoned fire plug..lol. Good end to the story tho. I do have one now, and it is a center piece of my garden, even tho it is not the one I ran up on that day. That said, an exploded coupler would be a cool conversation piece displayed in a train room tho wouldn't it? hehhe
That exploded coupler is setting between the rails on a sidding with a derailer on it. I dont suppose the track is used much. I may go back someday and ask if I can have it. My trains are in a remodeled travel trailer. Those coupler parts might just look cool scattered about out front by the trailer hitch...hmmmm. :tb-cool: .
Yes they would. Still LOL'ing at the comments here. Got to love that coupler on the MPL crummy. Nice work. laugh:
