8. I clipped off the sides of the old mounting area
and the screw post mount to make a flat surface.
I then assembled a #5 box with a #24 Kadee cou-
pler. Kadee calls for a Bachmann GS-4 to have a
#37, but the #24 is shorter and more prototypical.
Again a screw is used. The hole was reamed with
the 3/32” drill.
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9. Finished tender coupled to the REA baggage car.
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Upgrading passenger car couplers - 4
STEP 2: New coupler mount
Continued ...
Dirk Reynolds has been model
railroading since the dinosaurs roamed
the earth. His family comes from Dupo,
Illinois, and his Grandfather engineered
the “doodlebug” motor car that ran from
St. Louis, Missouri to Marion, Illinois.
Dirk also ran his own hobby shop for
nine years in Dupo, under the name
of Reynolds Railways. It closed in early
2010, but he is now operating out of his
home in Columbia, Illinois under the name Dirk’s Trains.
He attends all the local train shows, and runs The Warrior
Express show that began in February 11, 2012 in Arnold,
Missouri. Contact Dirk at
MRH-May 2014
