Mike Bett said:
I have a rake of 3 LGB 30730 passenger cars and one combine 31710 which I run with my 23851 Mallet, all with standard LGB couplings. I am experiencing fairly frequent involuantry uncouplings whilst running.
Any suggestions for a cure, might knuckle couplings be a possible answer?
Mike here is this eternal problem. I decided to opt out of knuckles for this very reason, and go back, retrograde, I think, to the hooks. Two hooks I would say are better than knuckles. If your problems arise for the same reason as I have, that is track subsidence, two hooks will give you less trouble. Snag is, sometime getting hooks in place of knuckles on some locos is very tricky. I have been trying for two days to get a US Trains loco changed from knuckle to hook, and I just cannot get a suitable conversion. I am going to try to run the loco with the loop only, and hope for the best. I have read in this forum of people who have rakes permanent coupled use string wire and so on. I must say though that I have little or no problem with my small LGB locos and typical rolling stock, it's the big stuff where the problems arise