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How Important are Kadee Couplers?
Wesley Drummond: I use Kadee’s exclusively! I guess its a hold-over from my HO days but I really never found a coupler that I liked better, that worked better and was so reliable day after operating day. Also, I appreciate the effort that Kadee goes to, to insure that we in the hobby have info to help us make the coupler selection and even the modifications necessary to retro fit them to a particular piece of garden train equipment.
Bud Steinhoff: I use Aristo knuckle couplers on all my various brand 135 cars and 25 engines. I started with the Aristo coupler and stayed with them because to me they are reliable and inexpensive for my garden trains, especially that the Aristo equipment come with that coupler. I modify the couplers so they do not look so clumsy. Kadee's are great, but expensive and even if I wanted to change, it is too late now and I am satisfied with what I have. James Scofield: I use Kadee's as a holdover from HO. I like to operate and there is nothing better than the knuckle coupler with delayed coupler action. The delayed action is great in Garden Trains and eliminates a lot of uncoupler magnets on every track. Kadee is also very helpful in answering questions when I have had a problem in the past with installation. They have always been the premiere coupler for many, many years. Walter C. Bringsauf: Granted, KD couplers are a bit more expensive then other Garden Train couplers, but the reliability and ease of use more than makes up for the higher price. Also the wide variety of shanks offered by Kadee makes it easy to custom fit any type car or Loco. I have used Kadee's since they first came out in HO and have never considered using any other coupler, and I have used quite a few in the past 50 years. |
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How to use Bridges on Your Garden Railroad
Tim Anderson: Bridge's add character to a garden railroad. Logging railroads probably created some of the most interesting "bridges". Today with the weight of the new garden train engines the bridges have to work just like the prototype. Engines are just too expensive to build a cheap bridge to save a few cents.
Edward Stempien: I have a small garden trains set-up in my back yard. In it, I have incorporated three bridges, all scratch-built. The bridges create the system. I wish that my terrain (flat coastal South Carolina), were more conducive to the use of bridges. They lend realism to the garden railroad and give the opportunity to fantasize at being a Civil Engineer. Ed Frey: Bridges on a Garden Railway are of almost universal appeal. Ever notice how many ads, magazine covers, and layout photos show the trains on a bridge? I can't imagine a railroad without bridges. Maybe it's because of the aspiring "civil engineer" in most of us, but more practically, it's usually because we need a place for water to go, we have a topographical gap to cross, or we need to get one track over another. Based on comments from our railroader and non-railroader visitors to our garden railroad, they are seen as focal points that add interest and plausibility to the right-of-way. Besides, I just enjoy building them David Clapper: Bridges and railroads share a long history. The railroad's need for a nearly level roadbed made bridges necessary where the common wagon roads in the early days tended to follow the contours of the landscape. So, a garden railroad without a bridge is quite unusual. |
Garden Railroad Builder's Logs
There is no better way to share your railroad than with a GRBLOGS. Garden Railroad Builder's Logs is a new blog service of LSOL.com. You can post information in an easy-to-use blog format as often as you like to keep people updated on the developments of your Garden Railroad. Keep your projects organized online in individual projects and show your photos, videos and more online for the whole world to see. Plus you can read other blogs and comment on all the exciting GRBLOGS that others have posted at the site.Come see the first, the original and the best web blog dedicated to Garden Railroads. Remember: Some people talk about what they are going to do, and others actually do it. Come show people what you have done.
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