Fairly new to 009/H0e, so I was still deciding on the coupling I wanted to use. The standard couplings you get with Roco trains is horrible, very unreliable. I found Bachmann E-Z Mate Mark II couplings and with some adjustment they go perfectly in the loco and coaches. I bought them on eBay from the US, but they still are very cheap. For the Parkside Dundas coach I used Kadee 713/714.
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Kadee 713
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Two Roco coaches with Bachmann coupling, test with different screws
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Left small Roco steam engine, right Roco coach
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If they work as well as they look, they must be good. If I would start from new, I would use something similar.
I have used standard N gauge couplers for over 40 years. They don't look very well, but they work all right and allow reliable shunting. What they don't do very well is remote uncoupling, but that's due to the way I fitted some of them.
I was thinking about N couplers as well, but I didn't really fancy their look. It would have been my second choice, though. J
Sven,
The couplings look very impressive. Are the Bachmann ones the long, medium or short variety?
I did find this eBay store:
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/N-Scale-12-pr-Magnetically-Operated-Knuckle-Couplers-Bachmann-E-Z-Mate-78503-/380394979488?_trksid=p3911.m7&_trkparms=algo%3DLVI%26itu%3DUCI%26otn%3D3%26po%3DLVI%26ps%3D63%26clkid%3D7662855692982123102 (http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/N-Scale-12-pr-Magnetically-Operated-Knuckle-Couplers-Bachmann-E-Z-Mate-78503-/380394979488?_trksid=p3911.m7&_trkparms=algo%3DLVI%26itu%3DUCI%26otn%3D3%26po%3DLVI%26ps%3D63%26clkid%3D7662855692982123102)
Yes, 78501 (long), 78502 (medium) and 78503 (short). I got them from a seller called Thefavoritespot. I had them within a week and could combine the shipping, which was only $6.