Bachmann's New Operating Knuckle Couplers in N scale

[railtwister]

Hi Mr. Bachmann,

Especially now that Bachmann has released some of it's N scale locos with the new operating knuckle magnetic couplers, one issue that needs to be addressed as soon as possible is making those couplers available separately for converting items that are still only available with the older Rapido or Dummy Knuckle type couplers. Making body mount draft gear boxes for these couplers available at the same time would be very helpful to those of us that don't want to run only unit trains (dependent on which couplers the cars have) on our N scale layouts. because Bachmann's new coupler is slightly larger than the existing MTL couplers, they might also appeal to the HOn3 guys as well if they come with draft gear that can be screwed onto the cars under-body. Because of variations in design and size, it's also usually better to stay with the same brand of coupler on all of your equipment if you can, so there should be an adequate market for separate couple sales.

Thanks,
Bill