Thank you Jonathan.
I found the couplers stapled to the side of the foam packing. It's easy to miss.
Thanks for the heads up on the switch. It's still a beautiful looking set.
Bill

I checked out your friend's site. It does not solve the problem. The cars are missing the long drawbars. Please send me replacements or authorize my hobby store to give them to me: Great lakes Hobby in sterling Heights, MI.. This is so frustrating. Your phone tech, I think her name is Angela, told me to replace the couplers with EZ-Mate couplers. It will not work according to your friends site. Am I the only one on this merry-go-round? The box has a great big DCC logo and a proclamation that the set is complete ready to run. This is simply not so. The engine should at least have a decoder to make it a legitimate DCC set.

Is there no one at Bachman who knows how to remedy this? I am going to take the set to the hobby shop where I bought it and see if anyone there can help me.

  Can someone please tell me how to couple the passenger cars in the Acela Express HO kit?
The engines have extensions out the back but the cars only have female links. I wanted to set this up with my Christmas display. Also, those long cars will not navigate around the 42" radius they supply.
The detail is great but the instructions and the DVD say nothing about the Acela. The nose cone fell off, the pantograph won't stay down. You need to buy a separate controller and a decoder to make it a DCC...
Don't like to rant but Damn!
Thanks,
Bill