Strummer posted:Just got my first "scale" Lionel freight car:
It's #6-27356, and the details are unbelievable; seems everything (except maybe the air hoses) that could possibly been added was done so...and it rolls smooth as silk.
Question: this doesn't have those terrible-looking uncoupler "tack tabs" on the bottom of the trucks:
when were they discontinued?
A beautiful model...
Mark in Oregon
PS: please forgive the lousy photograph...
No-tack couplers have been around off and on in different forms "forever". My old fav are these Lionel for the finger tab (1956 #6414 autoloader here) We called them "plate or tab couplers" because a plate vs tack was used below the axles. Higher drag because of blunt axle vs needle point, fast angle, etc. Low slung, solid looking though; low "ground clearance". My new age favs are these MTH open via very small tab slide behind the brake hose, aritculated shaft, and sprung.
Kline's passenger car I have are nice, but no uncoupling by finger unless they are small fingers with a bit of a nail; a little plate down low is all there is.
