I am rebuilding a 3659 dump car that does not have electric couplers. I assumed that they had been removed at some point, but further detailed examination leads me to think that the trucks never had the coupler coil. The center tube that supports the coil is in place - which is odd, because it would have to be removed to remove the coil. Nothing appears to have been disturbed, and if the coils were removed, why put the support tube back? The pictures show the tabs that would have to be straightened out to remove the tube. If I were going to remove the coils, I would pull out the upright pieces that support the coil. The box couplers are the late type. As far as I know, cars without electric couplers did not have the coil support. Did this come with an inexpensive uncatalogued set, or was it possibly made near the end of train production in 1942 and coupler coils were not available?
