Coupler Height

There are several options available from Kadee that may solve your problem.  Here is a post on the Three Rail Scale forum that pictures the options.  The Kadee 847 underset shank would raise the coupler slightly. 3/32" Same mounting height.  

Helpful diagrams from the Kadee site. A lot of information on this page.
Note that 1 1/16" is 11/16"
Kadee 805

Kadee 806 short

Kadee 847 Underset shank. Coupler center and mounting height are the same.
Kadee 742 Overset shank Increases mounting height.

The answer is: Kadee, O Scale Coupler Height Gauge#812 - http://www.kadee.com/htmbord/page812.htm

I works great and necessary when doing conversion to Kadee couplers.

Dan

The kadees are not the problem, it's the 3-rail couplers.  As the engines have electro couplers, I need a transition car.  The cars, Atlas, are all low.  Even if I were not using the Troop cars, the Atlas cars would be a problem.  I'm a long time HO modeler, I know all about kadee.  I'm thinking MTH trucks on the Atlas cars, but just not sure how.

Do others have this problem with Atlas cars. I have a few but no passenger cars and have not had this problem. Just wondering, might it be a bad batch of cars.

Al

I have many Atlas freight cars, and there are no height differences in them.  Only the passenger cars.  I found that "odd" too.  But I doubt it is limited to my three cars.  Rarely are passenger cars mixed with freight so the height descrepancy probably doesn't present itself often.  I may just run the train without them for now.  These are undec. cars so I may even sell them, who knows!