In the picture of this locomotive is this a couplier upgrade for this locomotive?
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It would really help to know what the product number of that locomotive is. That coupler upgrade is for TMCC equipped steamers, is that a TMCC upgraded locomotive? The 6-18042 is a conventional model, that would preclude installing electrocouplers.
I believe it is one of the first TMCC locomotives released by Lionel.
6-18042
I thought it was conventional. However, in looking at the pictorial diagram, I don't see where they brought the coupler signal from the LCRU back to the tender, so you'd have to address that to install the coupler. There is an unused blue wire in the 4-wire tether, so that might not be that hard...
