Hey fellas,
I'm filming a review for Lionel's new Conrail Big Blue freight set, which contains the new 86' hi-cube cars equipped with the scale coupler mounting pads.
With most other manufacturers (MTH, Atlas, Weaver, etc) they usually just put the mounting holes under the car and then leave the rest to you. So for me that simply means buying a Kadee coupler pack and installing them at the proper height. I think MTH packages a spacer piece to help out with the height, but it's fairly self-explanatory.
Lionel, however, has packaged some strange extra pieces to be used in adding scale couplers and I have no clue what to make of them.
In the pictures below you can see that I've installed the coupler box that Lionel supplies...but they don't supply a coupler (?)...so what's the point? Am I supposed to use their gear and then buy a coupler on my own? That seems strange, so my instinct is to just ignore the extra parts and install a Kadee coupler in the normal way that I'd install them on any other car.
It doesn't help that Lionel didn't package any instructions with the 86' hi-cube cars. Maybe it's really simple and I'm just over-thinking it?
Does anyone know what the story is with this extra hardware and what one needs to do to properly use it? I'd appreciate it if someone could clear this up.
Thanks,
Eric Siegel
