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I attended the show on the 20th as well (Pittsburgh Expo Mart).
It was grand with all the manufacturer's vendor tables, the layouts, and I found some rolling stock I had been searching for as well.
And, of course, because of the above reasons, the manufacturers no longer produce items with the old coupler.
So the knuckle couplers maintain all the "pros" minus the "cons."