McHenry couplers

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Hello!
Athearn has released some N-scale cars now equipped with McHenry couplers. Do anyone knows where to find more information about replacement couplers and trucks for locomotives and cars? I saw Leo Bicknells test of them on http://realityreduced.com and they seems to be very good. I would like to buy some of them to replace the couplers that isn't working well on some cars I have.

 

[UP2CSX]

Athearn owns McHenry Couplers. It would appear that any N scale McHenry must have been produced just for those Athearn N scale cars since neither the McHenry or Horizon Hobbies web site show any N scale couplers available. Micro Trains makes a large assortment of N scale couplers and most modelers use them if they want knuckle type couplers. I don't know the quality of the McHenry in N scale but they have been marginal at best in HO compared to Kadee, which use the basis for the Micro Train design.

 

[WCWBrassHat]

The early reports on another forum from some guys who had done some testing are good. They have to be a huge improvement of the Model Die Casting coupler that was used on the early Athearn N scale cars after they bought MDC.

I have not had a real good experience with the Accumate couplers. I hope the McHenry's are better as they as suppose to be a direct replacement in the Accumate coupler box.

The Micro Train coupler is more than a Kadee copy, it is a Kadee. Kadee went into N scale coupler and then car production many years before the two brothers split the company into kadee and Micro Trains.

 

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I did send a question to Athearn about the couplers and I got an answer yesterday.
They wrote "Please note that we are currently planning to offer these couplers separately sometime later this year. We will make an announcement in our on-line newsletter when we are ready. ...".
I'm looking forward to learn more about it.