Charles,

Those articles are excellent!! thanks a lot for that. 

I'm getting tempted to try these babies on my trains as soon as possible!!!!

Thanks a lot Glenn, it's really helpful. I guess, I'll have to ask for your help to find me an online shop if I decide to buy them.

Is it really necessary that we use the Magnets provided by Micro-Trains beneath the tracks to uncouple? I mean, is there any other operation that happens during uncoupling, other than magnetic forces acting on the couplers to pull them down and uncouple? In that case it will be possible to use commercially available electromagnets and it will be possible to use the facility in more locations at a lower cost, isn't it?

I have also heard about the "Delay effect"? Any idea?

Sorry for bombarding you guys with all the questions, but i really don't know anything about this... Thanks again for all the help.

Thanks for all the inputs guys. It's really helpful.  :)I think I will have to think again about Bachmann dummy couplers.

Glenn, have you ever used Unimate couplers? Is it possible to do magnetic coupling and uncoupling in that? What about Atlas AccuMate couplers? Bachmann is using these in some of it's locomotives, is it possible to get it in some online shop or something?

Thanks a lot Charles... That info is definitely very helpful. I had an impression that Dummy knuckle couplers are only for show, that don't work at all! (because of the name off course). But at least when I know that they work, I can at least replace the horrible looking Rapido couplers with them. Anyway I need to uncouple manually now, so  why not make them look better.

I have one more question. Will these dummy couplers couple with MT or AccuMate operational couplers?

Hi,

I'm interested to know more about N scale knuckle couplers. I know that Bachmann has some dummy knuckle coupler. What does "dummy" mean? Is it possible to do regular operation (coupling and un-coupling) if those are installed? Is it possible to use un-couplers?

Also they have some freight cars that come with AccuMate operational knuckle coupler. What should be done if I want to use those with my regular cars? Does B'mann provide any conversion pack or something?

B'mann, I would really appreciate your help on this.

Thanks!

Kaustav

Thanks very much Scott. I have also come to the same conclusion. I did some work on the track and now it's a little better. But I think I need to do some more work before it's completely eradicated.

@Paul:

Thanks for the guidance Paul... Actually I'm aware that my train is N scale and this is a General Discussion Forum. But I apologize for not mentioning it in my first post. I'm new to the forum and didn't notice that there is an N scale forum as well, that's why I posted it here. Anyways, thanks for all your help. I'll move to N scale forum.

Thank you very much, all of you. Surely I'll check the HO Section to find an answer. I checked the screw and it seemed to me that it's OK, but still I had loosened it a little bit, but the problem still persists. As far as I have observed, it seems to me that  it's getting derailed not because it's too tight, rather because it's too flexible.

Right now the max radius of my track is the originally supplied 11.25" curves. I have ordered a few flex tracks to make more wider curves.

Anyway, thanks again. Paul, according to you what is the minimum radius I should use for this loco? It's a typical 4-8-4 northern with around 5" of length.

Hi All,

I need help with something. I have bought a new Bachmann Empire Builder set that comes with the awesome 4-8-4 Northern loco. Everything is fine, but the guide wheels of my loco is getting derailed very often. The train is able to run in that condition though, but you can understand. Can anybody tell me please what adjustment could improve the performance?

Also, since this is my first electric train set, I would like to know more about the maintenance part as well.

Thanks a lot and have a good day.