Denny Anspach wrote:

The recent interesting thread on scale couplers and boxes and their
applications motivated me to do some measurements and experimentation
today on two new-in-box Fifth Avenue Car Shops Milwaukee ribside
double door boxcar kits, MILW 6600, and MILW 7037. Both cars had the
standard moulded industry-standard draft gear boxes designed for drop
in Kadee-type couplers, essentially identical to that found with
almost all other contemporary styrene and urethane kits currently,
and historically on the market.

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Wow Denny, thanks for the great summary. Your observations reflect mine
concerning the ProtoAccumate coupler and the Kadee #78. Thanks for sharing
all of your details.

Eric Hansmann
Morgantown, W. Va.