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 オロネ25-901 (with body-mount TN coupler) and オハネ25-100 (with truck-mount TN coupler) Not every Tomix or Micro Ace train accepts the fancy-pants body-mount TN couplers. Sometimes you have to make do with compromises. Which is what Tomix’s truck-mount TN couplers are: A compromise. They work, but they’re not nearly as cool, and don’t look quite as good. And they’re harder to install. But, in the end, I think they are still worthwhile to bother with. Here’s how to install them.  Rapido couplers couple loosely; the gap between carraiges is about 6mm. Most of your trains look like this: Big, bulky Rapido couplers and nearly a scale meter of space between the cars. Your passengers have to get a running start to leap to the next carriage! What to do? The obvious answer is to install TN couplers. But this is a Micro Ace model, and the info sheet doesn’t mention anything about them. Can TN couplers even be fitted?  Rapido coupler. Looks awful, but it is one of the most reliable couplers ever designed. The Rapido coupler is the standard for N-scale trains, and has been for some 30 years. Rapidos are easy to couple together (even if they take some fiddling to uncouple), and they hold together reliably over a wide range of conditions, pushing and pulling, up inclines and at funny angles. But they are ugly, and they are huge. Most modelers in North America opt for the Micro-Trains Magne-Matic coupler, which not only looks better, but offers semi-automatic uncoupling which uses track-mounted magnets instead of hand-held toothpicks to work. (The N-Scale Division has a great history of n-gauge couplers.) |
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