UNION CITY PASSENGER DEPOT

All aboard! Passengers are now enjoying the brand-new passenger station in Union City, Tennessee.

Tuesday, August 28, 2018


Label: Coupler redux, again?
As mention last post, a coupler rework is in progress. However, progress has been slow. Probably due to a little down time I had to take for personal needs. Nothing serious, just necessary. What we are looking at is a coupler that is two feet in height, about the same across the widest point and may be three or four feet in length on the real thing. What this works out to is 1/16th of inch high by 1/16th inch wide and 3/32 long more or less. We need to have an internal latching mechanism so the outside will look as realistic as possible hopefully working similarly to the real thing as well. We will start big and work our way down. I once saw a bit of graffiti in an old railyard that was on a small yard shed. The graffiti said, “Start at the bottom and work your way down”! Sounds like someone was discouraged. Not me. Onward and downward, omscaler