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Lionel Trains Workshop => Beginners Q & A => Topic started by: jbcool on November 25, 2020, 06:14:18 pm

Title: Scout Couplers
Post by: jbcool on November 25, 2020, 06:14:18 pm

I have a 1949 Lionel Scout train & want to add a Lionel 6424 flatcar to the train, but the couplers are different...is there an adapter that I can buy...I didn't want to change the cars as I was trying to keep everything original. Thanks for any help you can give me.

Title: Re: Scout Couplers
Post by: TrainLarry on November 25, 2020, 08:49:17 pm

There is a way to couple the cars together. It involves turning one truck on the Scout car around so the coupler faces inward.

Snap a 480-25 baseplate and coupler over the truck axles and bend the tabs on the baseplate lightly to keep it in place.
http://www.ttender.com/weblistpictures/480-25.jpg

Available from The Train Tender.
http://www.ttender.com/list/num3.htm

Conversion done.


Larry