Re: Source for 1/2 size knuckle couplers

o anderson Wrote:
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> This is a topic that comes up every now and then.
> "Loco112" on several forums has been gathering
> drawings and prototypes to produce a 1/2 size
> coupler, perhaps he will be going into production?
> A fellow in the Philadelphia area was looking for
> couplers for his small mining locomotive and cars,
> though I do not know if he had any success. The
> only massive collections of 1/2 size Sharon
> couplers that I know of, are at the Billy Jones
> Wildcat Railroad and at the Swanton Pacific
> Railroad Society. Both of these are decendants of
> the Overfair Railway of the very early 20th
> Century fair in San Francisco. I am hoping a
> source for these couplers is identified and shared
> on this thread, as I would like to purchase some
> myself.
> O.

Some time ago there was also a rumor of someone in Nevada with a stash of fifty or so (!) but nothing came of it except for a few for sale for several hundred each. I guess I ought to ask Charley in Beatty if he has heard of this, I think he knows where every piece of iron is located in the entire state!

Russell Courtenay
Idaho, USA