Walthers Budd car issues

[Green_Elite_Cab]

I have problems with some of these cars too. And I have removed the metal contacts you mentioned, with no improvement. I now believe the problem lies in the diaphragms. Some seem to be much stiffer than others. Watch closely at the point where you have problems, and I bet you'll see contact of the diaphragms where one or both refuse to yield. I haven't as yet done anything about it, I have problem cars sitting all over the layout waiting for some attention! I'll look forward to seeing if someone posts a way to correct this.

that was what the club was suggesting the issue might be (though I'm not totally convinced). They suggest using a short and a long coupler. it give you about the same distance as to regular couplers, but the way the cars push on eachother is different, so that the diaphragms work out.

I think I'm going to try and back the springs up a little, maybe give them a good bend so that it loosens the tension on them.