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I don't know why these cars have couplers that stick out a half-scale foot too far. It's just how Accumates are made, I guess. No such thing as a short shank coupler, for them. Not only my Atlas boxcars, but the old Bowser PRR hoppers had long monstrous shanks too. MTL couplers, all body-mounted couplers (except Bachmann), even Atlas's, have the couplers where they're supposed to be. What, did Atlas buy a 20-year supply of long-shank Accumate trucks and has to use them all up first? Put a whole string of these Atlas FGEs together and on the next track a string of MTL 40' reefers and see the difference. Sheesh. I won't buy "it's for small radii curves" because my MTL trucks have moved easily through all sorts of curves for 50 years now, thank you.
Oh, well! Problem solved ... I'll just convert all my cars to Rapido couplers! You know, Atlas commits to fidelity in its S-2s and PS-1s but using truck standards from 20+ years ago, well that's great. Maybe what Atlas should do is include 2 short-shank Accumates (do such things exist?) in the box with their Rapido-ready trucked cars. Hell, throw in some Rapido couplers, too. Satisfy everybody.
As far as I know all Accumates have the same shank length. And they used to include Rapidos for those who wanted to keep using them, until the demand dropped so low it wasn't worth the trouble.They might still have some in their parts warehouse, if you want to call and ask.