Intermountain dummy ( crappy ) couplers

[Biased turkey]

Last week-end I purchased 3 Intermountain 40' boxcars. The Penn and CN one are fine and have an Accumate ( Atlas ) coupler, but when I checked the 3rd one ( #65744 State of Maine ) I realised it has a "fake" coupler because it is made in 1 piece.
The knuckle and the lip shanks are not separated items and there is no trip pin.
It's hard to detect the problem when the boxcar is a few feet away in the LHS display.
Sorry , I can't post a pic because my camera is not suited for macro photography.

Did anyone ever had that problem with Intermountain cars ?

 

[umtrr-author]

I haven't had this problem. The coupler you describe sounds a bit like the "original" Intermountain version. Could be that the assembler found a stray and installed it... although thinking about it, that shouldn't make sense because I'm not sure that the old coupler would fit well in the Accumate box.

IMRC has a reputation for excellent customer service. I would contact them directly.