Kadee Couplers

Is the tool mechanical (like a glorified bamboo skewer) or is it magnetic? If it is mechanical you should be OK, if magnetic maybe not.
 
I always thot they looked kinda funny too. I guess when they are coupled it's supposed to look like a hose. When they're uncoupled, they sure don't look like a hose, unless it's frozen by all that snow :)

One thot: you might want to go to magnetic uncoupling later and if you have a lot of cars it will be a lot of effort/$ to replace them all...

jon
 
Shawn,if you would like to retain the pins for future magnetic uncoupling you could cut them shorter then paint them a brown or black colour then paint the very tip (about a 16th of an inch) with silver paint to represent the airline coupling,