[Bill Swindell]

I would use 1831's inste3ad of 831's. The 1831 is like an 831 except the coupler itself is scaled for 1:32. I think they look better on 1:29 cars than the 831's would. Our group has concerted over 80 1:29 cars to the #1 scale couplers. In our case, every car has body mounted couplers since we don't have any tight curves.