The owner of this loco wanted Kadee couplings fitted. I've little experience of using these but I do have some US stock, usefull when gauging coupling height. Obviously there's no room for a NEM socket under the loco so another fitting solution had to be found. I was sent some Kadee 'European' couplings to play with, which have a long 'tail' and are, I think, designed to fit into NEM pockets. The 'base' part of the Kadee was shortened as much as I dare, allowing for the screw hole.

My solution has been to make up some 'L' shaped brackets from brass strip to be soldered onto the buffer beams;

(Note that I hadn't cleaned up the solder when the photo was taken).

The notch in the bracket clears the coupling hinge whilst allowing the coupling base to be supported along its full length.

A .8mm hole has been drilled through the bracket and coupling for a 16BA screw. This allows the coupling to be removed for painting although its rather fiddly to screw the coupling in place.

Here's a front view, buffers are loose, again to be fitted after painting;

Coupled up to a Bachmann 70 tonner (camera doing odd things...);

Someone will now post with a better solution no doubt!

Paul.