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The dual couplers are mounted to a pivot, allowing both to swing. Different types of railroad rolling stock have different couplers depending on the purpose and type of equipment being used and its intended destination. European rolling stock tend to use buffers and chain couplers while American rolling stock uses a Janney coupler or "knuckle ...
The Janney coupler, later the Master Car Builders Association (MCB) coupler, [19] now the Association of American Railroads (AAR) coupler, is also commonly known as a buckeye, knuckle, or Alliance coupler. The AAR/APTA TypeE, TypeF, and TypeH couplers are all compatible Janney couplers, but used for different rail cars (general freight, tank ...
In telecommunications, an acoustic coupler is an interface device for coupling electrical signals by acoustical means—usually into and out of a telephone. The link is achieved through converting electric signals from the phone line to sound and reconverting sound to electric signals needed for the end terminal, such as a teletypewriter, and ...
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George Clooney is paying tribute to his former “Ocean's Eleven” costar, "gentle soul" Scott L. Schwartz who has died at the age of 65. “I’m sorry to hear that Scott is gone,” Clooney, 63 ...
The Justice Department inspector general outlined the FBI’s use of confidential sources ahead of the Jan. 6, 2021 attack in a report issued Thursday.
eBay office in Toronto, Canada. eBay Inc. (/ ˈ iː b eɪ / EE-bay, often stylized as ebay or Ebay) is an American multinational e-commerce company based in San Jose, California, that allows users to buy or view items via retail sales through online marketplaces and websites in 190 markets worldwide.
(Reuters) - Oil major BP's former CEO Bernard Looney is set to chair Prometheus Hyperscale, the U.S.-based data company said on Sunday. Looney, who resigned in 2023 after four years in the British ...