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2. Tightlock coupling - Wikipedia

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   To separate cars, a worker must use a lever to move the locking pin that keeps the coupler closed. In Europe, some operators experimented with making fully automatic tightlock couplers by adding integral pneumatic and electric connectors, but these connections proved unreliable, and most have switched to the more common fully automatic ...

3. Railway coupling - Wikipedia

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   The link-and-pin coupler consisted of a tube-like body that received an oblong link. During coupling, a rail worker had to stand between the cars as they came together and guide the link into the coupler pocket. Once the cars were joined, the employee inserted a pin into a hole a few inches from the end of the tube to hold the link in place.

4. List of railroad truck parts - Wikipedia

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   An axlebox, also known as a journal box in North America, is the mechanical subassembly on each end of the axles under a railway wagon, coach or locomotive; it contains bearings and thus transfers the wagon, coach or locomotive weight to the wheels and rails; the bearing design is typically oil-bathed plain bearings on older rolling stock, or roller bearings on newer rolling stock.

5. List of railway vehicles - Wikipedia

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   A Aircraft parts car Autorack Autorail Aérotrain B Baggage car Ballast cleaner Ballast regulator Ballast tamper Bilevel car Boxcab Boxcar Boxmotor Brake van C Cab car Caboose CargoSprinter Centerbeam cars Clearance car Coach (rail) Conflat Container car Coil car (rail) Comboliner Comet (passenger car) Control car (rail) Couchette car Covered hopper Crane (railroad) Crew car Contents: Top 0 ...

6. Railroad Safety Appliance Act - Wikipedia

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   The original act was entitled, "An Act to Promote the Safety of Employees and Travelers upon Railroads by Compelling Common Carriers Engaged in Interstate Commerce to Equip Their Cars with Automatic Couplers and Continuous Brakes and Their Locomotives with Driving-wheel Brakes, and for Other Purposes."

7. List of rolling stock manufacturers - Wikipedia

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   Lenoir Car Company (1894–1930) Lenoir City, Tennessee [9] Liberty Car and Equipment; Liberty Railway Services (2016–) Pueblo, CO (affiliated with Ebenezer Railcar) Lima Car Company (1880s) Lima, Ohio [9] Litchfield Car Manufacturing Company (1872–) Litchfield, Illinois [9] Locks & Canals (c. 1840 – c. 1850) Lowell, Massachusetts [9]

8. Category:Rail passenger cars of the United States - Wikipedia

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   Southern Pacific Railroad Passenger Coach Car-S.P. X7; St. Louis San Francisco (Frisco) Railway Coach No. 661; St. Peter's Chapel Car; Strata-Dome; Sun Lounge (railcar) Super Dome (railcar) Superliner (railcar) Surfliner (railcar)

9. Sperry Rail Service - Wikipedia

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   Another killed 21 and injured over 100 near Victoria, Mississippi, in October 1925. [5] Sperry Rail Service Vehicle. Dr. Elmer Sperry began developing a method of locating internal rail defects in 1911. To build a railway test car, he contracted the American Railway Association in 1927. Construction on this first car began in June 1927.