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Type F interlocking couplers on upcoming PNR narrow-gauge flatcars. [37] Type H tightlock coupling on most PNR rolling stock starting with the 900 class. Link and pin couplers on the Hawaiian Philippine Company of Negros Island. [38] Older Manila Railroad stock also use link and pin alongside English couplers. Scharfenberg couplers on the MRT ...
The diagram from Beard's 1897 coupler patent [1]. Janney couplers were first patented in 1873 by Eli H. Janney (U.S. patent 138,405). [2] [3] Andrew Jackson Beard was amongst various inventors that made a multitude of improvements to the knuckle coupler; [1] Beard's patents were U.S. patent 594,059 granted 23 November 1897, which then sold for approximately $50,000, and U.S. patent 624,901 ...
The Pioneer III car had an advertised speed of 100 mph (161 km/h), but in actual operations ran at speeds of around 80–85 mph (129–137 km/h) Its knuckle-shaped (tightlock) couplers, identical to those found on the PRR long-distance trains, allowed the Pioneer III coaches to be transported to shop facilities in Paoli or Wilmington for ...
The Budd Silverliner was a model of electric multiple unit railcar designed and built by the Budd Company with 59 examples being delivered starting in 1963. Fifty-five of the cars were purchased for the Reading and Pennsylvania Railroads with public funds for use in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, area commuter rail service with the remaining 4 cars being purchased by USDOT for use in high-speed ...
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Decauville (French:) was a manufacturing company which was founded by Paul Decauville (1846–1922), a French pioneer in industrial railways.Decauville's major innovation was the use of ready-made sections of light, narrow gauge track fastened to steel sleepers; this track was portable and could be disassembled and transported very easily.
All cars and locomotives had Westinghouse railway brakes, and cars used for passenger service had Miller platform couplers. As the first contractor, Beatty, was unable to complete the project, a second, J. K. Bynre, [14] was brought in; construction was completed in the spring of 1876. The inaugural train, from Colfax to Grass Valley, ran on ...
57 ft (17,000 mm) over the coupler pulling faces: Width: 9 ft 3 in (2.82 m) over the grabirons: Height: 13 ft 2.5 in (4.026 m) Loco weight: 107 tons (107,752 kg) Fuel capacity: 1,700 - 3,000 US gal (6434 - 11,355 L) Prime mover: EMD 12-645E3: Engine type: V12 - 45 Deg: Aspiration: Turbocharged - Intercooler: Generator: Alternator AR10 & D14 ...