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Nasadowsk wrote:Maybe someone should make an adaptor for trains with automatic couplers?
(Nahhh... that would make too much sense)
Nasadowsk wrote:Maybe someone should make an adaptor for trains with automatic couplers?
(Nahhh... that would make too much sense)
Backshophoss wrote:Changing ends requires a brake test,however whenever you break/make connections to the brake pipe,a more extensive brake test routine is
required.
diburning wrote:Even in Europe, most trains are double ended and/or use cab cars. The only trains that use the autocouplers are the MUs. Double ended locomotives are common, but even then, most trains either have another engine on the other end, or use a cab car. The double ended locomotives are mainly used for freight, and I'm willing to bet that passenger locomotives are built double ended to have a second life as work units or freight units.
TomNelligan wrote:As a historical note, in the early years of cab units diesels, many railroads operated their F-units and such as de facto double-enders in that they were always run in A-A, A-B-A, or A-B-B-A configurations. In fact in some cases these lashups were semi-permanently coupled and never broken up. The original question is a good one, though. At the dawn of the diesel age, the large electric locomotives used by railroads like the Pennsylvania, New Haven, and New York Central were double ended so there was a US precedent for twin-cab non-steam power, but the practice didn't carry over to individual road diesels except in the sense of these cab unit assemblages.
Tadman wrote:3. Someone implied there is a regulation about not mixing transit couplers on mains with freight. The above would imply this is wrong. Some members have told me that the reason NJT carries adapters on every MU is because of an FRA reg, but then why doesn't South Shore or Metra Electric carry such adapters on their MU's?
Tadman wrote:3. Someone implied there is a regulation about not mixing transit couplers on mains with freight. The above would imply this is wrong. Some members have told me that the reason NJT carries adapters on every MU is because of an FRA reg, but then why doesn't South Shore or Metra Electric carry such adapters on their MU's?
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