File:Link and pin coupler on Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad - 4914 box car converted to an outfit car 2 (22935240176).jpg
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DescriptionLink and pin coupler on Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad - 4914 box car converted to an outfit car 2 (22935240176).jpg |
This is the coupler of a late 1800s, wooden, narrow-gauge box car that has been converted to an outfit car. It is on display at the Ridgway Railroad Museum in Ridgway, Colorado, USA. Box cars are designed to carry freight. Outfit cars (also known as camp cars or crew cars) were used by railroad personnel for meals, sleep, and tool storage. Info. from museum signage: "This car was built in 1896 at the Ohio Falls Car Manufacturing Company in Indiana. It cost $545 and was of 20 ton capacity and 30 feet long. It had Link and Pin couplers and "straight air" brakes. . . . Link and Pin couplers were very dangerous to use and resulted in many missing fingers and some deaths. Consider how a brakeman would have to hold up the link to slide it into the oncoming car. Straight air brakes were not very effective and brakemen had to ride the tops of the cars to set hand brakes for speed control on the steep grades. The conversion to Westinghouse Automatic air brakes and automatic "knuckle" type couplers was done in 1903." "We have converted [this] end back to Link and Pin type coupler." Short vintage video depicting use of a link and pin coupler: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MCP7eTLrrg" rel="nofollow">www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MCP7eTLrrg</a> |
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Source | Link and pin coupler on Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad # 4914 box car converted to an outfit car 2 |
Author | James St. John |
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