Interesting old poster from the early USSR. As an aside I always have wondered how those bumpers worked vs the US style Knuckle Coupler
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When I was in Europe on a train I was watchen them put a Goods (freight) train together and I was getting nervious watching the guy going between the buffers as the wagons (cars) were hitting together.
Originally Posted by cbojanower:
Interesting old poster from the early USSR. As an aside I always have wondered how those bumpers worked vs the US style Knuckle Coupler
That could be Excedrin headache number Четыре тысячи четыреста двадцать шесть (426)!
Ouch! Плохой день для кондуктор
Looks really old cuz the Ruskies switched to automatic couplers way before most of Europe. In that poster the buffers and screw couplings look like the common English and European styles, which are manually screwed together to take up slack. The ball on the end of the shaft is the "handle" to turn the screw. The buffers are sprung.
Does not to me look like much of an improvement over link and pin, for safety...if any....
Originally Posted by N5CJonny:
That could be Excedrin headache number Четыре тысячи четыреста двадцать шесть (426)!
Did you intend to say- четыре - сто двадцать шесть?
Some people respond better to visual aids.
That's gonna leave a mark!
Jerry
Looking at the video, are all cars like that, It appears they have to be facing the same way since the couplers only go on one way.
Chet
Originally Posted by N.Q.D.Y.:
How to couple safely. 
Buffers on cars were much safer that non-buffered cars with link and pin. To get some sense of the difference pull out your copy of the movie "The Train" and watch the sequence where they uncouple the engine from the supply train before hooking up the armored engine to the consist. The breakman gets between the cars, the engineer reverses, the buffers hit and the brakeman just gets on with the job of uncoupling.
Вероятно лучше чем проживание под коммунизмом!
Jon
It's easy to see the value of those buffers. Assuming the train doesn't move at all during the coupling operation, it really doesn't appear that the process is all that risky. Still, most rail operations are not without some risk.
Originally Posted by Big Chet:
Looking at the video, are all cars like that, It appears they have to be facing the same way since the couplers only go on one way.
Looks like both the engine and the car are each equipped with hooks and chains.
Originally Posted by Robert S. Butler:
Buffers on cars were much safer that non-buffered cars with link and pin. To get some sense of the difference pull out your copy of the movie "The Train" and watch the sequence where they uncouple the engine from the supply train before hooking up the armored engine to the consist. The breakman gets between the cars, the engineer reverses, the buffers hit and the brakeman just gets on with the job of uncoupling.
When it comes to trains every body has their own way of doing it.I have always wondered.How the track gauge here in the us is the same in canda and mexico?
On my MTH electric European engine and one freight car I have they both come with scale couplers if you want to change out the knuckle couplers. I'm keeping the knuckle couplers on because the scale ones are waaay too small for my big paws!
That'll buff right out. Bwahahahahahaha
Он прекрасно.
To **** with THAT. The scene in Von Ryan's Express, where the brakeman ducks the buffers and goes between the cars before they've stopped moving, makes the hair on my neck stand up. Even with everything stopped, three-step protection, and one foot outside the rail, "going between" still put me on alert...
