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    allow faster shunting operations. Indian and British dual couplings with buffers Dual coupling on a modern locomotive. (Indian locomotive class WAG-9)...
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    and complications arise when coupling vehicles with different couplers. Barrier cars, also called match cars, cars with dual couplers, or adapters are used...
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  • Janney couplers are a semi-automatic form of railway coupling that allow rail cars and locomotives to be securely linked together without rail workers...
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    HydraMatic, by Cadillac, or Dual-coupling Hydra-Matic) in 1956. The Controlled-Coupling Hydra-Matic incorporated a secondary fluid coupling and a pair of sprag...
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  • between incompatible coupler types may be accomplished using dual couplings, a coupling adapter or a barrier wagon. ABC coupler (Automatic Buffing Contact)...
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  • range the coupling fills, releasing the front clutch makes a ratio of 1 to 1. This transmission, like single and dual range and dual coupling hydramatics...
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    Look up drawbar in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A drawbar is a solid coupling between a hauling vehicle and its hauled load. Drawbars are in common use...
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    verification] Train vehicles are linked to one another by various systems of coupling. In much of Europe, India, and South America, trains primarily use buffers...
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    train with a different type of coupler. A match wagon has an identical dual coupling at both ends. They are often found on empty coaching stock moves where...
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  • system Length over headstocks Multi-function couplers Railway coupling Railway coupling by country Rotary car dumper Safety of tank cars Slack action...
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  • are the de facto International Union of Railways (UIC) standard railway coupling used in the EU and UK, and on some surviving former colonial railways,...
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    abbreviated Schaku) is a commonly used type of fully automatic railway coupling. Designed in 1903 by Karl Scharfenberg in Königsberg, Germany (today Kaliningrad...
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    A Norwegian coupling or coupler (also known colloquially as a chopper coupling or claw hammer coupling), is a manually operated coupling at each end of...
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    fuel cell-electric locomotive. There are many different types of hybrid or dual-mode locomotives using two or more types of motive power. The most common...
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    520 mm (4 ft 11+27⁄32 in) Belarus – 3 kV DC/25 kV AC, a short stretch of dual-gauge track terminates at Grodno Lithuania – 3 kV DC/25 kV AC, as part of...
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    , 1990: 71 Cervero, 1998: 8 Cervero, 1998: 226 Boorse, Jack W. (1999). "Dual-Mode Traction Power Distribution for Light Rail Transit: A Design Option"...
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