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    standard screw coupling, shown attached and tightened The link-and-pin coupling was the original style of coupling used on North American railways. After most...
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    A coupling is a device used to connect two shafts together at their ends for the purpose of transmitting power. The primary purpose of couplings is to...
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  • Digital automatic coupling (DAC) is a type of railway coupling developed in the 2020's to replace the English buffers and chain couplings, initially in Europe...
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  • Knuckle 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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    (or couplings) – also known as "buffers and screw", "screw", and "screwlink" – are the de facto International Union of Railways (UIC) standard railway coupling...
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  • The railcar couplers or couplings listed, described, and depicted below are used worldwide on legacy and modern railways. Compatible and similar designs...
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  • together Coupling (probability), a proof technique in probability theory Railway coupling, a mechanism for connecting railway rolling stock Azo coupling, often...
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    Scharfenbergkupplung, abbreviated Schaku) is a commonly used type of fully automatic railway coupling. Designed in 1903 by Karl Scharfenberg in Königsberg, Germany (today...
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  • From time to time, a railway decides that it needs to upgrade its coupling system from one that is proving unsatisfactory, to another that meets future...
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    inventor of the curveball. In 1873, Cummings invented a railway coupling device, improving on the coupling device then in use, which was dangerous. He patented...
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    the coupler(s) used on any railway system Length over headstocks Multi-function couplers Railway coupling Railway coupling by country Rotary car dumper...
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    railway couplings used primarily in Russia and states influenced by the former Soviet Union, such as Finland, Poland, and Mongolia. Russian railways originally...
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    A fluid coupling or hydraulic coupling is a hydrodynamic or 'hydrokinetic' device used to transmit rotating mechanical power. It has been used in automobile...
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    and some freight cars of the Indian Railways are fitted with a 'transition coupler' that incorporates a screw coupling within a knuckle coupler: the knuckle...
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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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    touch when the coupling chain was fully slack, such as when being pushed or going down hill. The buffers in the very earliest days of railways were rigid...
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  • AAR Corporation, an American aviation engineering company AAR coupling, railway coupling specification of the Association of American Railroads AAR wheel...
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  • Romanian buses and trolleybuses Digital automatic coupling, a railway coupling Dahinsara Junction railway station, Gujarat, India, station code DAC DAC Air...
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    The Caledonian Railway 812 and 652 Classes were 0-6-0 steam tender locomotives designed by John F. McIntosh for the Caledonian Railway and introduced...
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  • Informationstechnik) Bureau of Special Investigation, Myanmar BSI coupling, a railway coupling or coupler Back-illuminated sensor, also known as backside illumination...
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  • knuckles), weapons used in hand-to-hand combat Knuckle coupler, a railway coupling, a mechanism for connecting rolling stock in a train Knuckle joint...
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  • systems by country Level crossings by country Rail transport by country Railway coupling by country School bus by country Speed limits by country Taxis by country...
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  • Willison (born 1947), American stage actor Willison coupler, a railway coupling. Willison railway station in Melbourne, Australia John Willison (disambiguation)...
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  • network size List of countries by rail usage Railway coupling by country List of locomotive builders List of railway companies List of rolling stock manufacturers...
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  • Scharfenberg Scharfenberger chocolate Scharfenberg coupler, a type of railway coupling Doris Scharfenberg Jean Scharfenberg (1922-1998), American professor...
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    from wrought iron, including rivets, nails, wire, chains, rails, railway couplings, water and steam pipes, nuts, bolts, horseshoes, handrails, wagon...
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    before the reversal of motion is complete. It can be heard from the railway couplings when a train reverses direction. Another example is in a valve train...
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  • countries (Iberian Peninsula, Ireland, Russian broad gauge), Different railway coupling mechanisms by countries or rolling stock type, all influencing train...
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    less common. Anticlimber Buffers and chain coupler Janney coupler Railway coupling SA3 coupler Tightlock coupler Vestibule Vestibuled train Jenkinson...
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    Pearson's Coupling was a safety relevant improvement for connecting the hoses of the Westinghouse Air Brake Company between railway carriages. If a train...
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