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Re: Couplers vs Buffers
Author: Reader
Date: 04-28-2013 - 19:06

Dr Zarkoff Wrote:
>
> One thing the link, screw, and buffer system does
> is eliminate slack, which US-style knuckle
> couplers can't do (including the HT variety), even
> when the cars are equipped with buffers.


So, are you saying that a jolt free ride is more important than the lost limb of the brakeman doing the coupling?!

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Subject Written By Date/Time (PST)
  Couplers vs Buffers Hutch 7.62 04-28-2013 - 16:47
  Re: Couplers vs Buffers Reader 04-28-2013 - 18:00
  Re: Couplers vs Buffers Dr Zarkoff 04-28-2013 - 18:17
  Re: Couplers vs Buffers Reader 04-28-2013 - 19:06
  Re: Couplers vs Buffers Hutch 7.62 04-28-2013 - 20:39
  Re: Couplers vs Buffers usmc1401 04-28-2013 - 21:32
  Re: Couplers vs Buffers Tony Johnson 04-28-2013 - 22:18
  Re: Couplers vs Buffers Hutch 7.62 04-29-2013 - 09:16
  Re: Couplers vs Buffers Ernest H. Robl 04-29-2013 - 11:34
  Re: Couplers vs Buffers Michael Mahoney 04-29-2013 - 17:48
  Re: Couplers vs Buffers KKK 04-30-2013 - 21:55


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