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Railway Coupler pretty violent good sounds watch your fingers

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  • These are the old style buffers with a kidney link coupler and yes you did have to watch your fingers and also be prepared to jump clear if the angles were wrong and the buffers rode around each other. very dangerous operation. We also used kidney links when coupling locos together before the alliance auto coupler became standard fittings.

  • @johnparkimp3 nice ! thanks for the info :)

  • does that crush fingers?

  • @barbarotico yea would make mince meat of fingers !

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  • @Dunk057

    South Oz (3'-6"), and West Oz, in the past.

    You're probably just a bit young to remember them?

  • @herbgarratt

    Perhaps on a couple of 2' cane lines, but not on any 3'-6" that I know. However a similar thing was used on New Zealand 3'6" railways.

  • @CarAudioGuy21

    These couplings were commonly used on the 3'-6" gauge lines of Australia.

    Known down here as 'meat choppers'....does that answer your question? };-)

  • Great video.

  • For the german people : This is called a "Mittelpufferkupplung mit Nierenbügel".

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