. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . me ofthe local roads for a time; but the inter-change system will have as much to dowith effectually putting the link out ofservice as any statute law. Gil Cup ^ C^P Oil Cup warehouses and unloading tracks is stiltan important one, but it will soon besolved when the use of the link is doneaway with. Of course it will take somespecial contrivance to attach to theknuckle; but the link slot and pin holeweaken the knuckle, so that some otherdevice which will leave the knuckle solidwill be on the market befor
. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . me ofthe local roads for a time; but the inter-change system will have as much to dowith effectually putting the link out ofservice as any statute law. Gil Cup ^ C^P Oil Cup warehouses and unloading tracks is stiltan important one, but it will soon besolved when the use of the link is doneaway with. Of course it will take somespecial contrivance to attach to theknuckle; but the link slot and pin holeweaken the knuckle, so that some otherdevice which will leave the knuckle solidwill be on the market before long. Tne Master Car Builders type is no-where near perfection yet. It is not uni-form, so that the different forms ofknuckles and heads will couple and staycoupled with each other, and in almost allof them two of the same pattern will notstay coupled after the parts wear so theknuckle gets lost motion. This is the next subject for inventorsof new couplers to work at. From thepast experience railroad companies havehad with coupler inventors there is likelyto be plenty of new PLANT SYSTEM OF INDICATOR RIGGING. Michigan was the first State to takeaction on this matter of a legal type forthe automatic coupler. After an extendedtrial, in actual service, of various couplersusing a link, the Master Car Builderstype was formally approved in January,1888, by Commissioner of Railroads JohnT. Rich, and a few months later the ap-proval of the Commission was withdrawnfrom any coupler using a link. This called down the wrath of the legionof inventors of the couplers using a link;but the Michigan law explicitly statedthat an automatic coupler should providefor the coupling and uncoupling of carswithout the necessity of a man going be-tween the end; of the cars—somethingwhich is not possible with a link couplingwhen used in interchange service. The question of coupling cars with theMaster Car Builders type of coupler onvery sharp curves and uneven track around Some years ago the
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