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A few lucky railfans and the live Railstream cam caught this "seperation" which is amazing and humerous in Chesterton IN.

Turns out the drawbar/knuckle assembly on the lead coil car dropped/lowered enough to "lose its grip". I would love to hear

the incab communications as the crew realised what happened. Lucky no damage to anything. Just fix it and move on. 



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"when was the last time a carman inspected this car?"

"we don't have anymore carmen sir"

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That happened to me more than once. The most memorable one was right at the crest of the ruling southbound grade at Covesville, just outside of Charlottesville. The surge of three down-on-their-knees SD40-2s when a high/low lets go is rather impressive. I never got a knuckle on the lead car, but I guess a high/low release is close.

Say, remember the old days when locomotives had their own special solid knuckles? LAMCO said, "phukk that schitt" a long time ago.

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I would shop cars for the low drawbar when I worked in the yard. Maybe about 6 of them?

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High low drawbars, broken carrying arms, bouncing in two, knuckle opens for whatever reason, all those experiences tucked away in Cy's past.

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Cy Valley wrote:

High low drawbars, broken carrying arms, bouncing in two, knuckle opens for whatever reason, all those experiences tucked away in Cy's past.

 Cut lever hitting a snowbank.



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Pipes FC wrote:
Cy Valley wrote:

High low drawbars, broken carrying arms, bouncing in two, knuckle opens for whatever reason, all those experiences tucked away in Cy's past.

 Cut lever hitting a snowbank.

 Clavalin sez:

Air starts going up and down on rear while flow meter shows varying rates

of flow into the train line. Stretch leaks caused by long drawbar cars with broken 

or bent Airhose trollys going around curves in Buff or Draft and trying (and 

succeding ) to separate the glad hands. BOSS always has a couple big tie

wraps to lock glad hands together, along with an air hose and a wrench when

he goes for a stroll. I used Tu hate it in the middle of a storm and ya start

hearing the EOT beep beep.......................beep beep..................................

beep beep....POW!!!  

 



-- Edited by Calvin on Saturday 26th of February 2022 08:57:09 AM

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Pipes FC wrote:

 Cut lever hitting a snowbank.

 Calvin writes:

When ya think about it Cut levers are pretty tuff. They can get caught

and yanked up by tree branches when ya come around a curve and see 

a big tree laying across the tracks. Only  thing Tu do is keep pulling on

the train so that rat bastard tree don't get slack enuff Tu separate ya.

 



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There are many "separations" on YouTube. Watched this one tonight and its a great "separation" in front of
a "group of railfans". I'm not sure if its in any rulebook where you/conductor cant accept a ride from strangers
right to where the problem is. Certainly speeded up things as just the walk back a 100 cars would take 10 minutes.
I'd say these railfans were this train crews guardian angels this day...no matter if they are odd looking.



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I never understood how a train becomes uncoupled while at speed for no reason....Just comes apart.

Have had it happened to me twice in my years and both times they were DP trains....No weird slack or anything just out of no where, "PSSSHHHH!" goes the air...

2Larco came out with a train makeup restriction about 7 or 8 years ago where all loaded coil cars MUST be on the head end and IIRC you can't have more than 8 or 9? Unless you are a unit train of coil cars of course. It's some weird odd random ass number like that and I always wondered what that was about as well. 

I wonder and dont understand about a lot of things.....



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First of all grain hoppers are junk and always coming uncoupled...no breakage...just the pin bounces up when slack is bunched and doesn't' fall back down fast enough to stand the stretch. Also, any time something by way of brush is sticking out far enough...if it don't break when you hit it...and it's cut lever height...it will catch some cut levers and lift them...whether pins stay up or not is a matter of luck. Every once in while one doesn't and as you say...psssssshhh!

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