Til death do us part . . . or at least until the next interchange at a railroad yard. The thick connection you see here is about the same knuckle system or Janney coupler that was invented in 1873. It provides a safe way for trains to be secured to one another. Forget what you see in the movies where a hero (who inevitably gets hurts) has to pull a pin to separate cards as a train speeds headlong into a disaster. Now that isn't something I knew, but their freakin' trains! Who knew they could be so informative to our going to the movies.
- Created: February 2023
- Collections: Trains, Planes, and Cars