Class 73130 seen on the East Kent Railway Today…
73130 is a unquie locomotive, as it is the only remaining Class 73 to retain Scharfenberg couplers from its Eurostar days, between 1994 & 2007 it was used to rescue Eurostar trains in the rare occasion of a train failure.
(11/10/2025)
73130 is a unquie locomotive, as it is the only remaining Class 73 to retain Scharfenberg couplers from its Eurostar days, between 1994 & 2007 it was used to rescue Eurostar trains in the rare occasion of a train failure.
(11/10/2025)
October 11, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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🌱 Some days school gardening is the glamour of troubleshooting, diagnosing, and repairing irrigation in between school drop off, birthday cake baking, meetings, dog walks, laundry, and school pick up. Worth it because hand watering 20 garden beds is not for me!
October 2, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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...... *N* scale??? Only the couplers give that one away.
September 27, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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Economists across the galaxy swore that carbo-steel futures was the secret predictor for Protectorate construction works. But Koan knew better.
The true #bellwether was algae protein stocks on the Chand-Pok Exchange. Algae fed the palladium smelters who made the couplers for the scaffolding.
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The true #bellwether was algae protein stocks on the Chand-Pok Exchange. Algae fed the palladium smelters who made the couplers for the scaffolding.
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23 September 2025 #vss365 #prompt word, is #bellwether
Take the lead, lift your story from imagination to ink
23 September 2025 #vss365 #prompt word, is #bellwether
September 24, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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New (sub)project: making some couplers. They are 1:8 scale models of the ones used by Arthur Heywood on his 15” gauge railways. I have two pairs of them that were commercially made many years ago to use as a pattern. They are white metal whereas I’m making six more by machining brass
September 19, 2025 at 1:31 AM
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I was in my 22 when it came out and at that point had been building and playing with computers since teletypes and acoustic couplers so I was so excited when this came out and saw it in the theater twice
Also has Stephen Tobolowsky who makes every thing better
Also has Stephen Tobolowsky who makes every thing better
September 16, 2025 at 11:34 PM
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Is there an existing comparison study between AAR type E couplers and Soviet SA-5's?
Like safety, tonnage limits, handling?
Like safety, tonnage limits, handling?
September 11, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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Finally got the chance to run 8236 during August's train show. Had it fitted with N-possible couplers and an ESU LokSound decoder. Still some details to finish, but I'm happy that the DCC Sound conversion was a success!
September 6, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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TÜV Süd puts digital automatic couplers to the test https://bit.ly/4p9EGrE
TÜV Süd puts digital automatic couplers to the test
TÜV Süd puts digital automatic couplers to the test https://bit.ly/4p9EGrE
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September 5, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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For over 25 years I drew train pictures for the screensaver program Traffic but I stopped drawing about a year ago to finish school. Suddenly, today, I started up again. Here are some CM&StP 28’ boxcars in 1880s-1900s versions. Scale is 10px=1 meter.
September 2, 2025 at 12:22 AM
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It is! There's a "language" you need to learn, how running gear (wheels and couplers) work, and standard details present in most equipment vary by world region and era, so knowing that helps a lot too.
August 31, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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those are really nice. i'm thinking about reversing things and putting the Z gauge Rokuhan connectors which look more like those instead of the Rokuhan-made Marklin couplers so a Rokuloco can hook up right up to Marklin cars.
February 15, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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Another Z scale #modelRailroad question: magnetic couplers. Any good? Does the simple magnetic decoupler track work as advertised? Does the non-magnetic Marklin decoupling track work well?
January 13, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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Commodore 64 as a boy… but no connectivity… I remember ads for acoustic couplers for phones but that was far beyond my world.
Using ICL’s global email system in 2nd job would have been my first ‘sort of modern’ internet’ experience (also programming COBOL & ICL VME SCL at that time).
Using ICL’s global email system in 2nd job would have been my first ‘sort of modern’ internet’ experience (also programming COBOL & ICL VME SCL at that time).
August 12, 2024 at 10:30 AM
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Clockwise we have:
A Kato break van/caboose with Kato couplers
A vintage tenshado flat car with Kadees.
A brand new tank car made by (?) With tiny little knuckles.
A Kato break van/caboose with Kato couplers
A vintage tenshado flat car with Kadees.
A brand new tank car made by (?) With tiny little knuckles.
October 3, 2023 at 4:15 PM
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I remember acoustic couplers and 300 baud modems. I remember perforated paper dust from the continous feed dot matrix printers. I remember Fido and Blue Board, the sound of a Hayes handshake, and the anticipation of the ASCII file.
I'm so old I remember when Yahoo really did have an index of every site on the World Wide Web
How old are you?
I'm so old that I remember when Google's ads had a purple background.
I'm so old that I remember when Google's ads had a purple background.
June 25, 2024 at 8:03 PM
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Electra is the little spoon so Mooncake can loop her hands through their couplers when the two of them cuddle, send skeet
June 19, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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It feels really weird for that exact reason! There is just an eerie silence and a moments delay while all the couplers squeeze up before you start moving. Especially unnerving if you’ve just got out of a noisy loco and you’re used to all the sounds telling you what’s happening
August 3, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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My brain at any given time: Don't Stop believing! Damn, I gotta make sure to do laundry. I wonder how train couplers work. Just hold on to that feeeellinnnng! Ooo I should play Helldivers today
My brain when I have to do math: *static*
My brain when I have to do math: *static*
October 3, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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"An Ill Wind" is classic Klingon Acid Punk, but it keeps blowing out the couplers in the comms array...
a desk with a few buttons on it and a light coming out of it
ALT: a desk with a few buttons on it and a light coming out of it
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August 21, 2024 at 4:18 PM
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... ok, wtf curtain rods are stupid expensive.. so in the future i'm gonna just head to the homedespot, but a few lengths of 10ft 1" diameter EMT conduit, cut them to lengths that would fit in my car, get a bag of couplers, and make some damned curtain rods
February 3, 2025 at 4:57 AM
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Sounds like a good idea. I have no idea where to start though since I’m not very good with electronics
I’ve had two occasions already where the coupler broke because the frame would bend (and misalign the couplers). It’s a lot sturdier but there’s just too much power on this engine…
I’ve had two occasions already where the coupler broke because the frame would bend (and misalign the couplers). It’s a lot sturdier but there’s just too much power on this engine…
December 25, 2024 at 12:02 PM
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their robustness and performance. In this work, we identify and analyze stationary geometrical dimensions of directional couplers that enhance tolerance to such variations. Through theoretical predictions and experimental [3/7 of https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.20069v1]
February 28, 2025 at 6:14 AM
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If you were to connect the locomotive(s) to the slug with a drawbar then you'd be able to bypass that restriction, I think. And you'd probably want that if you were passing traction power between the two vehicles, anyway!
Do y'all have plans to move to automatic couplers at some point?
Do y'all have plans to move to automatic couplers at some point?
November 9, 2024 at 9:11 PM
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Oh for the luvva...I ordered another shelving unit, this time from a different seller, and the post couplers were missing AGAIN. Currently on the phone with a customer service rep trying to get this straightened out. Then I'm going to email the actual manufacturer and complain.
September 15, 2023 at 2:51 AM
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