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Plate 144: Building a locomotive service yard, Part 10: two different kinds of buffers
(This plate added OCT 2003)
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This view, similar to Plate 143, shows the tender of the "Flying Scotsman" locomotive on a spur
track of the locomotive service yard. The two gold-colored shock-absorbing buffers of the R394 Hydraulic Buffer Stop are seen to match the positions of the smaller, silver-and-red buffers on the tender.
The practice of equipping locomotives and rolling stock with this particular type of buffer was common in Britain and Europe, but is absent on railroads in the United States and Canada. Railroads in the United States and Canada employ a different method of absorbing mechanical shocks when cars are pushed together. |
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