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- significant disadvantage of using the AAR (Janney) design is that sometimes the drawheads need to be manually aligned. During the transition period from link-and-pin...28 KB (3,224 words) - 16:53, 8 June 2024
cars together on railroad track. The knuckle coupler have a bifurcated drawhead and a revolving hook, which, when brought in contact with another coupler...190 KB (23,285 words) - 09:03, 18 July 2024- coupler, and the strength of this drawhead was not infinite. While the engine could not push hard enough to break the drawhead, the engineer needed to avoid...65 KB (9,197 words) - 13:20, 23 August 2024
standing behind a moving train a dropping a heavy pin through the top of a drawhead to link cars, a process that all too frequently resulted in mutilated hands...10 KB (1,144 words) - 12:02, 18 August 2022
- From draw + head. drawhead (plural drawheads) (rail transport) The flanged outer end of a drawbar. (rail transport) A name applied to the drawgear. Part
- came in from Baltimore, and upon examination he discovered a defective drawhead (called by railroad men a 'bull nose') on one of the cars. The cars were