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I was picking out detail because the overall lighting in the museum didn't really lend itself to photographing many of the locomotives in full. I'm not a rail enthusiast but I found it interesting and with enough subjects to run a full roll off before we left. :)

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very nice technical photo, although i don't quite get what i am looking at . . . ?

 

The large round object is one of the trains shock absorbers which will compress when a carriage is shunted into it to attach to the loco via the hook arrangement on the left. Or so I believe. :D

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Howard,

 

Excellent lighting, tones and detail. I'm curious, do the railroads in GB still employ that method of coupling cars together?

 

Paul

 

To be honest I've no idea. Possibly freight wagons but I doubt that passenger carriages are. Being in a museum this example is probably many years old so modern practice may be different. But given the level of investment in the railways over here it wouldn't suprise me to find that the technology was outdated. :)

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