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You're welcome.  Here are a few more showing some variation in the pilot and coupler arrangement. Here is the full link &  pin coupler applied to the long cowcatcher:  <o:p></o:p> <a href="http://collections.mnhs.org/visualresources/image.cfm?imageid=99289&Page=2&EndDate=1900&Keywords=minneapolis%20%26%20st%2E%20louis&StartDate=1880&SearchType=Basic">http://collections.mnhs.org/visualresources/image.cfm?imageid=99289&Page=2&EndDate=1900&Keywords=minneapolis%20%26%20st%2E%20louis&StartDate=1880&SearchType=Basic</a>  <o:p></o:p>  <o:p></o:p> A variation with a pilot plow:  <o:p></o:p> <a href="http://collections.mnhs.org/visualresources/image.cfm?imageid=100079&Page=55&EndDate=1900&Keywords=m%26st%20l&StartDate=1880&SearchType=Basic">http://collections.mnhs.org/visualresources/image.cfm?imageid=100079&Page=55&EndDate=1900&Keywords=m%26st%20l&StartDate=1880&SearchType=Basic</a>  <o:p></o:p>  <o:p></o:p> Here is an M&StL switch engine with footboards and link & pin coupler.  I wonder if somebody has hung their jacket over the number plate to be dried by the heat of the smokebox:  <o:p></o:p> <a href="http://collections.mnhs.org/visualresources/image.cfm?imageid=78601&Page=2&EndDate=1900&Keywords=TRAINS&StartDate=1880&SearchType=Basic">http://collections.mnhs.org/visualresources/image.cfm?imageid=78601&Page=2&EndDate=1900&Keywords=TRAINS&StartDate=1880&SearchType=Basic</a>  <o:p></o:p>  <o:p></o:p> More switch engines.  I always wonder what was on these guys’ minds as they stood there so many moons ago:  <o:p></o:p> <a href="http://collections.mnhs.org/visualresources/image.cfm?imageid=1593&Page=21&EndDate=1900&Keywords=railroads&StartDate=1880&SearchType=Basic">http://collections.mnhs.org/visualresources/image.cfm?imageid=1593&Page=21&EndDate=1900&Keywords=railroads&StartDate=1880&SearchType=Basic</a>  <o:p></o:p> <a href="http://collections.mnhs.org/visualresources/image.cfm?imageid=99311&Page=19&EndDate=1900&Keywords=railroads&StartDate=1880&SearchType=Basic">http://collections.mnhs.org/visualresources/image.cfm?imageid=99311&Page=19&EndDate=1900&Keywords=railroads&StartDate=1880&SearchType=Basic</a>  <o:p></o:p>  <o:p></o:p> A pilot party:  <o:p></o:p> <a href="http://collections.mnhs.org/visualresources/image.cfm?imageid=97937&Page=28&EndDate=1900&Keywords=railroads&StartDate=1880&SearchType=Basic">http://collections.mnhs.org/visualresources/image.cfm?imageid=97937&Page=28&EndDate=1900&Keywords=railroads&StartDate=1880&SearchType=Basic</a>   <o:p></o:p> Some more:   <a href="http://collections.mnhs.org/visualresources/image.cfm?imageid=100689&Page=29&EndDate=1900&Keywords=railroads&StartDate=1880&SearchType=Basic">http://collections.mnhs.org/visualresources/image.cfm?imageid=100689&Page=29&EndDate=1900&Keywords=railroads&StartDate=1880&SearchType=Basic</a>  <o:p></o:p> <a href="http://collections.mnhs.org/visualresources/image.cfm?imageid=196178&Page=31&EndDate=1900&Keywords=railroads&StartDate=1880&SearchType=Basic">http://collections.mnhs.org/visualresources/image.cfm?imageid=196178&Page=31&EndDate=1900&Keywords=railroads&StartDate=1880&SearchType=Basic</a>  <o:p></o:p> <a href="http://collections.mnhs.org/visualresources/image.cfm?imageid=103329&Page=40&EndDate=1900&Keywords=railroads&StartDate=1880&SearchType=Basic">http://collections.mnhs.org/visualresources/image.cfm?imageid=103329&Page=40&EndDate=1900&Keywords=railroads&StartDate=1880&SearchType=Basic</a>  <o:p></o:p> <a href="http://collections.mnhs.org/visualresources/image.cfm?imageid=102286&Page=51&EndDate=1900&Keywords=railroads&StartDate=1880&SearchType=Basic">http://collections.mnhs.org/visualresources/image.cfm?imageid=102286&Page=51&EndDate=1900&Keywords=railroads&StartDate=1880&SearchType=Basic</a>  <o:p></o:p>  <o:p></o:p>  <o:p></o:p>
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