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Well, I wish each car had a knuckle, but they are mounted only on the locomotives just above the "plow." There are two types of knuckles, one is an E-type and the other is F-type. E's are more common. Well, each knuckle weighs about 80lbs. When a knuckle breaks you have to pull up on the cut lever that pull up the pin, but you have to hold the cut lever up or the guts of the knuckle fall out. So, you either need two people or you better find something to tie the cut lever up with. Then you lift up the replacement knuckle and put it in and hold in place while dropping the pin back down. Luckily, KNOCK ON WOOD, I have not had to change one outside a training environment, but I feel my day will come. I'm wondering how knuckles are changed on the line of road, do you carry the thing back 100 cars??? Maybe some of the other folks have some good knuckle changing stories as well as more specific info about the knuckle changing process, but that's my [2c].
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