1857 4-4-0

[richg1998]

 I found this in a Early Rail forum, a 1857 loco that someone recently took photos of in El Paso, TX. The loco has a Janey coupler that is split to couple to link & pin couplers. If you download the photos and enhance the brightness and contrast, they stand out. The loco has the slightly tilted cylinders.

http://www.earlyrail.org/EPSW1/Pages/1.html

http://www.elpasotexas.gov/downtown/things_to_do/see/railroad_museum.htm

Rich

 

[dknelson]

I believe that locomotive was built in 1857 for what became the Milwaukee Road, making it the oldest surviving piece of Milwaukee Road rolling stock. 

Dave Nelson

[Deggesty]

Quite interesting. I had not seen a combination coupler before.

I think of the "General" which,of course, was built with a looong link in front that lay down on the cowcatcher. I never did see it after it was put into excursion service; I saw it several times at the Union Station in Chattanooga.

Johnny

[richg1998]

Deggesty

Quite interesting. I had not seen a combination coupler before.

I think of the "General" which,of course, was built with a looong link in front that lay down on the cowcatcher. I never did see it after it was put into excursion service; I saw it several times at the Union Station in Chattanooga.

Johnny

 

Janey split coupler examples.

http://books.google.com/books?id=bz0OBGxRjjcC&pg=PA569&lpg=PA569&dq=janey+coupler+link+%26+pin&source=bl&ots=ZHmWzqbvTS&sig=9uClmtZDlxhPjWU7IiSxps6OzQE&hl=en&ei=dD2lSuS1Gp-f8QaTqMnfDw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4#v=onepage&q=&f=false

http://books.google.com/books?id=Wn8hAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA40&lpg=PA40&dq=janey+coupler+link+%26+pin&source=bl&ots=ySmsmvFeI7&sig=iACsjWVTpQ3jVcH4VRzbn3NMvCs&hl=en&ei=dD2lSuS1Gp-f8QaTqMnfDw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=7#v=onepage&q=&f=false

During the transition period, many Janey couplers were made slotted to couple with link & pin.

Rich