Discussion of the past and present operations of the Long Island Rail Road.

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  by Backshophoss
 
Passenger type"tightlock"couplers are a shelf type coupler,might have some type of internal interference.
In an unplanned experiment,a tank car lost a truck enroute and did not derail being held in place by shelf coupler.
Didn't find out untill the hotbox detector axle count was off by 2 axles! :-)