To couple, but how?

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How?

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Hi bengt, <I>Hallo bengt</i>,
this is the Iore, right ?
It looks like that these two Iore-Halves are connect Rear-to-Front (instead of Rear-to-Rear).

This is what the German Wikipedia says:

Als Kupplung zwischen den Loks dient eine amerikanische Klauenkupplung Typ F, welche sich ursprünglich bei den Loks mit 30 t Achslast auch an den Frontseiten befunden hatte. Sie wurde später aber wieder durch die bei den übrigen Fahrzeugen der Erzbahn verwendete russische SA3-Kupplung ersetzt. Die Loks mit 25 t Achslast waren von Beginn an mit SA3-Kupplungen an den Frontseiten ausgerüstet.

So, on both sides of the Iore now russian SA3 couplers are attached.
But a simplified version an the rear-end (for rear-to-rear connection) and at the front side the thougher version for the rougher train operations.

Bye

Here's a Russian language coupler demonstration on photobucket

One way to couple up the locos is to use an adapter AAR <--> SA3 couplers. The adapter is put on the SA3-coupler and the stiff knuckle will engage to the mowable knuckle of the outher coupler. This particular adapter is in use in the border area Kazakstan - China.
In the early 1960:ies different coupler types were tested and the SA3 were found to be superior to all other coupler typs.
But some years ago it was up to the makers of new locos and ore-cars to deliwer the most outstanding locos and cars and they choose AAR type F.
In service the SA3 quickly showed its superiority and the AAR difficultys when icy couplers were to disengage. The problem is the AAR movable knuckle vs one wedgeon the SA3.

Is there also a simmilar AAR-coupler animation on the net?

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