Looking at the picture I see an alternative to an idler car, plus added swing allowed.
Smaller narrow ga. equipment sits lower and their couplers were smaller.
I don’t get it how do I tie my bread with that?
Very interesting. Thanks for posting . . . . 
Quite a strange device, I have never seen anything like it.
Who’s going to be the first to model one of these?
I would guess that it would be someone that actually has dual gauge track.
Sorry I gave up any notion of dual gauge. I could see this in reverse when us 1:20.3 guys want to pull 1:32 cars (at least height). It looks flimsy to me thought. Maybe for moving one ore a few cars but you wouldn’t pull a consist of NG cars with it I wouldn’t think.
Thanks for posting John. Your always good for the odd ball things.
Devon Sinsley said: It looks flimsy to me thought.
Though, not thought. I am trying to help our soon to be author. (http://largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-wink.gif)
The East Broad Top used a device to match up the miss-matched couplers. It was a larger aluminum (maybe) face plate on the knuckle part of the coupler, that fit in to that knuckle. This was my inspiration to my link and pin pockets with 3 different heights and a Kadee coupler shaft / draw bar cut down to fit in these pockets at the different heights.
I’d Like to know who the gorilla was that installed the massive hunk of metal on the prototype! It’s gotta weigh at least 200 lbs. Neat contraption John. Thanks for sharing. Any Idea what road that came from?
Joe Zullo said:
Devon Sinsley said: It looks flimsy to me thought.
Though, not thought. I am trying to help our soon to be author. (http://largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-wink.gif)
That one was just a typo.
Ric Golding said:
The East Broad Top used a device to match up the miss-matched couplers. It was a larger aluminum (maybe) face plate on the knuckle part of the coupler, that fit in to that knuckle. This was my inspiration to my link and pin pockets with 3 different heights and a Kadee coupler shaft / draw bar cut down to fit in these pockets at the different heights.
Quite correct Ric, only in this case the adapter relies on the fact that the couplers would be in line, where as the adaptor John posted would allow an offset coupler center line. Since the EBT placed standard gauge cars on beefed-up narrow gauge trucks the couplers would still share the same center line allowing for use of the device pictured below. I get the impression that Johns device would allow car on dual gauge trackage to be coupled. Although I would think there would be a limit to how many cars could be coupled after that since its going to pull the car to one side. Too much weight and the first car will jump the rails…
Image clipped from the excellent write up done by: The Historic American Engineering Record
Them narrow gauge guys will try anything. (http://largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-laughing.gif)
Could this be drawn up on a cad program and made with a 3D printer? Would that material strong enough?
In scale, pulling a few cars, probably.
http://www.freerails.com/view_topic.php?id=6389&forum_id=4&page=2
Tweetsie used a similar device to pull standard gauge cars with their ten wheelers. I just learned this too.
Joe Zullo said:
Devon Sinsley said: It looks flimsy to me thought.
Though, not thought. I am trying to help our soon to be author. (http://largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-wink.gif)
Joe why did you only offer half the lesson? I tried to let this slide, but since it was bumped back up… well
“Thanks for posting John. Your always good for the odd ball things.”
Have it be known I r good for the odd ball, thus it would be correcter to say ‘you are’ or… you’re.
This concludes our remedial lesson, I hope we’re happy.
John
oddball:
brass rails… oh my!
CL Beeson said:
http://www.freerails.com/view_topic.php?id=6389&forum_id=4&page=2 Tweetsie used a similar device to pull standard gauge cars with their ten wheelers. I just learned this too.
Good find, looks to be a heavy duty model.
John