Mining train dumping copper ore - GIF

Mining train dumping copper ore.

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Previously:

https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...517#post197105
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...727#post193925
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...358#post185220
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...393#post185368
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...224#post180709

Oh that is slick. The thing barely even slows down. I worked on a coal terminal that had a dumper/flipper similar to the one in the video below, but the one on site flipped two cars simultaneously instead of one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbJl_Astx_w

So, the cars never uncouple for this operation? Does that mean the cars rotate on the axis of the couplers and the couplers swivel?

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Originally Posted by Hoosiersmoker

So, the cars never uncouple for this operation? Does that mean the cars rotate on the axis of the couplers and the couplers swivel?

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Yup. At least that's how I understand it. I don't know anything about train couplers so I'm not sure how they pull this off.