Hello,
I was just wanted to talk about some model railroad slang. I was interested in slang terms for couplers, and what the most popular slang term is out there for them? Thanks!
slj4
On the real railroad. A brakeman might say "on the pin" meaning, take the tension off the coupler pin, so you can uncouple. That's the only thing I can think of. Model railroading none.
NYC_George
Don't know of MR slang, but here is one of many sites with railroad slang.
http://catskillarchive.com/rrextra/glossry1.Html
Actually we would tell the engineer to slack 'em West or East depending on the way we needed the slack.On the PRR we use a hand signal.