Any interest in these before they go to scrap? i'm open to offers. Ohio 44837

Would like to get some more info about those couplers. Can you contact me privately? Thanks

Those look really rare, please don't hurry to scrap them.

They could be some brand name but custom (light weight casting) coupler for street cars or non-interchange equipment.

If the shipping is to too costly for someone to want them, donate them to the closest RR museum with a write up of what brand they were.

Now guys, what brand are they?

The contour looks to be one of the last MCB contours, and those draft springs are the smallest I've ever seen, tiny by comparison to even the 1875 Miner dual springs used on the 2' and 3' gauge equipment.

It appears there is a marking on the top of the coupler head which should give a clue to the model. It is shown in the 3rd photo (#733).

These couplers came from the same heavyweight car the trucks were from. Here is a close up of the logo if you can make it out.

The coupler head appears to swivel on the coupler shank. In fact there appear to be two swivel points: (1) at the inside end of the coupler shank (the usual location for locomotive and passenger car couplers), and (2) immediately behind the coupler head. The spring in the middle of the shank is also very unusual.

I suspect these were for a freight or passenger car used on an interurban. Some interurbans had to negotiate very tight streetcar curves on city streets. Probably this is from one of these operations.

- Doug Debs

I can clearly see a raised 1-44 there, thats a January 1944 casting, so its something modern.

A Street car museum would probably like to have those very much.

These couplers came from a steel kitchen-diner combo car that was on the RF&P RR. I cut the rivets out of the frame and removed them myself. Like I said in the previous post, it was the same car the triple axle trucks came from. Would that railroad have used interurban couplers under their heavyweight cars?