Question on trains.?

Question

What do you call the springs on the end of a train?

Answer 1

In the UK, there are buffers that stradle either side of the coupler. The UK has been using them for over 100 years. Helps to cushion the impact of assembling a train. The US never used them. They say that the US engineers are more skilled at train driving, and don't need buffers. But, that's just what I've heard some railroad folks say.

Answer 2

They are not springs. most modern trains are not fitted with these objects anymore, you really see them on Freight or Loco Haul only.  They are known as buffers, the end of the sidings are the buffer stops. Was trained on how to use the saddles on, dead coupling and drop / raise buckeyes on old Mk1 Coaches, dirty job.

Answer 3

No springs directly ON the ends of trains in the U.S.

The very end of all cars and locomotives is the coupler, and a lot of freight cars have spring mechanism built into the structure of the frame to cushion the load from forces generated through the coupling mechanism.

This is U.S. railraod standard.

Some tracks have a spring device at the end for stopping cars, usually in a building or end of an industrial track, lots of names for them, I have usually heard them called bumpers or buffers around here.

When I was in Europe I noticed some heavy duty spring looking devices on each corner of the cars at the level of the couplers that I assumed were to absorb some of the shock that our cushioned draft gears absorb.

Answer 4

buffers are at the end of all carriages and wagons except for fixed-coupled systems such as ATP, Eurostar etc.

The buffers have springs in them

Answer 5

in the u.k there called buffers.

Answer 6

The buffers.