I see a knuckle pin, a flame-cut train emergency wrench and draft gear/coupler key. Don’t know what that curved thing is…
There is a better pic of the first one I found a few posts up. There is a delay in my post because they are having to be approved since I’m new. Also, there is a pic of the B&O pin. It’s not mine, just a pic I found on the web.
Does this look familiar?
Yep, that’s the one with the flat top. The other I think is an actual coupler pin.
More history of the link and pin couplers. From reading on the old Internet, the pin sitting on the cardboard matches the design of the pins on this site…
For those of you that don’t know, the only purpose of the knuckle pin is to keep the knuckle attached to the draw head. You can couple the cars together and then remove the pin and the cars will stay coupled. I have made many a cut and as the car moved away, the knuckle on the stationary car would fall to the ground!
As I’m sure you know, a couple spikes can be jammed in the pin’s hole if you can’t find another pin.
Many knuckle pins that weren’t cotter keyed in place have ended up in being shipped overseas when the cars are turned over by rotary car dumpers in the export coal business.