The transition from the "link & pin" to the Janney coupler

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Use the “url” in brackets trick that Ed (gmpullman) posted over here:

http://cs.trains.com/ctr/f/3/t/273549.aspx

Test

http://obts.wikia.com/RailCar_Couplers#AARx_Couplers

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The bracketed URL did not work on my attempt, guess it only works on this forum’s software when preceeded by the http://

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I added http:// at the beginning of that coupler link (groan), then it worked!

[Yoda] Finnicky, this forum software is! [/Yoda]

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That was at birth. In the back then days of turn of the 20th century, 15 percent of people didn’t make it to their first birthday. Losing that big a chunk of your cohort pushes down the life expectancy rate. If you were born in 1900 and made it to adulthood (which only about 70 percent of people did), you could expect to celebrate your 65th birthday and have a good shot at living to see Neil Armstrong walk on the moon.