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Nostalgia & History > Southern 2823 at Circleville, Oh, Nov 1984Date: 10/29/14 20:04 Southern 2823 at Circleville, Oh, Nov 1984 Author: Gateway97 The face of the NS unit assigned to local switch duties at Circleville in November of 1984.
 Date: 10/29/14 20:53 Re: Southern 2823 at Circleville, Oh, Nov 1984 Author: PHall Question for the Southern Railway experts.
What is that extra connector on the MU receptacle? There's the 27 pin MU receptacle, what's the other one used for? Date: 10/29/14 21:34 Re: Southern 2823 at Circleville, Oh, Nov 1984 Author: krm152 The best explanation I can give you is the following.
The agent at Barber NC (1972-1976) had a two wire jumper cable in his office. He said that it was for the "jumper" receptacle next to the MU receptacle. He said that this cable was used when a locomotive "would not load up". I hope that maybe it makes sense to you. I am not a technically oriented person but do remember what he told me. ALLEN Date: 10/30/14 09:22 Re: Southern 2823 at Circleville, Oh, Nov 1984 Author: FECcarman The extra receptacle is to allow a battery jumper cable to be plugged in between locomotives.Very handy when a locomotive will not start because of dead batteries..
Date: 10/30/14 12:15 Re: Southern 2823 at Circleville, Oh, Nov 1984 Author: Rathole Yep - this is exactly right.
FECcarman Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > The extra receptacle is to allow a battery jumper > cable to be plugged in between locomotives.Very > handy when a locomotive will not start because of > dead batteries.. |