@gunrunnerjohn posted:Lou, must be interesting when you get the car in the wrong place and that tube lifts it off the rails.
I safeguard against that by making sure the car is spotted correctly for the remote uncoupler to actuate the coupler. Hopper car spotting is kind of critical because there's not a lot of space between the truck frame and the hopper chute.
Plus, the pin won't lift a car body because I use the Tortoise supplied piano-wire lever between the Tortoise machine and the brass plunger. The piano wire simply flexes if the plunger comes up against something on the spotted car.