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Once Congress passed the Safety Appliance Act in 1893, mandating conversion from the link and pin coupler to the Janney coupler, railroads in the United States had only a few years to implement the change. The railroads in North America, except for mass transit, form one unitary system, and uniformity of couplers is important for smooth ...
[[Category:Rail routemap templates]] to the <includeonly> section at the bottom of that page. Otherwise, add <noinclude>[[Category:Rail routemap templates]]</noinclude> to the end of the template code, making sure it starts on the same line as the code's last character.
For information on using this template, see Template:Routemap. For pictograms used, see Commons:BSicon/Catalogue . Note: Per consensus and convention, most route-map templates are used in a single article in order to separate their complex and fragile syntax from normal article wikitext.
Narrow gauge flat wagons, 750 mm (2 ft 5 + 1 ⁄ 2 in).Note the single buffer with a hook on the right side and a chain on the other. On some narrow-gauge lines in Europe, and on the Paris Metro, a simplified version of the loose-coupler is used, consisting of a single central buffer with a chain underneath.
If the template has a separate documentation page (usually called "Template:template name/doc"), add [[Category:United States rail network templates]] to the <includeonly> section at the bottom of that page. Otherwise, add <noinclude>[[Category:United States rail network templates]]</noinclude>
Route diagram titles should not be wikilinks. The diagram should be transcluded into the parent article, and a link to the parent is normally added to the template page by {{Railway-routemap}} or one of its related templates. If it is necessary to have a link in the title it should be in the |map-title= subtitle.
[[Category:Routemap templates]] to the <includeonly> section at the bottom of that page. Otherwise, add <noinclude>[[Category:Routemap templates]]</noinclude> to the end of the template code, making sure it starts on the same line as the code's last character.
The route diagram templates encompass a main container, named {}. This system provides a uniform layout for route-map infoboxes, mainly for railway lines but also for other modes of transport such as waterways. The more efficient {} template has now replaced {} and its auxiliary templates, many of which started with "BS-