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When train cars are linked together{coupled} it was much like a trailer hitch, but instead of a ball hitch, there was a pin hitch. The man who aligned the hitch and dropped in the pin was sometimes referred to as the "Pinhead" . I'm not sure if this may be a mechanized operation these days.

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