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German Railway terminology?

Does anyone know what these words mean:

Bügel auf

Bügel ab

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  • 1 decade ago
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    It became a colloquial term for pantograph up - pantograph down, because it's nice and short. Though some call the whole pantograph "Bügel", while others do only mean the pantograph shoe.

    Real railway specialists will have a problem with all of that. They will say, a Bügel must look like this:

    http://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Datei:Ha...

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