Identify this locomotive part?

[spookshow]

I found this part loose in the box with my new Atlas CP GP40-2. I don't see any obvious place where it would go and there is no mention of it in the parts diagram. Any ideas?



Thanks!
-Mark

[Missaberoad]

It's clearly a Plumbus.


 

[jwaldo]

It looks to me like a bit of the sprue that the handrails are molded on. Not sure how a piece of scrap like that would go unnoticed in the box all the way to shipping it, though.

Edit: it does look more like the snubber from one of the truck sideframes.

[u18b]

@spookshow
Mark,
Is that the snubber (I think it's called) in the truck.
Atlas uses a separate tiny part for the little piston that fits in a hole on a journal on the truck.

 

[spookshow]

Thanks Ron, that's exactly what it was. And what a diabolical thing to have to reattach, yikes! 

-Mark

[JMaurer1]

It's a PENNY! 1/100th of a dollar...

[Doug G.]

Hehe, he said "diabolical".



Doug

[mecgp7]

It's a PENNY! 1/100th of a dollar...

Brilliant!

[randgust]

It's a Lincoln Pin coupler.

[Lackawannae8]

Weight reduction