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Re: high speed railways and strange flat bed cars
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lugnet.trains
Date: 
Wed, 17 Mar 1999 07:22:03 GMT
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Anyone working on a reduced wheel set design? There are certainly some
interesting technical issues invovled. Anyway, just trying to spark more
discussion.


I did a metroliner like that:

SEE

http://www.svc.fcj.hvu.nl/brok/legomind/models
select from menu: Trains and then Articulated Metroliner

OR

Direct link without navigation:
http://homepages.svc.fcj.hvu.nl/brok/legomind/models/trains/metrol.html


Eric Brok
Visit LEGO ON MY MIND:
http://www.svc.fcj.hvu.nl/brok/legomind
Mindstorms/Mind Control section:
http://www.svc.fcj.hvu.nl/brok/legomind/robo
Dutch section:
http://www.svc.fcj.hvu.nl/brok/legomind/nl



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  Re: high speed railways and strange flat bed cars
 
(...) I forgot about this one. Oh well. Also I learned that Larry has done a bunch of flatbeds. I have not had time to go through all of Larry's site. (...) (25 years ago, 17-Mar-99, to lugnet.trains)

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  high speed railways and strange flat bed cars
 
Something I noticed while driving past the rail yard and while watching "Extreme Machines" or was it "Trains Unlimited" is a trick that both high-speed trains and freight trains use to reduce rolling resistance. The trick is to cut down the rolling (...) (25 years ago, 17-Mar-99, to lugnet.trains)

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