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Re: Town scale Road Train with steering trailers
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lugnet.technic, lugnet.town
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Sun, 6 Apr 2003 02:04:43 GMT
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> Hi Gerard
>
> That looks really interesting! I've never seen road trains with axles like
> that - all the ones i've seen just have a standard trailer first, and the
> following trailers have a steerable axle on the front with a yoke to • connect
> to the trailer in front, which have the problem you describe going around
> tight corners. Do you have any links to pages with real trucks in action?
> I'm thinking maybe a larger version would be interesting 8?)
>
> ROSCO
What I built is a B triple, those seem to be rare, more common are B
doubles.
http://www.internetjosh.com/images/Volvo-Road-Train.jpg
In that photo they have 2 B doubles together. In north america you sometimes
see B doubles as well.
Mine also pivots at the end of the trailers to allow steering on such a
small scale.
To build it the way most road trains seem to be (i live in canada, working
from photo's) would be hard to do at that scale, regular pull bar things in
miniland sets can`t pull the weight, anything bigger would throw it out of
scale.
Bigger? I dunno, that requires a lot of parts, this one has more 16 stud
beams than any set you can buy in stores (12). It would be nice but too
expensive for me right now.
Gerard
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