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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 23:38:56 GMT
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In lugnet.technic, Gerard Steenbeek writes:
> > 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.
In Australia, I think B-double and triple usually refers to trains where
each trailer has a fifth wheel on the back axle block. Road train generally
refers to trailers with yoked front axle, similar to horse drawn carriages
in the old wild west. I found a pic of a 3 trailer road train here
http://www.bulldogmarketing.com.au/truck7.jpg and here's a good pic of one
of the trailers showing the yoke http://www.bulldogmarketing.com.au/truck5.jpg
Also found at the same site a pic of a 29(!) trailer road train
http://www.bulldogmarketing.com.au/collectables.htm
> 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.
Give it time 8?)
ROSCO
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