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Re: Town scale Road Train with steering trailers
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lugnet.technic, lugnet.town
Date: 
Sat, 5 Apr 2003 23:18:47 GMT
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In lugnet.technic, Gerard Steenbeek writes:
This is townscale Road Train. They use Road Trains in Australia since the
distances are so great there. Road trains usually have steered trailers to
cope with intersections at teh outskirts of cities.

http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=39338

You will notice that the second and third trailer will follow the first
trailer. This is accomplished by putting a technic mechanism inside the
trailers, the pictures show work in progress to allow you to see how it
works. The last file is a 2MB movie of it in action.

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



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(...) connect (...) What I built is a B triple, those seem to be rare, more common are B doubles. (URL) 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 (...) (22 years ago, 6-Apr-03, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.town)

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