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| (...) Well, duh. It's a railway with a rack. Seriously. :-) More detail... these are sometimes also called "cog" railways. They are so called because in addition to the two weight bearing rails there is a central rack (linear toothed) that a powered (...) (26 years ago, 9-Dec-98, to lugnet.general, lugnet.trains)
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| (...) A) What's a rack railway? B) What're the details on the one in Houghton? Did they run it up the side of the MEEM? Nah, then the ROTC's wouldn't have anything to rappel... Steve (26 years ago, 9-Dec-98, to lugnet.general, lugnet.trains)
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| (...) There used to be one of these at Niagara Falls, somewhere, and I rode it when I was about 7 or so. Pretty neat, especially when you get to the middle and the other car passes you. I think there is one in Pittsburgh too. What I like better, (...) (26 years ago, 9-Dec-98, to lugnet.general, lugnet.trains)
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| (...) I want these parts, they are wicked cool. (26 years ago, 9-Dec-98, to lugnet.trains)
| | | | | Re: 1999 Train 4561
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| (...) Nope. Those could never circus load. The trucks have small wheels and there is clever engineering to get the floor as low as possible, but the floor is the same level from one bridge plate to the other. (26 years ago, 9-Dec-98, to lugnet.trains)
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