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Re: Brit-Rail APT (Advanced Passenger Train)
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lugnet.trains
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Sat, 2 Jun 2001 01:05:37 GMT
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Sporadic? Moi?
I have some trad photos somewhere detailing the bogeys which can be scanned
- I have not the patience or the desire to set up my own website right now
but when scanned they can of course be emailed or put on someone else's
site. The Tilt train is still built but I have had a half-hearted attempt to
rebuild the bogeys as they were too light. Unfortunately weight=bulk so I'm
up against a brick wall here, excuse the pun.
Jason's correct in his assessment, they work like skateboard trucks.
Jon
In lugnet.trains, Tony Priestman writes:
> On Thu, 31 May 2001, Jason J. Railton (<GE7F01.HM9@lugnet.com>) wrote at
> 14:31:13
> >
> > Someone brought a working tilt train along to Tony Priestman's Lego Fest
> > earlier this year. Who was it? I was hoping to have another look at it at
> > Gosport, but it didn't show.
> >
> > It worked by having a large bogey pinned upright then pivoted horizontally
> > onto the rear of one carriage, then also pinned under the front of the next
> > one. The rear of the carriage was free to both turn and roll, but the pivot
> > at the front of each carriage was angled, so that the carriage was forced to
> > roll slightly as it turned into a corner, like a skateboard truck. By only
> > forcing one end to tilt in this way, with the other end free, it could
> > easily handle zig-zag tracks and points.
> >
> > A brilliant (if slightly flimsy) mechanism. I'd like to try one myself if I
> > could stand to build a diesel :-)
> >
> > So, come on, who was it?
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> It's Jon Reynolds.
>
> His online appearances are a bit sporadic, so I'll see if I can dig out
> some pictures that I took a while ago.
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| On Thu, 31 May 2001, Jason J. Railton (<GE7F01.HM9@lugnet.com>) wrote at 14:31:13 (...) It's Jon Reynolds. His online appearances are a bit sporadic, so I'll see if I can dig out some pictures that I took a while ago. (23 years ago, 31-May-01, to lugnet.trains)
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