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Re: Brickish Railways newcomer
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lugnet.trains
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Fri, 2 Nov 2001 19:37:56 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Shaun Sullivan writes:
> > In lugnet.trains, Simon Bennett writes:
> > > How do you do a Co-Co bogie when the wheelsets are 3-long?
> Another idea is to provide rotation in the middle of the truck ... I did
> something along these lines for my German Railway Gun:
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> http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=71464
> http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=71465
> http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=71478
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> In this case, two of the axles are fixed with respect to each other, and the
> third is allowed to pivot. A slightly different design which gets to the same
> result, and in a bogie-sized package as well :)
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> -s
That looks really neat. I'm pretty sure I've seen something like that in
use on a real loco somewhere.
Psi
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| (...) EMD steerable truck? That's recent and improves running performance on 6 axle locos. Doesn't bend as much as the ones we do of course. I used a variant on this idea (ball and socket parts rather than the roundend plate and pin) in my Big Red, (...) (23 years ago, 3-Nov-01, to lugnet.trains)
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| (...) Another idea is to provide rotation in the middle of the truck ... I did something along these lines for my German Railway Gun: (URL) this case, two of the axles are fixed with respect to each other, and the third is allowed to pivot. A (...) (23 years ago, 2-Nov-01, to lugnet.trains)
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