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| | | (...) Does this mean that you can go through the curves at full speed without derailing, using the tilting mechanism? Ludo Soete (...) (23 years ago, 9-Feb-02, to lugnet.trains)
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| | | | | Re: How did James Mathis make his tilting trains? —James Mathis
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| | | | (...) No. Even in real-life trains, I'm not sure that making a train tilt through a curve necessarily enables it to go any faster than it could if it didn't tilt. It is my understanding that tilting the train cars is more to keep passengers more (...) (23 years ago, 9-Feb-02, to lugnet.trains)
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| | | | | | Re: Tilting trains (Used to be: how did James Mathis make his tilting trains?) —John Henry Kruer
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| | | | (...) LECTURE LECTURE LECTURE LECTURE LECTURE LECTURE LECTURE LECTURE LECTURE I have a 'Ultimate Visual Dictionary' and it has a pair of pages about tilting trains, though it only mentions the Pendolino and a 'French tilting train' that it dosn't (...) (23 years ago, 10-Feb-02, to lugnet.trains)
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| | | | | | Re: Tilting trains (Used to be: how did James Mathis make his tilting trains?) —James Mathis
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| | | | | John: Thanks for quantifying that the "tilt allows speeds up to 30% higher then normal". Sounds like a good couple of pages of reading in that 'Ultimate Visual Dictionary'. later, James Mathis (...) (23 years ago, 10-Feb-02, to lugnet.trains)
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| | | | | | Re: Tilting trains (Used to be: how did James Mathis make his tilting trains?) —James Mathis
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| | | | Some tilting train reading if you're interested: (URL) Mathis (23 years ago, 10-Feb-02, to lugnet.trains)
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| | | | | | Re: Tilting trains (Used to be: how did James Mathis make his tilting trains?) —Rob Hendrix
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| | | | I thought scientists disproved the whole "centrifugal force" thing years ago? And decided that centripital force would take its place... -Rob "James Mathis" <thakius@nmt.edu> wrote in message news:GrAuvL.Aw8@lugnet.com... (...) (23 years ago, 10-Feb-02, to lugnet.trains)
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| | | | | | RE: Tilting trains (Used to be: how did James Mathis make his tilting trains?) —Bram Lambrecht
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| | | | Rhendrix wrtes: (...) Centrifugal force doesn't actually exist, it's an imaginary force felt in a rotating system. Consider an elevator accelerating upwards. The extra acceleration makes you feel heavier. It's as if there's an extra force besides (...) (23 years ago, 10-Feb-02, to lugnet.trains)
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