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Re: Train Terminology Question
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lugnet.trains
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Tue, 5 Mar 2002 21:36:08 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Jake McKee writes:
> If they share wheelsets, then the way to describe that sharing is by saying
> the cars are articulated. Interestingly, railroads refer to a set of
> articulated cars (typically three or five) as one single car. I am not
> totally clear why, but I believe there is some record keeping or accounting
> issue that makes that a good thing.
Funny you should mention this.. I saw some of those yesterday. Weird looking
that the wheelsets were between the units and shared the articulation point. The
first one kinda surprised me, so the next one I counted a 5 unit assembly, then
later I watched a 3 unit go by. Most of them had wheelless cargo containers on
them. A few were even double-stacked.
Even stranger was the engine compliment pulling the freight: first a 'Cotton
Belt', then a 'Union Pacific', lastly a green unliveried engine (other than four
letters, 'GATX' if I remember correctly).
Ray
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