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Re: Nice double stack container cars!!!!
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lugnet.trains
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Wed, 27 Mar 2002 13:18:21 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, James Mathis writes:
> Thanks for building the container cars. I've only built two cars; ie:
> (wheels with magnet)-car-(shared wheels)-car-(wheels with magnet)
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> From other container car discusions here, I think that this whole string of
> cars is actually defined to be "one car" in the freight train industry. Is
> that completely independent of how many cars you string together with shared
> wheelsets? Say ten cars all with shared wheels; still one car?
Yes, it's all one car and it's called an articulated car. Usually they have
3 or 5 "units".
TJ
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| Thanks for building the container cars. I've only built two cars; ie: (wheels with magnet)-car-(shared wheels)-car-(wheels with magnet) From other container car discusions here, I think that this whole string of cars is actually defined to be "one (...) (25 years ago, 27-Mar-02, to lugnet.trains)
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