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Re: MOC Funiculaire (Mountain train) Funicular?
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Sun, 4 Aug 2002 20:57:55 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Jean-Marc Détraz writes:
> Hello There,
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> I spent quite a few time thinking and building this funicular.
> Is it the right word? It's a mountain train wich is driven on a
> central cogwheel drive? Please help me with the translation...
> {;~))
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> http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=22688
What you have built is not a funicular (at least in US usage), it's a cog
railway or rack railway.
http://www.funimag.com/ particularly this part
http://www.funimag.com/Funimag-funi02.html
has good info on funiculars. Funiculars are cable attached and drive/motive
power comes from a lifthouse at the top (or bottom), not cogs in the power
trucks.
(I've ridden two Swiss ones, the Polybahn (
http://mikeaz.free.fr/suisse/polybahn01.htm )and the Dolderbahn, both in
Zurich and reachable by trolley)
> I saw this type a train/railway when I was living in Switzerland.
> This type is not driven with a cable like some others but is totally
> independent. The steepest cog railway in the world in Lucerne,
> Switzerland climbs grades of 48% !
Swiss coggers are amazing. Horst Lehner and I got some amazing shots of the
one that runs near the Gotthard pass old road. It was moving amazingly fast
and you could hear gearwhine from hundreds of yards away.
> Here is a link with "real pictures" of several type of funicular in
> Switzerland. Most of them are cable driven.
> http://mercurio.iet.unipi.it/pix/ch/funicular/Parsennbahn/pix.html
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> Would you be so kind to give me feedback and mabe other links about
> train with cogwheel.
I LOVE your model and some of the links I gave hopefully are of some help.
Just do a Google for funicular or for rack railway or cog railway and you'll
get more.
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| Hi Larry, Thanks a lot for your precisions about the different terminologies. I sure appreciate the links and I finally realized the difference between a funicular and a cog railway. When I lived in switzerland, we called all those train just (...) (22 years ago, 5-Aug-02, to lugnet.trains)
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| Hello There, I spent quite a few time thinking and building this funicular. Is it the right word? It's a mountain train wich is driven on a central cogwheel drive? Please help me with the translation... {;~)) (URL) saw this type a train/railway when (...) (22 years ago, 4-Aug-02, to lugnet.trains)
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