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Re: MOC Funiculaire (Mountain train) Funicular?
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lugnet.trains
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Mon, 5 Aug 2002 01:12:54 GMT
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Adrian Egli <adr.egli@worldnet.att.net!spamcake!>
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Might want to give this site a try:
http://digilander.libero.it/zh/cograilways/index.html
Adrian Egli
"Larry Pieniazek" <lpieniazek@mercator.com> wrote in message
news:H0C7KK.5tC@lugnet.com...
> In lugnet.trains, Jean-Marc Détraz writes:
> > 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...
> > {;~))
> >
> > 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
> >
> > 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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| (...) railway or rack railway. (URL) particularly this part (URL) 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, (...) (22 years ago, 4-Aug-02, to lugnet.trains)
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