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Re: MOC Funiculaire (Mountain train) Funicular?
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lugnet.trains
Date: 
Mon, 5 Aug 2002 01:12:54 GMT
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Adrian Egli <adr.egli@!spamless!worldnet.att.net>
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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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