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Re: MOC Funiculaire (Mountain train) Funicular?
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Mon, 5 Aug 2002 03:27:24 GMT
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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 "funicular" and then I remebered that
the proper word in french is "chemin de fer à crémaillières" which
stands for cog railway.
And of course the difference is enormous.
I used a few of them too. for ex:
- Aigle-Leysin
- Berner Oberland Bahn
- Bex-Col de Bretaye
- Brig-Zermatt Bahn
- Lausenne-Ouchy
- Vevey-Les Pleiades
- Rochers de Naye
And more... They all have a few common points:
- Breathtaking vews
- Impressive climbing grades
- Remarquably fast
- safe and a lot of fun
I realised that my MOC has more a funicular design than a cog railway
train. The cog railway are on regular narrow gage rails and can run
as well on low grade without the cog mechanism working. Therefore
they are very versatile and confortable.
Thanks also to Adrian for your great link.
Play well, Jean-Marc
In lugnet.trains, Larry Pieniazek writes:
> 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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