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Re: Tri-axle Prussian State Railroad Coaches
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Date: 
Thu, 9 Jan 2003 11:47:07 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Steve Barile writes:
Here's what I came up with when thinking about what to build with the
current green coaches. The wheel geometry came from a collaboration between
Dan Parker (PNLTC) and James Mathis about 3 years ago (thanks guys). I first
saw this when Dan showed us and I couldn't believe the center wheel, "how
weird", but cool to model for something different. A simple design but
captures the essence. I can't seem to find any images of these on-line,
anyone over in Europe have a link?

Could you describe how they work?  I've used sliding blocks for my tri-axle
wheelsets, although they can't be any longer overall than a normal
twin-axles base.  Are you using a pivoting lever system, because you said
they had trouble backing up?


Jason J Railton



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  Re: Tri-axle Prussian State Railroad Coaches
 
OK, Here you go... (URL) have heard of the translating center wheelset within 3 a axle bogie to irradicate the planer issuses thru curves. Great idea, can you repost a link to that. I'd love to see it and it would make for a good url trail on this (...) (22 years ago, 9-Jan-03, to lugnet.trains)

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  Tri-axle Prussian State Railroad Coaches
 
Here's what I came up with when thinking about what to build with the current green coaches. The wheel geometry came from a collaboration between Dan Parker (PNLTC) and James Mathis about 3 years ago (thanks guys). I first saw this when Dan showed (...) (22 years ago, 8-Jan-03, to lugnet.trains) ! 

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