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Re: MOC: Schnabel car
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lugnet.trains
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Sun, 12 Oct 2003 22:33:18 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Rob Hendrix wrote:
> 6 wide x 112 long with 20 axles. Schnabel cars are the brutes of the train
> world and this one isn't the largest! They carry large loads; this one was
> loosely modelled after a 20 axle owned bt ABB Power Generation. The real
> model can carry 1,000,000 lbs. My next mission is build something for it to
> carry (maybe a transformer or something else HEAVY!), and a standard flat
> car to carry the center section of the Schnabel car when not in use.
Color me jealous, this has been on my to-do list for a while, I even got as far
as trying to mock up the multi-truck bridge bogies in MLCad. They get tall FAST.
Why the 20 axle one, though? I'm thinking one of the other ones you can get to
from the prototype page (the 12 axle, for example) might have not looked quite
so ridiculous on a curve :-) This is a place where you really need selective
compression.
Nice work. Spotlighted!
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 | | Re: MOC: Schnabel car
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| Well, if you are going to do it, you might as well do it LARGE! I would imagine even the full scale units have certain radii curves they can't negotiate. This is just another one of those reasons we need different radii curves from TLC!!! The 12 (...) (21 years ago, 12-Oct-03, to lugnet.trains)
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| 6 wide x 112 long with 20 axles. Schnabel cars are the brutes of the train world and this one isn't the largest! They carry large loads; this one was loosely modelled after a 20 axle owned bt ABB Power Generation. The real model can carry 1,000,000 (...) (21 years ago, 12-Oct-03, to lugnet.trains) !
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