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Re: The Queensland Tilt Train - and it tilts!
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lugnet.trains
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Sun, 23 Jan 2005 14:36:28 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Samarth Moray wrote:
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Congratulations, Esben! Thats a fine looking train. I find the tilt mechanism
very interesting! Only one other tilt train I know of is James Mathis’ APT,
which from what I know, uses a similar mechanism. It’s a pity that this
doesn’t have interiors, but that IS asking a bit much, so I’m not going to
heckle. And I feel your pain about the curved top bricks- I’m going to have
to order 120 (!!!) of those for my own train soon....
Best Wishes,
Legoswami Samarth
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Samarth, perhaps you missed this one:
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=77379
A 4-car British Pendolino, using bevel gears for the tilt. This means it can
cope well with double bends (the Hornby APT rises up on double bends because it
relies on a tilted curved track on which the bogie pin rests). Each carriage
acts like a differential gear, the body tilting by the average turn of the two
bogies.
It has no interiors either, because the tilt axles would go at the level of
people’s heads as they walked down the carriage! It’s a bit cheaper than
electric linear actuators though!
Mark
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 | | Re: The Queensland Tilt Train - and it tilts!
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| (...) A long time ago there was an example of another kind of active tilt (this QSR one uses gravity, near as I can tell) posted by, IIRC, Eric Brok. (URL) That one used 45 degree sloped pivots to force turns as the cars went through curves. VERY (...) (20 years ago, 23-Jan-05, to lugnet.trains)
| | | Re: The Queensland Tilt Train - and it tilts!
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| (...) Whoops! Didn't remember this one, and I *think* one in 7740 colours cropped up once on MOCPages too! My Bad :-@ (...) I suppose this is the price of animated funtionality in trains.... even 8 wide scale isn't enough sometimes. I've been toying (...) (20 years ago, 23-Jan-05, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: The Queensland Tilt Train - and it tilts!
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| Congratulations, Esben! Thats a fine looking train. I find the tilt mechanism very interesting! Only one other tilt train I know of is James Mathis' APT, which from what I know, uses a similar mechanism. It's a pity that this doesn't have interiors, (...) (20 years ago, 23-Jan-05, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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