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Re: The Queensland Tilt Train - and it tilts!
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Whoops! Didnt remember this one, and I *think* one in 7740 colours cropped up
once on MOCPages too! My Bad :-@
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It has no interiors either, because the tilt axles would go at the level of
peoples heads as they walked down the carriage! Its a bit cheaper than
electric linear actuators though!
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I suppose this is the price of animated funtionality in trains.... even 8 wide
scale isnt enough sometimes. Ive been toying with some ideas that are totally
whack though... like putting one of those pneumo engines that cropped up
recently onto a loco :-d
Legoswami Samarth
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| (...) Samarth, perhaps you missed this one: (URL) 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 (...) (19 years ago, 23-Jan-05, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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