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Re: 10170 TTX Intermodal Double-Stack Car Preview
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lugnet.trains
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Tue, 3 May 2005 14:35:12 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Tim David wrote:
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I’ll give you the buffers, but I don’t see that the wheelsets are
particularly European, in what way do you mean?
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American trucks don’t have wheel level individual springs. The individual wheels
are typically unsprung, and ride in a truck frame that has springs either at the
center beam (for freight) or at multiple places in a larger truck frame (for
passenger). SOMETIMES there will be a spring between the journal box/bearing and
the frame, but (almost(1)?) never one on each side the way LEGO molded it.
J2, among others, has made models of american (bettendorf or AAR) trucks by
taking the wheels out of the wheelholders and building something else up.
That LEGO wheel is probably more representative of a 19th century european 4
wheel car’s wheel arrangement than anything else.
1 - never say never, there’s always a prototype somewhere. But I speak of common
practice.
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 | | Re: 10170 TTX Intermodal Double-Stack Car Preview
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| (...) Yes, I'll agree that the US doesn't really do four wheel vehicles However I have never really thought of the Lego wheelsets as being European as they have coil springs when the style of suspension with W irons represented had/have leaf springs (...) (20 years ago, 3-May-05, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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