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Re: 10170 TTX Intermodal Double-Stack Car Preview
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lugnet.trains
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Fri, 6 May 2005 21:39:48 GMT
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Larry Pieniazek wrote:
> In lugnet.trains, Christopher Masi wrote:
> > Larry Pieniazek wrote:
> > > In lugnet.trains, Jason J. Railton wrote:
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> > [snip]
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> > > Apparently the design may possibly have room for improvement.
> > > Having the trucks fall away when you pick the car up may not be the
> > > best approach.
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> > But it is prototypical, isn't it :?)
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> Oh, very much so! Even steam locomotive drivers (in most US
> prototypes I'm aware of) are held in place by gravity, much less
> individual freight car trucks.
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> But they have a bit more weight to work with. Most model railroad
> models don't use this approach, opting to connect the trucks to the
> car somehow.
Of course for a 5 long unit car, having the trucks integral would make for a
pretty unwieldy model...
Frank
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| (...) Oh, very much so! Even steam locomotive drivers (in most US prototypes I'm aware of) are held in place by gravity, much less individual freight car trucks. But they have a bit more weight to work with. Most model railroad models don't use this (...) (20 years ago, 5-May-05, to lugnet.trains)
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