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Re: Retarders (was Re: Train Stoppers)
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lugnet.trains
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Wed, 8 Mar 2000 18:06:56 GMT
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wubwub@wildlink.NOMORESPAMcom
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Christopher Tracey <ctracey@wamalug.org> wrote:
> While we are on the subject of stopping rail cars...
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> Does anyone have any ideas for a pneumatic powered retarder for use in
> WAMALUGs new hump yard(1)? In real life, retarders are hydralic
> powered machines that grab the wheels of freight cars was they roll
> down the hump in a hump yard. It functions to slow them down so they
> don't hit the rest of the cars in the yard with too great a force.
...But do we really need to be more retarded? I have enuf problems as
it is...
> 1- we aren't building a hump yard, it's just something we were talking
> about.... it would be cool though.
....hmmmm humping??... film it :-)
...you can go back to ignoring me now...
wubwub
stephen f roberts
wildlink.com
lugnet #160
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| While we are on the subject of stopping rail cars... Does anyone have any ideas for a pneumatic powered retarder for use in WAMALUGs new hump yard(1)? In real life, retarders are hydralic powered machines that grab the wheels of freight cars was (...) (25 years ago, 8-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains)
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