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Re: Retarders (was Re: Train Stoppers)
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lugnet.trains
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Wed, 8 Mar 2000 20:55:58 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Christopher Tracey writes:
> 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.
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> -Chris
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> 1- we aren't building a hump yard, it's just something we were talking
> about.... it would be cool though.
How about using the FO pieces rased using a pnumatic cylinder? I don't imagine
that you would manage to build a hump yard except on a 'special' table, so the
mounting wouldn't be impossible, but they would work OK I think for use as
retarders. (don't know, haven't tried it)
James P
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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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