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Re: Wheel Car
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lugnet.trains
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Sun, 27 Aug 2000 13:53:27 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Christopher Tracey writes:
> Does anyone know anything more about these cars. What does the bed of
> the car look like? and how are the wheels(the ones being carried)
> attached/secured?
As with all american prototype questions, the answer is "it depends"... :-)
However the ones I have seen use 2 or (rarely) 3 sets of rails, welded or
bolted to the deck. The sets of rails are staggered about 6 inches apart so
that you can stagger wheelsets (the bearing end of one wheelset on one set of
rails sticks between the space between two wheels on the set of rails next to
it)
The rails have rounded blocks welded to the ends so the wheels can't roll off.
Sometimes they weld more blocks every so often on the rails, and sometimes
just use big eyes and chains looped over the center of the axles. (the latter
is preferred as it has less restriction on what size wheels can be carried)
These cars are most often seen in wreck service, carrying replacement wheels
out to a wreck site, or as a work car within a shop complex taking newly
turned wheels to the truckshop.
That is to say, rarely nowadays compared to yesteryear.
++Lar (from Australia and really, I should go to bed but my body has NO idea
what time it is)
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| (...) hmm... difficult to model that in our medium. The prototype i saw was only carrying five wheelsets and they weren't staggered- I'll have to look for more pics. (...) I'm working on modeling a wreck train. It's slow going. (...) (25 years ago, 27-Aug-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| For a tension tamer before the first week of classes, I dug out a lot of the lego that has been packed away for several weeks due to my move and built this wheel carrier car. (URL) was inspired from a reference picture that I saw in an (...) (25 years ago, 27-Aug-00, to lugnet.trains)
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