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Re: Wheel Car
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Date: 
Sun, 27 Aug 2000 15:20:32 GMT
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Larry Pieniazek wrote:
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)

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.

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.

I'm working on modeling a wreck train. It's slow going.

That is to say, rarely nowadays compared to yesteryear.



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(...) of (...) to (...) Disagree. That's what grey straight track rail is for!!! Or use tiles set on end between studs. I assume you popped the wheelsets out of 9V wheelset assemblies to do what you did so far, right? (...) Depending on vintage, (...) (24 years ago, 27-Aug-00, to lugnet.trains)

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(...) 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 (...) (24 years ago, 27-Aug-00, to lugnet.trains)

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