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Re: Wheel Car
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lugnet.trains
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Sun, 27 Aug 2000 21:50:06 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Christopher Tracey writes:
> 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)
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> hmm... difficult to model that in our medium.
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?
> The prototype i saw was
> only carrying five wheelsets and they weren't staggered- I'll have to
> look for more pics.
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> > 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.
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> I'm working on modeling a wreck train. It's slow going.
Depending on vintage, skip the wheel car and make a car that has trucks on it
instead. What they take to wrecks nowadays are complete trucks. Since the cars
sit on the trucks by friction, they put the trucks down and then lower the
derailed car down onto the trucks. A truck car will have most standard sizes
of trucks on it, or they'll load up based on what the wreck report is.
This is often done slowly, on track specially laid (from prefab brought on a
special car) for the purpose. It won't be done as a part of the initial wreck
clearing operation when speed is paramount, getting the line opened takes
precedence over retrieving a few cars.
++Lar
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Message has 2 Replies:
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| (...) Ha! The great Larry makes a Misteak...the trucks are mounted to the bolster using a pin!...it just happens to be the weakest part of the whole lot, so it breaks, and the trucks tend to get bashed up a lot (and are relatively easy to move (...) (24 years ago, 27-Aug-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| (...) Right, I just popped the wheelsets out of the frames. I was referring that modeling two sets of rails in order to stagger the wheelsets would be difficult to model in a six wide car since there has to be four studs between the rails. Now, that (...) (24 years ago, 28-Aug-00, to lugnet.trains)
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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. (...) (24 years ago, 27-Aug-00, to lugnet.trains)
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