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Re: Wheel Car
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lugnet.trains
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Mon, 28 Aug 2000 03:26:57 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, James Powell writes:
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> > 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,
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> Ha! The great Larry makes a Misteak...the trucks are mounted to the bolster
> using a pin
What mistake is that, James?
It's a friction pin... there is no positive engagement mechanism holding the
truck to the car, except gravity.
IIRC you tried to call me on this so called mistake once before, give it up. I
don't make mistakes.
++Lar
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 | | Re: Wheel Car
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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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