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Re: high speed railways and strange flat bed cars
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Wed, 17 Mar 1999 05:10:39 GMT
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lpien@IWANTNOSPAM{nomorespam}.ctp.com
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Christopher Masi wrote:
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> Something I noticed while driving past the rail yard and while watching
> "Extreme Machines" or was it "Trains Unlimited" is a trick that both
> high-speed trains and freight trains use to reduce rolling resistance.
> The trick is to cut down the rolling resistance by cutting down the
> number of bogies/wheel sets. Instead of each car having two sets of
> wheels, two cars are connected to one sets of wheels. I regularly see
> flat bed cars that have wheels arranged like this.
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> ____car____ ____car____ ____car____
> x--x x--x x--x x--x
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> instead of the standard
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> ____car____ ____car____ ____car____
> x-x x-x x-x x-x x-x x-x
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> Anyone working on a reduced wheel set design? There are certainly some
> interesting technical issues invovled. Anyway, just trying to spark more
> discussion.
Been there, done that. An artic was the very first thing I tried.
I can't find the pics anymore but it was pretty fragile. It used 2x2
turntables for the pivots.
I did a 5 unit double stack just before I left CO. See:
http://my.voyager.net/lar/containers.html and go to the bottom.
That uses technic 2x2 tile with center technic pin for the pivots. Much
sturdier.
Zonker Harris did a Thrall-ish double stack too, also using 2x2
turntables.
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