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Re: high speed railways and strange flat bed cars
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Date: 
Thu, 18 Mar 1999 03:16:01 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Christopher Masi wrote (in part):

  ____car____  ____car____  ____car____
x--x         x--x         x--x         x--x •   <snip>
Anyone working on a reduced wheel set design? There are certainly some
interesting technical issues invovled. Anyway, just trying to spark more
discussion.

  You can look at my Freight Container Car page.

        http://baylug.org/zonker/ZContCar.html

            -Z-



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  Re: high speed railways and strange flat bed cars
 
OK OK I get the point..been there done that. I guess I need to spend more time looking at all your web sites. Sorry for overlooking/forgetting some of the things that have been done out there! Chris (...) (25 years ago, 18-Mar-99, to lugnet.trains)

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  high speed railways and strange flat bed cars
 
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 (...) (25 years ago, 17-Mar-99, to lugnet.trains)

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