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Re: high speed railways and strange flat bed cars
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lugnet.trains
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Thu, 18 Mar 1999 15:32:32 GMT
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Christopher Masi wrote:
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> OK OK I get the point..been there done that. I guess I need to spend more
> time looking at all your web sites.
Yes, but use them to get ideas, not to reject working on your own
creations!!! There are SO MANY different kinds of container articulateds
in the prototype that we modelers have bareley scratched the surface.
Keep building. No one has done a good skeleton car yet. (holds one
container or trailer, has a single axle and an articulation point. The
end car has a conventional truck with two axles... units of 5 or 10)
See also the PNLTC site, there are some container cars there.
What would be cool would be a talgo model. See the January (??) trains.
Think metroliner engine, single cab, at each end... and a bunch of cars
that are way lower (4559 height) in the middle. Each car has a single
steerable pair of wheels NOT sharing a common axle so they can rotate at
different speeds at one end. These are in service in the Pacific
Northwest. Amtrak has 3 trainsets, the State of Washington has one, all
painted the same. Testing at Pueblo, these babies hit 125 MPH with no
sway. They tilt into the curves using a fully passive tilt system.
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> Sorry for overlooking/forgetting some of the things that have been done out
> there!
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> Chris
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> David Zonker Harris wrote:
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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.
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> > http://baylug.org/zonker/ZContCar.html
> >
> > -Z-
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