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Re: high speed railways and strange flat bed cars
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Thu, 18 Mar 1999 15:55:43 GMT
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cmasi@cmasi.chem.tulane+Spamless+.edu
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Larry Pieniazek wrote:
> What would be cool would be a talgo model. See the January (??) trains.
What do you mean by January trains? This news group in Januray? Also, where do
you get most of your information, books about real trains, books about model
trains, modeling magazines? I keep saying that I am going to get this book
The Great Book of Trains
Brian Hollingsworth & Arthur Cook
Featuring 310 locomotives shown in over 160 full-colour illustrations
and more than 500 photographs.
414 pages.
ISBN 1-85501-852-7
I found the reference here. Are you familiar with this book. With all the
illustrations it seems like it would be a good idea.
Thanks,
Chris
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> 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
So, a bit like a car...front wheels steer through the curve and rear wheel just
follow without pivoting, or do the rear wheels pivot freely.
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!
> >
> > Chris
> >
> > David Zonker Harris wrote:
> >
> > > 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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| Larry makes a great point! ("don't let the fact that someone has already tried to build a model/car keep you from trying") I was inspired to build mine after standing about 10 feet from a 9-segment spine car passed at very slow speed, with 2-high (...) (25 years ago, 18-Mar-99, to lugnet.trains)
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| (...) 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 (...) (25 years ago, 18-Mar-99, to lugnet.trains)
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