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Re: high speed railways and strange flat bed cars
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lugnet.trains
Date: 
Mon, 22 Mar 1999 19:24:18 GMT
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I would build it like this:
- connect the one-axle 'bogies' by a long beam
- make one bogie being fixed to the beam, make the other pivot horizontally
by a small turntable
(This means with tight LEGO curves, the cars can't be too long)
- chain multiple beams & bogies like this into a train
- build a standing fixture on each bogie

How about: on each bogie but the first/last, have 2 vertical axles, one
for each car; each with a 24t gear (the 2 of which are meshing).
Mount the 2 cars using that bogie (or their pendulum bases, rather) on
these 2 axles, and the bogie will always be at the midpoint of their
relative angle. That's still not perfectly in line with the track
at all times, but closer than being locked to one car.

  |   |         | axles for cars to sit on
-ggg-GGG-       g, G the 2 gears
  =====         - the gears' teeth
   ooo          = top of bogie where axles stick into; needs
  ooooo           to be repeated above gears
   ooo          o side of one of the track wheels.


- hang a cab down between each two fixtures, so it can sway aside
- the bottom of each cab hangs over the center beam, thus restricting the
maximum sway.

Eric



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  Re: high speed railways and strange flat bed cars
 
Christopher Masi wrote in message <36F65C5C.414FB274@c...ne.edu>... (...) act (...) swing (...) go (...) The main difference: with leaning inward, the lean angle has to be mechanically induced by turning the bogies, while in the pendulum structure, (...) (25 years ago, 22-Mar-99, to lugnet.trains)

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