Re: [VIC] Wooden cars at high speed (was: [VIC] Parallel run)

[Rob Kearey <robk@powerup.com.au>]

David Bromage wrote:

> Brown Family (pcc@ocean.com.au) won a Nobel Prize for literature by writing:

> > C'mon David, with due respect mate. No rail bogie, this side of a
> > logging tramway, has ever been designed to allow wheels to leave and
> > rejoin the track.

> You should watch them over rough joints some time.

You're confusing cause and effect. Three-axle bogies exist only for
greater comfort for the passenger, and to reduce the axle-load, thus
making them easier on lighter rail.

It beggars belief that any bogie could be designed so as to allow wheels
to leave and rejoin the track. It might be a useful benefit on crappy
rail, but never a design philosophy!

Crivens, where do you come with this stuff, David?

> David

Rob K