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

Subject: Re: [VIC] Wooden cars at high speed (was: [VIC] Parallel run)
From: Rob Kearey <robk@powerup.com.au>
Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 19:10:34 +1000
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David Bromage wrote:

> > 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!

> Knowing that wheels leave the rail on rough joints, VR designed the E cars
> so that there would always be 4 wheels of each bogie on the rail at any
> given time.

Do you have a cite for this? Sounds like creative revisionism to me.

Hmmm - it sounds like you're talking about compensated bogies. Is this
so?

> David

Rob K

References:
- Headboard 2000
  - From: Michael Kurkowski <mk@netstra.com.au>
- [VIC] Parallel run (was: Headboard 2000)
  - From: James Brook <ajmbrook@ozemail.com.au>
- Re: [VIC] Parallel run (was: Headboard 2000)
  - From: Michael Kurkowski <mk@netstra.com.au>
- Re: [VIC] Parallel run (was: Headboard 2000)
  - From: Mark Bau <markbau@altavista.com>
- Re: [VIC] Parallel run (was: Headboard 2000)
  - From: James Brook <ajmbrook@ozemail.com.au>
- Re: [VIC] Parallel run (was: Headboard 2000)
  - From: dbromage@fang.omni.com.au (David Bromage)
- [VIC] Wooden cars at high speed (was: [VIC] Parallel run)
  - From: James Brook <ajmbrook@ozemail.com.au>
- Re: [VIC] Wooden cars at high speed (was: [VIC] Parallel run)
  - From: "John Wayman" <trecker@optusnet.com.au>
- Re: [VIC] Wooden cars at high speed (was: [VIC] Parallel run)
  - From: dbromage@fang.omni.com.au (David Bromage)
- Re: [VIC] Wooden cars at high speed (was: [VIC] Parallel run)
  - From: pcc@ocean.com.au (Brown Family)
- Re: [VIC] Wooden cars at high speed (was: [VIC] Parallel run)
  - From: dbromage@fang.omni.com.au (David Bromage)

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