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

["malcolm's" <kmalcolm@tpg.com.au>]

Please tell me you are kidding. That is almost as good as bogies being
designed with 6 wheels to ensure at least 4 wheels remain on the rails on
rough track.
-- 
Dave Malcolm

David Bromage <dbromage@fang.omni.com.au> wrote in article
<N6dL4.599$TI6.629982@news0.optus.net.au>...
> Stuart Thyer (s.thyer@anatomy.unimelb.edu.au) won a Nobel Prize for
literature by writing:
> > I still believe the cars would have flexed as new, not as much as now,
but
> > there has to be give in virtually any structure of its size, even
motorbikes
> > frames flex, even a skyscraper flexes.
> 
> Part of the flexing is caused by torsional (twisting) forces from the
auto
> couplers. The original frame was only designed to take tension forces
> between the screw couplers. 
> Cheers
> David
>