QUOTE: Originally posted by cacole Steerable trucks are on some of the newer high-horsepower diesel road engines to help guide them around curves and prevent derailments. With a 6,000 horsepower engine pulling a heavy load uphill, the front wheels in both trucks tend to be lifted off of the rail due to the torque being exerted by the traction motors, and this can cause a derailment on curves.
Modeling BNSF and Milwaukee Road in SW Wisconsin
QUOTE: Well, a slug is a particularly ugly diseasal.
QUOTE: B-unit unmanned & deformed
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Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!