QUOTE: Originally posted by Peterson6868 I was hoping for higher speed passenger trains when going around curves with out have to bank the curves.
Never too old to have a happy childhood!
QUOTE: Originally posted by Paul Milenkovic futuremodal: How does that Southern 100 work -- are the axles guided in any way or do they self-steer within those 1-axle trucks using the wheel tread cone angle? Did anything ever become of it (it dates from 1965) or did they decide it was not worth the bother?
Quentin
QUOTE: Originally posted by Modelcar ...Steering abilities of solid axle / wheels {with tapered running surface wheels}....must trump any exercise to allow wheels to freely rotate on the axles because of involved design, expense and maintenance necessary to do so. Railroad trackage and it's gentle curvature must not be too severe for the solid axle / wheel arrangement.
If GM "killed the electric car", what am I doing standing next to an EV-1, a half a block from the WSOR tracks?
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