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Kiva Valley Railway- Freelanced road in central Arizona. Visit the link to see my MR forum thread on The Building of the Whitton Branch on the Kiva Valley Railway
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QUOTE: Originally posted by TrainFreak409 Big_Boy_4005, do you have any other pictures that come closer to the rail wheels of those trucks? I'm kind of curious as to what the mechanism looks like compared to conventional hy-railers.[?]
QUOTE: Originally posted by Big_Boy_4005 QUOTE: Originally posted by TrainFreak409 Big_Boy_4005, do you have any other pictures that come closer to the rail wheels of those trucks? I'm kind of curious as to what the mechanism looks like compared to conventional hy-railers.[?] Scott, sorry the quality of that photo isn't better. On that style of truck the flanged wheels seem to be much larger, and mounted on a heavier hydraulics than the typical hirailer. They must have pretty good tractive effort, because I've seen them pulling gondolas loaded with ties, and hoppers loaded with ballast. About 4 cars each. Here's the one that was pulling the ballast hoppers. The other one was a CP unit, this ia a BNSF, and while the equipment mounted to the bed is different, the rail platform is is the same. If you were to model something like this, it might make a good track cleaner.[;)]
QUOTE: Originally posted by railroadyoshi Canazar, really? I didn't see them on the way from Tucson to Phoenix yesterday. But double tracking is awesome. I was amazed that the route was fluid with those traffic levels! 6 trains in 30 minutes! Wow! Thanks for your recommendations, by the way!