Quentin
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QUOTE: Originally posted by Overmod Actually, I'm beginning to think that the 'right' solution might be adapting the bogies themselves so they can be run 'coupled' to each other, and then to a train or locomotive in 'typical' RoadRailer fashion, to allow balancing moves. Then increase the pool of bogies to allow some to be kept as 'protection'. (I'm using bogie here to distinguish context clearly from 'truck'... which could be either sense when referring to RoadRailer stuff indiscriminately...) I also suspect that some form of 'aftermarket' bogie conversion kit, allowing freight trucks from old boxcars to be adapted, might increase the potential bogie pool at very little capital cost. Might be possible to put some functionality on the bogies in transit (like track-data accelerometer sets) to make the 'non-revenue' balancing moves less of a waste.
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