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Re: New pics from LEGOLAND
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lugnet.general, lugnet.trains
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Wed, 9 Dec 1998 16:17:58 GMT
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Steve Bliss wrote:
> A) What's a rack railway?
Well, duh. It's a railway with a rack. Seriously. :-)
More detail... these are sometimes also called "cog" railways. They are
so called because in addition to the two weight bearing rails there is a
central rack (linear toothed) that a powered cog on the power car
engages. When the limits of adhesion are reached during the ascent
(typically around 5% grade or so) the cog engages the rack and the cog
powers the ascent. Similarly on descent, the cog takes the primary
braking load
> B) What're the details on the one in Houghton? Did they run it up the
> side of the MEEM? Nah, then the ROTC's wouldn't have anything to
> rappel...
It's actually in Hancock, and it goes from the top of Quincy Hill down
towards the Portage. It terminates several hundred feet lower (but not
all the way down) at the lateral opening to the mine that the mining
students use. I rode it as part of a mine tour.
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| (...) :p (...) OK, 'cog railway' is a term I know. Thanks for straightening me out. Seems like someone has done this in LEGO. Maybe if I followed trains more closely, I'd remember who. (...) Cool. Sounds like a "the yesterday that never was" sort of (...) (25 years ago, 9-Dec-98, to lugnet.general, lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: New pics from LEGOLAND
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| (...) A) What's a rack railway? B) What're the details on the one in Houghton? Did they run it up the side of the MEEM? Nah, then the ROTC's wouldn't have anything to rappel... Steve (25 years ago, 9-Dec-98, to lugnet.general, lugnet.trains)
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