Re:Even narrower gauge Diesels - Truck Axle Spacing
| January 03, 2018 02:12AM |
Chris Walker Wrote:
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> Our 1954 English Electric DF were of the "old
> steam era thinking" 4-6+6-4 wheel arrangement aka
> 2-C+C-2 complete with boiler tube cowcatchers
> These 120 ton 1500hp beasts had uneven spaced
> axles in the C bogies.
>
> The NZR's first true 6-motor units were 1967 built
> by EE and again had uneven spacing.
>
>
> 1971 saw the first GE U-26C arrive with even
> spaced C trucks, the TM's all arranged the same
> way. Now these brutes not only pick up the train
> but can run with it as well.
>
>
> Our first GMD C-C units in '79 in typical EMD
> fashion were uneven spacing.
>
One of my favourite oddities are these South African Railways 91-000 class 2' gauge GE's.
They got over the minimal bogie frame space by hanging both traction motors between the wheelsets, you can see the end of one traction motor hanging out past the sideframes, the other did the same on the other side.
Wayne from Oz (home of the other SAR - the South Australian Railways)
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> Our 1954 English Electric DF were of the "old
> steam era thinking" 4-6+6-4 wheel arrangement aka
> 2-C+C-2 complete with boiler tube cowcatchers
> These 120 ton 1500hp beasts had uneven spaced
> axles in the C bogies.
>
> The NZR's first true 6-motor units were 1967 built
> by EE and again had uneven spacing.
>
>
> 1971 saw the first GE U-26C arrive with even
> spaced C trucks, the TM's all arranged the same
> way. Now these brutes not only pick up the train
> but can run with it as well.
>
>
> Our first GMD C-C units in '79 in typical EMD
> fashion were uneven spacing.
>
One of my favourite oddities are these South African Railways 91-000 class 2' gauge GE's.
They got over the minimal bogie frame space by hanging both traction motors between the wheelsets, you can see the end of one traction motor hanging out past the sideframes, the other did the same on the other side.
Wayne from Oz (home of the other SAR - the South Australian Railways)
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