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- From: urf@icl.se (Urban F)
- Subject: Pantograph pickup width Swiss 460
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- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 17:20:40 GMT
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- I read in mbz 5/92 that Roco's HO model of the new Swiss class
- 460 engines has a pantograph with a pickup only half the width
- (+- 3mm instead of +- 6mm) of what the NEM standard says.
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- Presumably this corresponds with a similar decrease on the
- prototype. How has this been accomplished? Has catenaries been
- restrung since an "old times" and if so only on some lines,
- or what? (Modelers get an adapter to make the pickup wider.)
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- Urban Fredriksson urf@icl.se
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