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- From: brennan@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Joseph Brennan)
- Subject: Re: historical question
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.190431.10121@news.columbia.edu>
- Keywords: stainless cars
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- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 19:04:31 GMT
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- In article <u0ZqXB1w165w@1776.COM> bob@1776.COM (Robert Coe) writes:
- >> the "Budd-Michelin" railcars, which had stainless bodies and rubber tires
- >What sort of roadbed were these rubber-tired vehicles intended to run on?
- >If rails, what was supposed to keep them on the rails?
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- They had flanges, so they ran on regular track, but the main part of
- the wheel that takes weight had rubber tire. Trains like this ran on
- main lines in France once. Perhaps one of our European readers knows
- more, and I have changed distribution to world so they'll see this.
- I do not know whether these are pneumatic or solid rubber.
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- Joe Brennan Columbia University in the City of New York
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