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- From: romeo@niagara.Tymnet.COM (Michael Stimac)
- Newsgroups: rec.railroad
- Subject: Re: historical question
- Keywords: stainless cars
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- Date: 23 Jan 93 00:19:24 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan22.190431.10121@news.columbia.edu> brennan@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Joseph Brennan) writes:
- >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?
-
- >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.
-
- >I do not know whether these are pneumatic or solid rubber.
-
- There is a cross-section drawing of the rubber-tired wheels on the
- Pennsy railcars on page 166 of the book _Interurbans Without Wires_
- by Edmund Keilty, pub. Interurban Press PO Box 6444, Glendale CA 91205
- ISBN 0-916374-38-6.
-
- According to this drawing, there is a steel wheel with an attached
- steel flange. There is a pneumatic rubber tire with inner tube (!)
- around the wheel. Inside the rubber tire is an aluminum tire
- presumably for relief in case of a "flat".
-
- There is also a detailed plan drawing, as well as a chart of all
- the Budd-Michelin production. I suspect, but do not know, that these
- wheels with rubber tires are similar to those on the famous Paris Metro.
- The Michelin association suggest that it is so.
-
- Michael Stimac
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