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Posted by Joe on Wed Dec 2 12:20:08 2020, in response to New trams with fixed trucks, posted by Joe on Tue Dec 1 19:53:46 2020. I have been riding street cars since the 1940's without thinking of their axles or trucks, as almost every TARS and B&QT car was double-trucked. One variance was the maximum-traction truck on older TARS convertibles, a pair of smaller wheels on a truck, but even then I did not question the name or the physics involved.--- A principal advantage of a streetcar vs. a mainline railroad coach is that it can turn on a city intersection, with the remarkable exception of the swing-wide intersections in Pittsburgh. Apparently, Boston had problems with six-axle cars, as Type 6 Boeing and Type 8 Breda, but the Type 7 Kinki-Sharyo eight-axle articulateds stayed on the rails. --- Please correct me if I am wrong. Joe Please see Note the short wheelbase on horsecar 24. |
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