Lightweight design with two engines and mechanical drive to wheels and rack gears have been completed by Waggonfabrick Uerdingen for steeply graded sections of German Federal Railway (DB); body is separately supported on under frame through four air springs, and axlebox suspension is of Megi bonded rubber type, in which rubber takes up traction, braking and lateral thrusts as well as normal vertical movements; underframe is single welded structure, shorter than body, carrying all power and auxiliary machinery.


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    Titel :

    Diesel railbuses for rack railways


    Weitere Titelangaben:

    Ry Gaz


    Erschienen in:

    Railway Gazette ; 121 , n 18


    Erscheinungsdatum :

    1965


    Format / Umfang :

    2 pages


    Medientyp :

    Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)


    Format :

    Print


    Sprache :

    Englisch


    Schlagwörter :


    Rack railways

    Maffezzoli, Alfonso | Engineering Index Backfile | 1913


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    Wernekke | Engineering Index Backfile | 1923


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    Engineering Index Backfile | 1896


    Swiss rack railways

    Engineering Index Backfile | 1898


    Pike's Peak rack railways

    Spies, Albert | Engineering Index Backfile | 1894