Experiments with models have enabled design criteria to be established for 125 mph passenger stock; model of plain box car body without trucks was placed in wind tunnel in such way that gaps between bodies of adjacent model cars were fully lined, and air resistance of 159 kg was measured for one car at 125 mph wind speed; space between car ends and shape of vestibule shrouds has serious effect on air resistance of whole train; model measurements showed that tangential load rises strongly as side-wind increases.
Air resistance of fast passenger trains
Ry Gaz
Railway Gazette ; 123 , n 18
1967
2 pages
Article (Journal)
English
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