Welded Rail

[markbin]

Hallo,
This version exists of 3 different parts, which you have to make in gmax.
1) the car ( 15 m long ) ; looks as a normal car but the attachmentpoints are placed in a different way; the coupling is done around bog1 (the second bogey )
2) rail segment of 3.2 m., made as a car
3) shorter rail segment, made as a car ,and used between the loc and the first car, and at the end of the last car.
Composing the train is as follows:
l = loc
s= short railsegment
r=railsegment
c=car
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You can make it as short or as long as you want, and if your curves are not to sharp, you can use 7 rails beside each other instead of 5 .

 

[Harry_James_Potter]

One last tidbit about rail. If lightning strikes a rail, which happens a lot, the bolt of lightning can travel along the rail for more than a mile. Trespassers have been electrocuted and killed by coming into contact with a rail that was struck by lightning several miles down the track.

hence the reason that in the railway rules, there is always something about not stepping on ANY rail.

This is also just in case an external power source (such as the OHLE or third rail) accidentally make contact somehow with one of the running rails.)

regards

Harry

 

[WileeCoyote]

In Germany lightning more often goes for the catenary which runs at 15KV 16.7Hz, 10KV for less trafficked lines like where I formerly lived. This is a big problem because you need to implement lightning suppressors in all E-lok and also at transformer stations, and you also need to build the catenary so that it can take this huge momentary overload. But most of the time the only things which do get electrocuted is the occasional bird or two on the wire.

WileeCoyote