Yanky Iron Fix II

Gr8 pix Grandad

Luv the ol KWopper
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cya

Spotted here in town today.

gr8 pix guys
keep m cumm n


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Din kno trains get flat tyres


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LOL
WotSezU?
cya

Yes, trains CAN get flat tyres, or more correctly, flat spots on tyres. They have a steel "tyre" pressed onto a cast wheel and can get wear from braking or, on a driven axle, from accelerating too hard! (that spins the wheels) The wheels can also crack, I can just remember when I was a kid, seeing a railway man walk alongside a train, hitting each wheels with a metal hammer on a long handle, listening for the tell-tale sound of a cracked wheel.

I like the 1957/58 Chevrolet Viking, or I think they may have had another name for such a heavy duty model. It is all blinged up with whitewalls and other things no self respecting driver would want but all in the name of advertising.

Morrie
m80
not only
butt also
they get sum potholes in the journey just to spill your coffee


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WotSezU?

cya

Morris
I Think (??) that Chevy Tractor is more like a 62 to 64???

Second shot, definitely photo shopped. Both wheels on one solid axle, only one worn out????

Those FLB pictures remind me of these 2 I've seen around.

wee-allis wrote: Second shot, definitely photo shopped. Both wheels on one solid axle, only one worn out????

no catastrophic failure of the wheel most probably due to an undetected crack in the wheel itself. For some reason railway wheels tend to fatigue crack from the inside.

They used to detect the cracks by hitting the when with a hammer and listening to the sound. a ring meant everything was ok. A dull thud meant that the effected equipment was taken off the train and sent to the nearest workshop/bogie exchange area for the bogie to be replaced and the whole bogie was sent off for reconditioning.

Now everything is privatised I am not sure it's done anymore. They probably have a method but it doesn't seem to be performed as frequently as before, I have seen some places overseas ultrasound them every service but that's not as frequent as a daily tap with a hammer. Maybe better materials technology means it doesn't need to be done as often?

Bruce, if both wheels are fixed and on the same axle and turning at the same rate, as all train wheels do, how come the wheel on the opposite side is not worn down the same? As Pauline says, "Please explain?"