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Post by torquewrench on May 30, 2012 5:20:07 GMT
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metman
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Post by metman on May 30, 2012 6:25:28 GMT
Is it a car? Is it a train? It looks fantastic. Now to find someone to pay for all the catentary to be put up!
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neilw
now that's what I call a garden railway
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Post by neilw on May 30, 2012 7:00:06 GMT
the trolleybus is back!
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Post by siriami on May 30, 2012 8:56:58 GMT
a trolleylorry!
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Post by phillw48 on May 30, 2012 17:03:44 GMT
They use a similar system for dump trucks in South Africa.
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Post by grahamhewett on May 30, 2012 18:37:58 GMT
Been done before... If I could discover how to post pix on this forum, I'd attach a nice pic (1) of the Veischedetalbahn showing their "loco" pulling a rake of road wagons and (2) a very large Soviet dump truck, also trolleypowered, as used in mining. The Veischedetalbahn opened before the first world war and was in reality not a bahn at all (shades of the late lamented Teesside Railless Traction Board) but a trolley tug pulling road wagons - they had a good selection of vans, open wagons etc. Hamburg Harbour authority also operated a similar trolley tug to pull otherwise horsedrawn wagons up the hill out of the docks. And there were plenty of trolley lorries in the Soviet Union - some still about in Moscow as service vehicles. (Bradford also had a trolley lorry and a trolley van as part of the 1911 fleet; it seems they used the trolley van for parcels deliveries using a skate whenever they had to run over the tram network).
Presumably Siemens have just dusted off some old plans?
Graham H
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