Notes below
Peri
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From: "Lawrence Winiarski" <lawrence_winiar...@yahoo.com>
To: "Electric Vehicle Discussion List" <ev@lists.evdl.org>
Cc: "Peri Hartman" <pe...@kotatko.com>
Sent: 18-Nov-24 02:01:15
Subject: Re: [EVDL] Hydrogen trains
First make a trailer capable of doing something like this
autonomously..especially with camera's pointing down.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXb32DCeOj0
Peri: Actually, plain old carwash technology is sufficient. Use lateral
rollers and a funnel shaped guide to align the train wheels.
Then you want another way of jockeying the trailer round to the
parking lot. Again I'd think just some drop down steerable rubber
wheels that drop down in the front of the trailer and can steer it
round
at very low speeds to get to a very very nearby parking lot.
Peri: That's a good idea. Then you don't get congestion on the side
track - everything is assembled or disassembled quickly. Or you could
simply have a bunch of spur tracks, like what used to go to wharfs on
the waterfront. That's a lot of infrastructure, but it might be simpler
than equipping every trailer with steerable wheels.
Make it so a standard regular tractor trailer could just hitch up and
go...electric or not electric. Once it's parked and the undercarriage
lifted, it's just a standard trailer
Peri: You could still have a locomotive, but then the trailers would
have to have some sort of coupling mechanism and probably be stronger.
I think the possibilities, here, are fantastic. Any pundits ? How could
something like this actually happen ?
On Sunday, November 17, 2024 at 12:41:02 PM PST, Peri Hartman via EV
<ev@lists.evdl.org> wrote:
That's pretty much like what I suggest some time (years ?) ago.
Design trucks and trailers with hydraulic drop-down rail "trucks"
(wheel
sets). Or just the trailers, perhaps.
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