Lightweight design with two engines and mechanical drive to wheels and rack gears have been completed by Waggonfabrick Uerdingen for steeply graded sections of German Federal Railway (DB); body is separately supported on under frame through four air springs, and axlebox suspension is of Megi bonded rubber type, in which rubber takes up traction, braking and lateral thrusts as well as normal vertical movements; underframe is single welded structure, shorter than body, carrying all power and auxiliary machinery.


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    Title :

    Diesel railbuses for rack railways


    Additional title:

    Ry Gaz


    Published in:

    Railway Gazette ; 121 , n 18


    Publication date :

    1965


    Size :

    2 pages


    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English




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