Fingers got away from me again. I wrote:
>The reason real railroads have eliminated the coned tread of locomotives is
traction. The
> contact{ are} AREA is greater when the wheel is contacting the rail across
the
> whole tread, where as the cone wheel has a very tiny contact area, which
> gives you a MUCH better chance to slip! For me....I'll take all the
traction
> I can get on my models.I wrote ARE, when I meant AREA in the above passage. Keith _______________________________________________ SSLiveSteam mailing list Send messages: [email protected] Cancel subscription: http://postfix.45mm.com/mailman/listinfo/sslivesteam Rules: http://www.45mm.com/sslivesteam_guide.html
