GM Aerotrain

rookbartley989 said:
V4 bogie and chassis complete, I think we have a winner! I'm ready to start adding lights and designing chassis for the coaches. I'm thinking I may go single axel on all the coaches except the observation car, V4 bogie in the rear since it will be the end.

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Clever rear bogie solution - gotta be creative for tight radius curves :nod:
 
For your single wheel in the coaches you may need to think about a centering system on this similar to how LGb achieve it with their couplings between vehicles, problems may arise on points with wheels at odd angles when running across point frogs.
 
Ok...so my brain told me "why not set the wheels up like casters!". Seemed to be a good idea, it was not lol. What I did do after that failed was crank the pivot shafts down and make them fixed wheels. This actually works fine so I will just design some fixed single holders and then start the couplers. I figured I'd just modify some Super Chief couplers. The video is fixed single axels on Big Hauler garbage track.

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