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Wheel Spin African style.


Trainshed Terry

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Just had this punched through from a friend of mine?

 

 

I have heard that wheel spin can damage rails, but I never seen any thing like this before.:icon_wow: :icon_wow: :icon_wow: :icon_wow:

 

 

 

Unless ??¦??¦.. Over to you lot........ I wonder how the driver explained what happined.

 

 

 

 

Look out there a hole in the track :icon_redface: :icon_frustrated: :icon_redface: :icon_eek:

 

 

 

 

Terry.

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I have tryed the link and it works

 

But for those who can not open the link.

 

Take Two

 

http://mail.google.c....1&disp=attd&zw

 

The second link should open as a power point production ( Other wise I am stumped ) :blink: :blink:

 

Terry

 

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and is a taster.

 

 

Please work

 

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Well now you've whetted my appetite as I have a side interest in African steam

 

Is it a video? If so is it an attachment to the e-mail you got, or a link to a video on Youtube or another site? If the former I'm not sure if there's an easy solution as I don't think videos can be uploaded on here (only linked to). If the latter maybe you could tell us the website address?

 

If it's a photo you could download it from your e-mail to your desktop, and then attach it here using the "click to attach fiels" button.

 

Edit: Ok it's a Powerpoint Pres. Then it's a bit involved. You'd need to save the PP to your desktop, open it in your PP programme, and then cut out the photos or video or whatever and do as proposed above...

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Amazing. Melted like candle wax.

 

I can see this becoming a sport for railway enthusiasts, you know like the kids who do it with cars on a saturday night. Mind you, would be a slightly expensive hobby smile.gif

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It is South African Railways/Spoornet style wheel spin. I also wondered how apparently only one wheel set could be spinning. It may be that the loco was defective (I am not sure of the class, but they are well-aged locos). I think the drive is through motors to each axle, so it is possible that the drive to this axle could be running (on a defective unit), and the rest stopped, and braked.

 

The sequence may also be quite old - others could no doubt give a date for the orange livery, and the "OFS" suffix to the the loco number suggests "Orange Free State" - presumably a loco based in Bloemfontein. The Orange Free State province became the "Free State" after 1994, but the change in name may have taken a while to drift through the railway structure.

 

The driver would probably not need to be deaf not to hear what was going on - the unit is the second in the consist, and equipment noise in these locos is quite significant, even at standstill, so what one might have thought to be a loud noise as the wheel cut through the rail may not have been apparent at the front end.

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Incredible , but why has it only affected one set of wheels? I would have thought if the loco was stationary with wheels spinning then there would be similar damage under each wheel set.

 

In the "all wheel drive" land of Hornby maybe Inmp....... Individual traction motors, a lack of grip on that wheelset, and no/busted traction control (a lot of assumptions there)! however I do wonder just how genuine the photo's are..... I don't know for sure but Photoshop's a wonderful thing and there's very little damage on that wheelset for all the heat that was supposedly generated.

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Not quite as bad as the African incident, but neither Network Rail or the owners of D1015 must have been too pleased:

 

 

:icon_frustrated: :icon_frustrated: :icon_frustrated: Why did the driver see the little lamp that was brightly lit and close the power controller.:icon_what: :icon_what: :icon_what:

 

Could the reason that it was wheel slipping was that it was running on one engine. :P :P :P

 

Terry

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