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anyone know if this was an intentional part of wheel/rail design from the start... or they originally intended it to work how we naïvely imagine and by accident
by anentropic 12y ago
anyone know if this was an intentional part of wheel/rail design from the start... or they originally intended it to work how we naïvely imagine and by accident it worked this way and was subsequently refined ?
- bontaq 12y agoI don't know much about it, but in looking at some of the first locomotives I saw this: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e2/Richard_Trevithick_1804_Pen_y_Darren_locomotive_(6636003439).jpg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e2/Richard_... and this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Trevithick#/media/File:TrevithicksEngine.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Trevithick#/media/File... That was probably a terrible screeching thing to witness going around bends, just being held in line by the inner lip of the rail.