"Cé hé sin" (michael-m-mouse)
12/03/2016 at 16:59 • Filed to: Class 2600, DMU, Trainlopnik
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"Cé hé sin" (michael-m-mouse)
12/03/2016 at 16:59 • Filed to: Class 2600, DMU, Trainlopnik | 6
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This is an off road vehicle.
Trains, even little ones, are off road vehicles.
This particular one is a Class 2600, made by the Tokyu Car Corporation between 1993 and 1994. It’s a diesel multiple unit or DMU which means that engines are distributed along the train rather than being found in a separate locomotive. And that it’s diesel.
Performance: VMax is just 110 kmh or 70 mph which isn’t a lot but given that it runs on commuter routes with stops every few minutes is adequate. It’s got 700 bhp to push 42 tonnes so acceleration is leisurely and step off from rest is so smooth you wouldn’t notice unless you looked out. Somewhat surprisingly to your correspondent you can (just) hear two gearchanges. Trains that change gear? Yes indeed. It has a hydrodynamic gearbox which uses a torque converter for first gear and a fluid coupling for each of the other gears. To change gear one coupling is drained of fluid and the next one up or down filled. You hear the revs decreasing for a couple of seconds and then increasing again but it’s perfectly smooth.
Ease of driving:
It’s very easy indeed because you don’t. Buy your ticket and you’re paying a driver to do the work for you. All he has to do is go faster, go slower, open doors and close doors so it’s fairly easy for him too.
Toys: The doors are opened and closed for you by the driver, otherwise not a lot. Basic cloth seats, windows don’t open, no entertainment options unless you include any announcements from the driver.
Roadholding: As if it’s on rails (sorry!)
Comfort: Reasonably good. Low noise levels, good ride as you rarely find potholes on rails. Does rattle around a bit when passing over points.
3/10
would be driven in again (taking into account parking charges in the station it’s probably cheaper to drive).
Bman76 (hates WS6 hoods, is on his phone and has 4 burners now)
> Cé hé sin
12/03/2016 at 17:13 |
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It’s no D Class 471, but it’ll do, lol.
Out, but with a W - has found the answer
> Cé hé sin
12/03/2016 at 17:19 |
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~500 kW for 42 tonnes is actually quite reasonable as far as trains go.
We’ve got these diesel-hydraulics running around here:
970 kW for 95 tonnes.
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Cé hé sin
> Out, but with a W - has found the answer
12/03/2016 at 17:31 |
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That one must have doors on one side only which is unusual.
ADabOfOppo; Gone Plaid (Instructables Can Be Confusable)
> Cé hé sin
12/03/2016 at 17:32 |
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Why do they call it a railroad then?
Is it not a road made from rails on which that drives?
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Cé hé sin
> ADabOfOppo; Gone Plaid (Instructables Can Be Confusable)
12/03/2016 at 17:33 |
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We don’t!
We call it a railway.
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Out, but with a W - has found the answer
> Cé hé sin
12/03/2016 at 17:39 |
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Not sure what you mean with ‘on one side only’? Left and right side are identical.
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Cé hé sin
> Out, but with a W - has found the answer
12/03/2016 at 17:42 |
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Your one has only one small red door per unit which seems to be for the driver. Our one has three doors per side per unit - a smaller one for the driver and two for the passengers. You’d be a long time getting a full load of passengers in and out of just one narrow door.
Edit: your train has a pair of double doors in the middle which seem to be shared with both units.
Cherry_man1
> Cé hé sin
12/03/2016 at 17:46 |
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4,690 kW for 566,990 kg
602.18 kNof torque.
Currently under restoration for passenger service.
4000 Class Alco
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Out, but with a W - has found the answer
> Cé hé sin
12/03/2016 at 17:50 |
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Ah, I see. All red doors are passenger doors, the driver’s cabin is entered from within the train.
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ADabOfOppo; Gone Plaid (Instructables Can Be Confusable)
> Cé hé sin
12/03/2016 at 19:15 |
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Way is another term for road. The Romans even used it to mean the same thing: The Great Appian Way is a road.