Talk:Road–rail vehicle
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April 2008 edit
Article Split edit
“Hy-rail” should be a seprate article. “Hy-Rail” itself is a trademarked name of a company (I can’t remember which one) which produces the components, and either way they are the devices that amek the vehicles work, not the vehicle itself; There is more than one way (type of equipment) that allow vehicles to work on both rails and roads. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.102.19.148 (talk) 06:37, 16 February 2009 (UTC)
gallery creation edit
Agricultural tires for driving on rails? edit
Has anyone ever seen large agricultural (tractor) tires designed to run on railroad tracks? They recently cleared the tracks near here, and from what I can tell, they used a front-end loader or tractor, riding on rubber tires, only the tires had grooves in the middle sized to ride directly on the tracks. There was no flanged wheels, because the snow in between would show if flanged wheels had been used on them. Also, there were spots where the tracks cross roads and paths, and in those places, the machine let the tracks and drove around plowing around the area. The tracks it left looked like normal ag tires, only you could see the groove in the middle (similar to the effect when a truck with dual wheels drives in the snow, it leaves a raised ridge in the space between the tires). They were too large to be for a normal pickup-sized truck. The only other thing it could have been is rubber tracks of some sort, but whatever it was, it was designed to fit directly onto a standard gauge railroad track. I've googled everything I can think of, and haven't got anything. I know that's not technically a "road" vehicle, but it's designed to run on or off tracks. .45Colt 22:58, 5 January 2014 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by .45Colt (talk • contribs)
Technical terms edit
"Engineering possession?" Someone please translate/change/explain this for people who don't work in the industry. Mazeau (talk) 03:21, 18 March 2014 (UTC)