Swiss flex bogie

[NtheBasement]

The Swiss have a train that runs on two rail networks without stopping using bogies that change gauge and height.

[nkalanaga]

Meter gauge to standard gauge?  That's quite a difference for one bogie. 

[trainforfun]

Meter gauge to standard gauge?  That's quite a difference for one bogie.

It's 56.5" ( standard gauge ) less 39.37" ( metric ) = 17.13"  divide by 2 = 8.56" on each side , yes quite a difference , either the body looks very wide on metric tracks or the boggies looks very wide on standard !

A similar system already exist between France and Spain at the border , the gauge is wider in Spain , before passengers had to change train at the border , but the automatic gauge "enlarger" arrived about 15 or 20 years ago , the train don't even have to stop ! 

[nkalanaga]

If I remember right, the MOB used to move standard gauge freight wagons on narrow gauge "transporters", basically a very small wagon, with very small wheels, put one under each axle of a two-axle wagon.  If so, they could handle standard-width carriages.

[trainforfun]

If I remember right, the MOB used to move standard gauge freight wagons on narrow gauge "transporters", basically a very small wagon, with very small wheels, put one under each axle of a two-axle wagon.  If so, they could handle standard-width carriages.

You remember right , I took a couple of pictures in a small town in Switzerland of a car like that .

https://www.therailwire.net/forum/gallery/31/medium_54-221222160224.jpeg

https://www.therailwire.net/forum/gallery/31/medium_54-221222160141.jpeg

Sorry these were taken with a lousy resolution digital camera ...

[nkalanaga]

Thank you!  An interesting solution when changing trucks isn't an option. 

I'm fairly familiar with RhB freight stock, having seen much of it in the webcams, but my only knowledge of the MOB is from a 1980s VHS tape.

[MVW]

Swiss flex bogie? Sounds like a ZZ Top tune. 

Jim