Society General Meeting

Talk – Locomotive Wheel  Balancing Little and Large

by Bob Bramson

Balancing locomotive wheels is a discipline that is virtually unknown about in model engineering circles. The talk will review the prime causes of imbalance and explain the technique developed to mitigate the force inputs to acceptable levels in full size, and the read-over to miniature practice. A short discourse is also included to illustrate the causes of derailment, another area of railway engineering of which model engineers generally have very limited understanding.