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Old Posted Aug 15, 2017, 8:36 AM
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Originally Posted by brian_b View Post
Banking is only needed if centrifugal forces are very high. Train wheel design is pretty clever and deals with it naturally:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ku8BOBwD4hc
Then what is responsible for "slow zones" for CTA trains? I'm just trying to figure out what they do to speed up transit in Chicago, because that needs to happen.
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