Heading into Shop Drawings and Fabrication

This week, we got the go-ahead from the guideway team to continue with our current designs. There were concerns that the loss of the wooden guideway would result in major changes to the guideway dimensions, and therefore the bogies. Thankfully, the guideway team has figured out how to utilize the old steel guideway with very similar dimensions to their designs. This means we can go ahead with our shop drawings and beginning ordering materials and fabrication.

In addition, we have spoken with other teams to clarify our bogie designs and where their components will be integrated. The wayside power team will be designing an enclosure for their capacitors to be mounted to the slave bogie. We worked with the controls team to spec a set of linear actuators for our route selection assembly. The braking and steering team now has full control of the slave bogie to make their modifications.

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