Other Methods of Handling Multiple Gauges
Other methods of handling multiple gauges include:
- Transporter wagons or transporter trucks, which carry equipment of one gauge on the other's tracks. This can be also done by the trainload. Bridges and tunnels need to be about one metre higher than they would otherwise be.
- Bogie exchange systems, where the railroad car is lifted and the trucks/bogies under it are swapped. This system is not suitable for four-wheel wagons.
- Adjustable gauge equipment (variable gauge axles), in which the wheel gauge can be widened or narrowed.
- Transshipment, where containers or people are transferred from one set of railroad cars to another.
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