Talk:Gauge Change Train

Freight?
What about freight/goods/merchandise wagons and locomotives? Tabletop (talk) 09:16, 28 March 2009 (UTC)

Conflicting dates
The article says "From April 2001, the train was shipped to the Transportation Technology Center in Pueblo, Colorado, U.S.A. for an extended period of high-speed endurance running until January 2001" which seems to go against the arrow of time.--SilasW (talk) 07:27, 20 August 2009 (UTC)


 * Thanks for spotting that. It was a typo (should have been 1999, not 2001), which I have now corrected. --DAJF (talk) 08:06, 20 August 2009 (UTC)

Move to Free Gauge Train?
Should this be moved to Free Gauge Train, since that seems to be the primary name these days? Jpatokal (talk) 00:46, 25 February 2013 (UTC)


 * I wondered about this when I first created the article. My view was (and still is) that while the train is widely referred to in Japan as the "フリーゲージトレイン" (i.e. "Free Gauge Train"), knowledgeable English-language news reports and the official details published by the RTRI tend to refer to it as the "Gauge Change Train". Its official classification is also "GCT". These were the reasons why I chose the "Gauge Change Train" name. --DAJF (talk) 01:59, 25 February 2013 (UTC)


 * Sure, but Googlefight now gets around twice as many hits for FGT than for CGT, and we're using FGT elsewhere in Wikipedia.  So it's starting to look like common use trumps official.
 * Also, ja:軌間可変電車 says GCT is actually short Gauge Changeable Train or Gauge Convertible Train, and that FGT is the correct name of the Japanese variant, which is this article's topic. Jpatokal (talk) 00:51, 26 February 2013 (UTC)


 * I wasn't aware of that Googlefight site, but how does it come up with those figures? When I do a regular Google search for "Gauge Change Train" (enclosed in quotes), I get 35,600 hits, whereas "Free Gauge Train" gets 19,900, which suggests that "Gauge Change Train" qualifies as the common name as well as the official name. Anyway, as this article has tended to rely overly on Japanese language sources up until now, I have added a couple more English language references in the "Further reading" section, which hopefully demonstrate common usage. --DAJF (talk) 03:52, 26 February 2013 (UTC)


 * I think Googlefight doesn't quote, but then again, your search doesn't exclude Wikipedia-derived content. But let's leave it at GCT for now and revisit the situation in a few years. Jpatokal (talk) 02:46, 27 February 2013 (UTC)


 * IMHO, Gauge Change Train is more meaningful than Free Gauge Train.   Tabletop (talk) 10:05, 27 March 2014 (UTC)

Three gauges at once?
A gauge change train (GCT) has moveable wheels that are against one "crimp" for one gauge and the opposite "crimp" for the other gauge.

Can this system work for 3 gauges at the same time, where the wheel is not held against a middle "crimp" for the middle gauge?

With the proposed Bering Strait Tunnel, three gauges might be desirable, namely:
 * 1067mm (Japan)
 * 1435mm (Japan HS, Korea, Canada and US)
 * 1520mm (Former Soviet countries).   Tabletop (talk) 09:21, 14 October 2014 (UTC)

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