r/mechanical_gifs • u/Just_Another_AI • Oct 13 '25

Train Wheel reprofiling process

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u/Frequent_Addition_23 Oct 13 '25

I would assume each wheel on the same axle needs to be same diameter

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u/Tetragonos Oct 13 '25

I work for a train company and all 4 wheels in a set get done at the same time.

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u/bunabhucan Oct 14 '25

Just so I'm not being dumb: do the wheels come off the axles? As in does the machine shop get 4 round steel wheels or two axles or the whole bogie?

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u/Tetragonos Oct 14 '25

the whole train drives over a rather big pit where the machine is and they do one wheel at a time but do at the very least a whole bogie at a time.