Ezekiel's Wheel

Abstract

A railroad right of way is constructed of rails which have a top surface upon which the railroad car's wheels ride that undulates up and down. The plurality of wheels along the length of the rail car only bear the weight of the rail car when they happen to be the wheels that are momentarily positioned above the descending portions of the undulating track. A mechanical device attached separately to each wheel are employed to alternatively raise some of the wheels while simultaneously lowering others depending on each wheel's position over the undulations in the track at any one time. Undulations can change in frequency and height and position to those undulations in parallel rails forming the same right of way. Monorail right of ways are also practical using this undulating rail design concept. One type of mechanical devices of presenting a plurality of wheels to the undulating rails is a large wheel which displays a multiple number of independently operating, smaller wheels around its circumference which smaller wheels contact the surface separately in sequence as the large wheel turns.

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