[gurps] [VEHICLE] of the week 734 -- Mag-Lev Maintenance Car

[Troy Guffey]

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Onno Meyer wrote:
> 
> Mag-Lev Maintenance Car v1.0 (TL10)
>  Copyright 2008 by Onno Meyer
> 
>  This specialized car is used to maintain magnetic levitation rails
> on worlds with little or no atmosphere. The Maintenance Car carries
> a work party, a supply of spare parts, and a workshop for on-site
> repairs. One airlock leads to the monorail track, the other has a
> telescoping ladder to get down to the ground (where the track is
> elevated on pylons). The car is designed to return at the end of
> each shift, so there are no living quarters.
>  The mag-lev car might fit into Traveller games where contragrav is
> less effective (or more expensive) than described by GURPS
> Traveller.  
> 
> Subassemblies: Body +5.
> Powertrain: 48,000-lb. mag-lev lifter; 500-kW contact power;
>  360,000-kWs rechargeable power cell.

I think this car needs a secondary motive system as well.  Because
sometimes the problem with the Mag-Lev track will be on the opposite
side of a non-trivial section of dead track.  So add a set of
retractable wheels and powertrain, and possibly a larger rechargeable
power cell.

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