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Comment by masklinn

19 hours ago

> would you still use steel wheel in steel rail unless you had some sort of cable to work with?

A rack rail is also an option, though tends towards the noisy and slow.

But yeah usually light rail keeps under 5%, and can’t really go above 10 on pure adhesion.

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