shortliner Posted January 12, 2011 Share Posted January 12, 2011 ......but I woldn't fancy either riding a train down this piece of track, or even taking one there! http://www.flickr.com/photos/railohio/5341898300/ Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold beast66606 Posted January 12, 2011 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 12, 2011 Prototype excuseinspiration for our new layout Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Kris Posted January 12, 2011 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 12, 2011 Yuk, Dead slow I feel as it makes my track laying look to be an example of perfection. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
trisonic Posted January 12, 2011 Share Posted January 12, 2011 Mike on YMR laid some track like that - it worked too............. Best, Pete. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heruss Posted January 12, 2011 Share Posted January 12, 2011 All I can say is FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFlippin 'eck that track looks rough. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
eastwestdivide Posted January 12, 2011 Share Posted January 12, 2011 Anyone else think the phrase "chewed string" fits the bill? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Trainshed Terry Posted January 12, 2011 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 12, 2011 Rocking rolling riding song comes to mind. :lol: Terry Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heruss Posted January 12, 2011 Share Posted January 12, 2011 Anyone else think the phrase "chewed string" fits the bill? "Out here son this railroad don't work on no shoe string budget, no siree, we're more classy and use only the finest dawg chewed string fer our budget!" EDIT: - Check out 1:46 onwards, I don't think the lens is distorting anything out there... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Dagworth Posted January 12, 2011 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 12, 2011 There is a loco sat at Newport docks at the moment that would fit the track in the OP link perfectly Andi Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
F-UnitMad Posted January 13, 2011 Share Posted January 13, 2011 That Carolina Shortlines You-Tube clip is a famous one. Not quite as bad as the track linked to in the OP, but I've been trying to lay some "Dark Side Style" track on my latest layout... B) It's a bit hard to photograph, though. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Talltim Posted January 13, 2011 Share Posted January 13, 2011 http://photos.nerail.org/showpic/?photo=2007020923452025532.jpg http://photos.nerail.org/showpic/?photo=2007020923422025364.jpg Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
trisonic Posted January 13, 2011 Share Posted January 13, 2011 Great shots! Don't confuse shortlines with the mainlines over here which are as good as anything in Europe. When you see a mainline freight hauled by 4 or more locos at 1.4 miles long doing 70mph it really is awesome..... Best, Pete. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Poor Old Bruce Posted January 13, 2011 Share Posted January 13, 2011 ......but I woldn't fancy either riding a train down this piece of track, or even taking one there! http://www.flickr.co...hio/5341898300/ Looks like the end of the line anyway. Is that pile of firewood in the bottom corner of the picture the buffer stop? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Re6/6 Posted January 13, 2011 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 13, 2011 How about this! ......sick bags anyone? Think how much money NR could save with 'maintenance holidays'! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prof Klyzlr Posted January 14, 2011 Share Posted January 14, 2011 That Carolina Shortlines You-Tube clip is a famous one. Not quite as bad as the track linked to in the OP, but I've been trying to lay some "Dark Side Style" track on my latest layout... B) It's a bit hard to photograph, though. Dear Jordan, Yep, it can work real well in O scale... ...and O scale also has the mass to get the train dynamics looking right when operating over such kinks/bumps... Happy Modelling, Aim to Improve, Prof Klyzlr Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
F-UnitMad Posted January 14, 2011 Share Posted January 14, 2011 Dear Jordan, Yep, it can work real well in O scale... Well, I was trying to copy the Master... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heruss Posted January 14, 2011 Share Posted January 14, 2011 Yet apprentice still you are, Mmmm! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prof Klyzlr Posted January 15, 2011 Share Posted January 15, 2011 Yet apprentice still you are, Mmmm! Dear Heruss, Not totally sure who the "master" of whom Jordan speaks is, however am very much convinced and assured that Jordan is easily achieving the results he is looking for, (and knows that he can always ask if he feels he needs support), no "status" assignment required, needed, or observed amongst modelling friends... ("Fun" spans all modellers ) Happy Modelling, Aim to Improve, Prof Klyzlr jack of many scales/gauges/outlines, master of none... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
highpeak Posted January 15, 2011 Share Posted January 15, 2011 Jim Mansfield wrote an interesting piece in RMC in May 1981 looking at various kinds of track defects and what did and did not work when reproduced in miniature. I seem to recall one of his defects was a poorly supported rail joint that would give way under the weight of a car, it involved a strategically placed piece of stripwood to act as a guard rail. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sir Ray Posted January 17, 2011 Share Posted January 17, 2011 Jim Mansfield wrote an interesting piece in RMC in May 1981 looking at various kinds of track defects and what did and did not work when reproduced in miniature. I seem to recall one of his defects was a poorly supported rail joint that would give way under the weight of a car, it involved a strategically placed piece of stripwood to act as a guard rail. That has to be "Kinked Trackwork", pg 61 of the aforementioned RMC issue (which I'm afraid I have never read). I have read other articles over the years, which inidcates you can remove every third tie and respace the remainder (to mimic the lesser number of ties per length along lighter use industrial sidings) and adding shim of thin styrene strip under alternating rail lengths to mimic the wobble of freight cars of poorly maintained track (the author reported that if your freight cars are under weighed the motion looks rather wimpy), but deliberately introducing side-to-side kinks in scale track in HO/OO, let alone N, seems to be fraught w/ potential for derailments down the road. BTW, the Model Railroad Magazine index is back up, but I am afraid it only covers North American magazines - still, it's kind of neat to scan thru the magazines of years past and see what topics were then current and popular... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
highpeak Posted January 17, 2011 Share Posted January 17, 2011 Kinked Trackwork is indeed the article by Jim Mansfield. In the article he examined combinations of joints where the rails are not in exact alignment. The one he found would not work was where both rails are kinked inwards, leading to the gauge falling below minimum. He also found that with sprung trucks you could have vertical displacements of up to 10 thou. Other techniques involved pivoting rails and using strategically-placed pieces of wood or piles of spilled material glued hard to form a sort of guard rail. The article assumed the use of NMRA standards, more recent developments towards finer standards may mean that some of what Jim Mansfield suggests isn't feasible. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Boucher Posted January 23, 2011 Share Posted January 23, 2011 Here's a video of a NG steam engine in China going over similar track. It looks ungodly bad, but as he zooms out, it starts looking better and better. But, the wobble of the engine (especially at the grade crossing) is all the evidence I need that the track is really that bad... http://www.flickr.co...in/photostream/ Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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