Paging Otto, Trackwork Connoisseur!

[CWA13000]

Hi, Otto, what do you think about this trackwork?



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Wild Willy the Wacko

[CWA13000]

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Cass, West Virginia, USA, of course

Wild Willy the Wacko

[atsf37l]

Slip rail joints on the switchbacks. Haven't seen that since Westside! Any hill that is stiff enough to cause the rail to move downhill as you battle upward indeed has the right to call itself a HILL! :)

[NSFAN]

Cass!! I knew that's what it was before even seeing the locomotives. That is a real fun ride!!

[zayphod]

>http://forums.flightsim.com/vbts/up1/123856.jpg


That looks.....odd. What is the purpose?
Looks like a switch that started to grow
out of the track but never quite made it.


Zayphod
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[Drewster]

thats quite a lot of Split derails

http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a236/Drewster327/UP1996/spsigsmall.jpg

Dont bother Asking, they cant be released

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[CWA13000]

"That looks.....odd. What is the purpose?
>Looks like a switch that started to grow
>out of the track but never quite made it."


I rode back down on the last car next to the brakeman and I asked him what they were and like Herb Kelsey, he called them " slip rail joints ".

The brakeman also said that their purpose was to allow for the expansion of the rail due to " sun heat ". He claimed that the joints were not always there and it resulted in bent rails but now the rail just slides past the other and then back when it contracts. He said that a lot of people ask if it is a re-railer system but that is not the case.

Wild Willy the Wacko

[zayphod]

>
>"That looks.....odd. What is the purpose?
>>Looks like a switch that started to grow
>>out of the track but never quite made it."
>
>
>I rode back down on the last car next to the brakeman and I
>asked him what they were and like Herb Kelsey, he called them
>" slip rail joints ".
>
>The brakeman also said that their purpose was to allow for the
>expansion of the rail due to " sun heat ". He
>claimed that the joints were not always there and it resulted
>in bent rails but now the rail just slides past the other and
>then back when it contracts. He said that a lot of people ask
>if it is a re-railer system but that is not the case.
>
>Wild Willy the Wacko


I learn something new every day. Thanks. :)




Zayphod
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and if you expect to survive, you've
got to know where your towel is at
all times."
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