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Re: (erielack) The "ah-ha!" moment
Very true Paul but remember, the prototypes had much deeper pockets to deal
with the derailments. Also, they didn't much care if a wrecked freight car
was replaced by the exact same model like us hobbyists. That aside, check
out the "Modeling decrepit spurs" article here:
http://issuu.com/mr-hobbyist/docs/mrh-2010-jul-aug-ol?viewMode=presentation&mode=embed
Some pretty neat ideas there, and like you, they expect to have a bit of
trouble anyhow, just like the real railroads. Not too much to take the fun
out of it though! Thanks for the detailed aerial shot too. Very informative.
Todd K. Stearns
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From: "Tupaczewski, Paul R (Paul)" <paul.tupaczewski_@_alcatel-lucent.com>
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Sent: Tuesday, July 19, 2011 11:19 AM
Subject: RE: (erielack) The "ah-ha!" moment
> That's one of the reasons I pulled up the aerial of the "New Loop" -
> there's a nice big S-curve coming off the Boonton Line and heading south.
> And it looks like the tangent in the middle of the S-curve is a little
> longer than your standard 89' piggyback flat.
>
> Replicating this in model form will be fun. In HO scale, I'll probably end
> up using a 24" curve for the loop. Yes, I can hear all the prototype
> modelers scraming at me - but the prototype crawled through this curve at
> 5 MPH and - as Bill Sheppard pointed out - had plenty of derailments and
> stringlining events - so really, if I have incidents running on my layout,
> it would be a perfect representation of the prototype!
>
> That's another thing that's a bit odd - modelers try to perfect their
> trackwork so they never have derailments. Of course, that doesn't quite
> match up with the prototype - crappy track, plenty of derailments.
>
> So I'm not going to sweat that. :)
>
> - Paul
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