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1. Ballasting
... topic: 1115 Ballasting posted: 29 Apr 2010 20:36 from: Bruce Wilson Gentlemen: My friend is building a version of Hemyock in OO and I am doing the same in S7. We have a question about the ballast which I hope someone here can answer. Looking at several different photos it would appear the main running line up to the platform is coarser perhaps crushed stone while the rest of the tracks look like a finer material that appears to our North American eyes to be like cinder. Does anyone know what materials may have been used? TIA Bruce Wilson Barrie, Ontario, Canada posted: 30 Apr 2010 19:59 from: Phil O Hi Bruce Gentlemen: My friend is building a version of Hemyock in OO and I am doing the same in S7. We have a question about the ballast which I hope someone here can answer. Looking at several different photos it would appear the main running line up to the platform is coarser perhaps crushed stone while the rest of the tracks look like a finer material that appears to ...
... this was a straight monster about 560 feet long but I will show some of it( the front) and the rest will be suggested to pass through the backdrop. The shed is/was about 30 feet high. So trains from left to right will emerge from the bridge and disappear behind a shed. My other reason for keeping the scale bend( about 100 chains) is the complicated trackwork in the foreground: the double-slip, the diamonds, the outside slip and the perverted scissors arrangement. These are all crushed close in reality. I'm not convinced they would survive being scrunched. I will post one of my photos taken in 1974 from the Vale Road bridge. The normal viewing/operator position would be where the road-coaches are on the right. By this date some of the trackwork has been stripped-out. Regards, Geoff posted: 28 Feb 2011 15:57 from: geoff 1870_281055_590000000.jpg Parts of Templot Club may not function unless you enable JavaScript (also called Active Scripting) in your browser. Templot Club> ...
3. Joggles
... a photograph is always tricky and to really confuse things we may actually be looking at a blend. Glen posted: 12 Mar 2013 21:11 from: alan@york It could be limestone: this does not look very different to what I have seen in quarries (eg Carboniferous limestone in the Avon Gorge). There is also an admixture of other stuff: paper, and gunk, which doesn't help. Ballast is reused, and there may be admixtures from other wagons. It is likely to be "local" crushed stone, so if you know the location, a better guess could be made. alan@york (geologist in a previous career) posted: 13 Mar 2013 09:54 from: Trevor Walling Hello, I seem to have opened a can of worms with my question.I suppose the "local" location would have a major bearing on the type of material used due to the quantities involved.I know limestone can be discolored due to iron oxide in the vicinity where the limestone is quarried as that is the case in the NW ...
... Cheers, Andy PS- It ain't half hot here. posted: 1 Aug 2017 11:37 from: Martin Wynne Andrew Barrowman wrote: it gave me the idea that spring steel keys avoid the problem of which way a wooden key should be facing. Hi Andy, Sorry to throw a fly in your ointment. (Can you throw a fly?) Check rails always have solid wooden keys even where the rest of the track has spring steel keys. The side forces which check rails must resist can be sufficient to crush the steel keys. Check rails are also vertical in order to present full face contact with the back of the wheel and prevent rapid wear -- although some old pre-group chair drawings show inclined check rails. If you decide to mould plastic check rails, you need to know that check rails often have two fish-bolt holes in one end. They are often cut from redundant running rails. This will be the first thing I check when the Peco turnouts are released. It was hot here, but not ...
... fit the chairs. Both the EMGS and the Scalefour Society can supply suitable 1mm dia. rivets, in both 2mm dia. head and 2.5mm dia. head. The plywood timbers need to be drilled or punched 1mm dia. holes on the rail centre-line. Templot can print a drilling template for that: 2_220711_090000000.png The rivets are tubular, and clenched over underneath to fix them. Ideally with a proper press tool, but many folks simply bash them with a small hammer, supporting the head in a washer to prevent crushing it into the plywood. You may see this method described as the Brook-Smith process, after the late Joe Brook Smith who invented it about 60 years ago. An alternative, also requiring 1mm holes, is to use electronics Vero pins: 2_020948_350000000.jpg F6319596-01.jpg These are a push fit, having ribs under the head, so need trimming underneath rather than clenching. They work great in copper-clad, but may not hold very firm in plywood. However, if you then fit cosmetic half-chairs round ...
... I remember marvelling at the quarry lines on the map you posted. My screen is 27" running 1920x1080. Being old fashioned( and just plain old) I though mobiles were just for making phone calls on.... The tractor at Belan is a( Massey) Ferguson 35. Tractor colour is always usually a good starter point for identification of the brands- not sure who decided on which company got which colours. No roll over protection or safety cabs in those days, an upside down tractor lying on a crushed driver was quite a frequent event. Your pic was at Lime Kilns Lane I think, not been up there for a couple of years. It has made it as far as Google Maps. Thanks for the info. Rob posted: 6 Nov 2018 23:55 from: Martin Wynne Thanks Rob. Yes, that's the location. Here's Belan Bottom Lock from the bridge, 5 years after Google: 2_061849_350000000.jpg Swing the camera round in Google to compare. cheers, Martin. posted: 7 Nov 2018 06:52 ...
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