Rail and Tie
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Tiny Trains...Big Fun!
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« Reply #990 on: February 24, 2012, 12:05:18 PM » |
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...and just two more  doesn't inspire confidence in the maintenance programme does it " Bridge No. 3?"  we're not sure Here is Bridge 3. Sorry for the quality as it is a video capture as we were doing video while going over this bridge. Note the logs used for replacement ties! |
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Chuck Doan
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« Reply #991 on: February 24, 2012, 02:38:25 PM » |
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That is a great bridge!
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Malachi Constant
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« Reply #992 on: February 24, 2012, 04:56:47 PM » |
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Cool combo ... narrow gauge ... rough-cut ties ... steel bridge. They overdid it a bit on the rust and chipping. So it goes. -- Dallas
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-- Dallas Mallerich (Just a freakin' newbie who stumbled into the place) Email me on the "Contact Us" page at www.BoulderValleyModels.com |
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W.P. Rayner
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« Reply #993 on: February 24, 2012, 10:49:06 PM » |
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Mark's new ride ... a three-speed quadricycle. Front axle pivots vertically to negotiate irregularities in trackwork. Rebuilt in 2006 by Richard Morris in Blaenau Ffestiniog. The bulb horn and rear beer cooler (?) are nice touches though you need to do something about those pedals and that fat-ass saddle  ... Picture from Rail Machines Ltd. via the Minimum Gauge Forum. Paul |
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Les
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STOP watch for trains
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« Reply #994 on: February 28, 2012, 05:06:28 PM » |
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This sign that reappeared after around 100 years but now has vanished for ever
Les
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marc_reusser
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« Reply #995 on: February 28, 2012, 05:23:35 PM » |
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Mark's new ride ... a three-speed quadricycle. Front axle pivots vertically to negotiate irregularities in trackwork. Rebuilt in 2006 by Richard Morris in Blaenau Ffestiniog. The bulb horn and rear beer cooler (?) are nice touches though you need to do something about those pedals and that fat-ass saddle ... Picture from Rail Machines Ltd. via the Minimum Gauge Forum. Paul As is, its way too recumbent...definitely needs a nice carbon/titanium saddle, then need to raise it above the bars, and add some clip-in's (reflectors wont do you any good on a rail line...they're just added weight), and with those kind of grips, you really need the streamers coming out the ends. Beer cooler needs to be raised up behind the seat...too far down to fumble around in while trying to keep a good cadence or doing a pace-line. |
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I am an unreliable witness to my own existence.In the corners of my mind there is a circus....M-Works
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« Reply #996 on: February 28, 2012, 05:25:22 PM » |
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...and just two more doesn't inspire confidence in the maintenance programme does it " Bridge No. 3?" we're not sure Here is Bridge 3. Sorry for the quality as it is a video capture as we were doing video while going over this bridge. Note the logs used for replacement ties! Awesome bridge. Thanks for sharing this. |
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I am an unreliable witness to my own existence.In the corners of my mind there is a circus....M-Works
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« Reply #997 on: February 28, 2012, 08:30:36 PM » |
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nice bike but it needs a few things
1-23 gears
2-battery asisted drive
3-frount wheel suspension
4-frount and back warning lights
and a bloody big person to push it up hills
cheers
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Ray Dunakin
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« Reply #998 on: February 28, 2012, 08:38:21 PM » |
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The wheels on that rail bike look way too small. Seems like you'd have to peddle like mad to get any decent speed with such small wheels.
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W.P. Rayner
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« Reply #999 on: February 28, 2012, 10:11:36 PM » |
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As is, its way too recumbent...definitely needs a nice carbon/titanium saddle, then need to raise it above the bars, and add some clip-in's (reflectors wont do you any good on a rail line...they're just added weight), and with those kind of grips, you really need the streamers coming out the ends. Beer cooler needs to be raised up behind the seat...too far down to fumble around in while trying to keep a good cadence or doing a pace-line. Yep, and add a set of Cinelli bars, put on a much larger front sprocket, get rid of the gear train and you'll have a fixie track bike...  Paul |
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pwranta193
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« Reply #1001 on: March 01, 2012, 02:44:59 PM » |
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Primary design flaw of the rail bike: No spokes for the attachment of playing cards. There is also a lack of "go faster" handle bar streamers.
Fail.
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Paul
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eTraxx
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« Reply #1002 on: March 05, 2012, 06:35:19 AM » |
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This link was posted on one of the Yahoo forums. It's two 8x10 glass negatives of Marquette, Michigan, circa 1908. Man. What a delight Shorpy: More Marquette: 1908 |
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Ray Dunakin
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« Reply #1003 on: March 05, 2012, 05:57:49 PM » |
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That Marquette panorama is terrific, so many things to see in it! The freight cars visible in the upper left, for instance... some wooden hoppers, and some rather small boxcars plus a larger boxcar.
Many of the buildings in this photo would make great models, or reference for detailing.
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« Reply #1004 on: March 06, 2012, 02:38:10 PM » |
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That Marquette panorama is terrific, so many things to see in it! The freight cars visible in the upper left, for instance... some wooden hoppers, and some rather small boxcars plus a larger boxcar.
Many of the buildings in this photo would make great models, or reference for detailing.
I was fascinated by the shingle roof bottom left. looks like kids been skipping about all over it, Not that I did much of that when a boy, what also took my eye was the tram track stopping dead at the bottom end of the main street no stops to the rail |
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Don in sunny Devon, England
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