Dric902 Posted February 27, 2021 Share Posted February 27, 2021 (edited) 8 minutes ago, Borg warner said: Trains don't lean over very much when going around corners. The railhead isn’t flat, it’s crowned, the wheels aren’t flat, the are inverted cone shaped. That why the flange is very important. It keeps the wheels on the rail , but let’s them “float” on a contact patch about the size of a dime. This take into account for curves and various rail geometry spread. Edited February 27, 2021 by Dric902 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Dric902 Posted March 2, 2021 Share Posted March 2, 2021 Today we need less than 4 inches of water to operated and that’s at walking speed. they didn’t have that issue back then, but I bet the oilers were busy afterwards 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DWARREN123 Posted March 3, 2021 Share Posted March 3, 2021 Use to have one of these in Nashville Tennessee (Woodbine area) long ago! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
railfancwb Posted March 3, 2021 Share Posted March 3, 2021 On 2/28/2021 at 1:24 PM, Dric902 said: Memphis Yard BNSF Seems a lot of hump yards are being removed or converted to flat switching. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
railfancwb Posted March 3, 2021 Share Posted March 3, 2021 1 hour ago, DWARREN123 said: Use to have one of these in Nashville Tennessee (Woodbine area) long ago! Haven’t looked in several years, but last time I did some was still there. They had taken half or more out to make room for an intermodal yard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dric902 Posted March 3, 2021 Share Posted March 3, 2021 1 hour ago, railfancwb said: Seems a lot of hump yards are being removed or converted to flat switching. Unfortunately they are. a two man crew can hump 800 plus cars on an easy day, two crews at a shift, three shifts. A whole class yard can be worked easily. the companies decided to go with a remote controlled hump engine and a man with a box on his chest. Car counts dropped dramatically, rail damage increased, engine maintenance increased, accidents increased. Rather than going back to a hump crew, it was decided that humps are now inefficient and can be replaced by hours of road crews block swapping and yard crews flat switching (without kicking cars of course) delays are huge . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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railfancwb Posted March 7, 2021 Share Posted March 7, 2021 57 minutes ago, Dric902 said: 1936 Rexall Train . This model Rexall Train runs on Lionel three rail track. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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jmohme Posted March 9, 2021 Share Posted March 9, 2021 Several years ago, I was passing through Granger Texas as they were filming the train scene for the remake of True Grit, so I pulled over and got a few shots. This is one of them. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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