bumpers for shed ?

[Bis]

I am building a single stall engine shed for my 1950's HO layout. What type of a bumper would they use inside the shed and also what type of bumpers on the surronding sidings ?

 Thanks for any info you can supply.

 Ken in East Texas

[BroadwayLion]

An engine shed. Probably uses those triangular blocks for each wheel. You do not want big bumpers in the way in your shops, and besides shop speed is only about 1 - 3 mph.

This photo was taken in Richardton, at the end of the siding. You cannot see much of the bumper or wheel stop, but there it is. By the way, the NIMBYS do not want something built in their back yard.

ROAR

[Bis]

Thanks Lion, so inside the building I need "triangular blocks", what about any surronding sidings assoicated with the shed?

 Also what is "NIMBYS" ?

[BroadwayLion]

NIMBYS = Not In My Back Yard.

They want more train service, but they do not want you to build the tracks near their house.

Whatever civic improvement you propose, the NIMBYS will come out in force to oppose.

As for the other tracks... It depends on the railroad and their bank account. Some will just toss an old tie across the tracks, some will just bend the rails up into a Hayes type bumper.  It they are in a paved or graveled work area, then you would stick with the triangles.  You do not want things in the way of your work space even if it is 1:1 or 1:87.

The blocks that you see in the photo were just bolted onto the track when it was cut short at that point and no longer crossed Hwy 8.

ROAR

[Bis]

I looked in the Wathers Cat. and found the triangle stops, are those correct for a rural area in the early 1950"s??

[Motley]

You don't really need the triangle stops. The RRs didn't use them everywhere. They would have a pile of dirt or ballast to stop the cars.

I don't like the space they take up, and I don't like the look of them. So on my layout I have a small pile of ballast on all industry and yard tracks.

[0-6-0]

Hello I use small stop's in the shed and a pile of rocks, ties, hays bumpers outside. Just about anything will work. Here is a link to a old thread I started about ending the track. There some good ideas and some photos of what some use. Hope this helps Frank

http://cs.trains.com/mrr/f/88/t/109075.aspx?sort=ASC&pi314=2

 

[jrbernier]

Usually most roundhouse/engine houses I have seen have NO bumpers or wheel stops inside the structure.

Jim

[modelmaker51]

Non of the engine houses/sheds I have ever been in had any kind of bumpers or wheels stops. Adjoining tracks could have bumpers or wheel stops.

[Bis]

Thanks everyone for the great info. It was a great help. You folks are a wealth of information. Thanks again.

Ken

[tomikawaTT]

Here's a bumper for you!

In Amarillo, TX, the BNSF uses a remnant of the old Rock Island main for car storage.  Where that track ends (just short of where a former road overpass is now a pair of empty abutments) they dumped about two truckloads of ballast in a heap over rails and ties.

One time, when I was passing that track end (which is just off I-40) there was a N&W covered hopper high-centered on the gravel pile.  Apparently the local switch crew tried to stuff one car too many into the track...

Chuck (Modeling Central Japan in September, 1964 - observing odd railroad stuff all over)

[DSO17]

     The most I've ever seen for a "bumper" in a shop building is small steel blocks about 2 in. wide, 2 in. high, and 3 in. long welded on the top of the rails and that was just on the older tracks in one shop. Even in that shop the newer tracks didn't have anything at the end.

     In a prototype loco shop you don't want any kind of stops to be over 3 in. high because when, not if, an engine gets into them the pilot will likely get damaged. A very common prototype sight would be flange marks in the floor past the end of the rails.

    

    

 

[Geared Steam]

ROAR!

No bumpers needed

[steemtrayn]

NJ Transit's engine house in Hoboken, NJ has two tracks. one goes through the building and the other is a stub with a large concrete block that protects the locker/rest room. Originally it was a Railway Express Agency facility.

[BroadwayLion]

Geared Steam

ROAR!

No bumpers needed

ROAR!