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Steel tressel walkway saftey rails
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jwar
Member since
July 2003
From: Northern Ca
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Steel tressel walkway saftey rails
Posted by
jwar
on Thursday, September 8, 2005 1:36 AM
Need a few thoughts on how to make steel walkway saftey railing along the edge of two curved 38 in long tressels (HO), that form a wye.
I use N scale rail for bridge guard rail and wondering if the N scale ties would work for the post, with spring wire for the pipe horz railing? Not sure of the scale N dim. of a tie.
Thanks in advance for any info...John
John Warren's, Feather River Route WP and SP in HO
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dehusman
Member since
September 2003
From: Omaha, NE
10,616 posts
Posted by
dehusman
on Thursday, September 8, 2005 9:54 AM
Plastruct sells plastic railing material:
http://www.plastruct.com/Pages/Action.lasso?-database=PI.MASTER.fp5&-Layout=Complete&-Response=OnlineCatalogDetail.html&GraphicKey=RR-2&-Search
Dave H.
Dave H. Painted side goes up. My website : wnbranch.com
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jwar
Member since
July 2003
From: Northern Ca
1,008 posts
Posted by
jwar
on Thursday, September 8, 2005 2:25 PM
Thanks Dave, ordered thier Catalog.
From the pictures Im trying to go by, I need a post every 8-10 feet, with a horz pipe running accross the top and another horz pipe running accross in the center of each wood post. I can see now why a lot of modelers dont apply the walk way rails.
Perhaps Plastruct for the pipe and either N scale ties or ?...Owell Ive got a few weeks before I get that far, just trying to get my ducks in a row...Thanks again....John
John Warren's, Feather River Route WP and SP in HO
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dehusman
Member since
September 2003
From: Omaha, NE
10,616 posts
Posted by
dehusman
on Thursday, September 8, 2005 7:04 PM
Why do you want to use ties? Why not use stripwood (balsa or basswood)? Or plastic strip?
Dave H.
Dave H. Painted side goes up. My website : wnbranch.com
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jwar
Member since
July 2003
From: Northern Ca
1,008 posts
Posted by
jwar
on Thursday, September 8, 2005 9:44 PM
Hi Dave
Well the n scale tie is about a scale 6x6 and 4 1/2 feet long when using it in HO. I have scads of them as I stripped the rails off and used the rails for bridge rail on other bridges.
Now looking closer at the n scale tie (Atlas I presume) each tie has a hole where the rail was mounted on one side and the rail has a plastic spacer. Im thinking of curring the ties off at the upper side and removing the ties from this plastic strip, leaving a fence like post every 8 or so feet.. Then drilling holes to fit the post spacing on the bridge and the small tie spikes on lowere part of each post would be a simple set on on bridge. cut the ties with a zuron and sanded the nibs, look very close to the pictures of the keddie wye bridge, except for the lower cross section, ow which could be plastic strip...Dave I think I ansered my own question,...may go with it unless i hear of another way.
John Warren's, Feather River Route WP and SP in HO
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bogp40
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July 2004
From: Weymouth, Ma.
5,199 posts
Posted by
bogp40
on Thursday, September 8, 2005 10:06 PM
For your walkways, do them the same as is done w/ fire barrel platforms. Glue ties, stripwood or plastruct beams every 6-8', lay your choice of planking, and for the rails, I would suggest preformed railingsor for more durability, solder brass horizontals to the posts. Make the post spacing equal the beams to drill and glue.
Bob K.
Modeling B&O- Chessie
Bob K. www.ssmrc.org
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selector
Member since
February 2005
From: Vancouver Island, BC
23,321 posts
Posted by
selector
on Thursday, September 8, 2005 10:37 PM
I would use brass or other metal wire stock of an appropriate diameter. You could feed it through those holes all the way along, and then paint it red or yellow....even black.
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