Notched stock rails aren't prototypical, eh? Well.... maybe someone just wanted to build a 1:1 scale model railroad.......
Interesting spiking method:
Even kinked rails on curves are prototypical now! lol
So there you have it. Notched stock rails!!!!! These pictures were taken in Olympia, Greece last week. We were walking back to our bus after having toured the original site of the original Olympic Games thousands of years ago, and I just happened to see tracks through a little patch of woods. Having noticed the weird spiking method that was used on their subway/commuter train tracks, I wanted to check these out.
Does anybody know anything about Greek railroad practice? I mean.... i could have sworn that these rails were only 3 feet apart. Didn't have a yardstick on me though, haha.
Dave
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQ_ALEdDUB8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hqFS1GZL4s
http://s73.photobucket.com/user/steemtrayn/media/MovingcoalontheDCM.mp4.html?sort=3&o=27
Hi,
Notched stock rails are not as uncommon as we might think.
Here are some more images of a turnout with the stockrail removed to create clearance for the switch points....
Since switch parts are often supplied to railroads by third party suppliers it can be difficult to nail down a "standard" design for most elements of a switch.
There are lots of different designs for switch rail planing and fitting. Removing part of the stock rail foot is common. Here is a scan from BRT4 of 1971:
Thanks to Martin Wynne from Templot for the above scan.
Like always, when someone says "that isn't the way the prototype does it", be suspicious....
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I think most people refer to the notched rail head itself as being unprototypical. (like the Atlas turnouts)
What the heck were you doing in Greece? I'd love to visit there some day.
loathar wrote: What the heck were you doing in Greece? I'd love to visit there some day.
Just his luck, visits Greece the one week the Olympics are out of town.
Dave H.
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hahaha. Well my dad won a trip through his business. He works for Edward Jones, a stock brokerage firm. He's like... crazy, crazy good at it. Like... i'm talking no *** joke. Its absurd how much money he makes. Even he says so.
Anyway, the sweet thing about this company is that you can "earn" vacation trips by reaching certain quotas, I guess, in amount invested. I don't know what they are, but once he reaches a certain point, you can pick vacations. And then theres another mark where you can earn "super trips". Thats what we went on. Something we do ever summer... This one, we flew to Venice and got on a cruise ship, the Splendour of the Seas. We sailed to 3 ports in Greece: Mykonos so we could go to Athens, Delos, and.... Pyraeus so we could go to Olympia. mad ruins. and then we went to Split, Croatia. Then back to Venice.
i don't know why i'm not following in his footsteps.... the money is completely ridiculous. I mean, granted, it took him... 10-15 years to start reaching the threshold he's at, but we've been going on trips like this, well... not exactly this nuts, for like....... well, i'm 22 now, and we went to Alaska when I was going into 7th grade. That was the first. but yeah he quit his job as a banker so he could study for like 2 years in hopes of passing the test. my mom was an accountant, part time. fun times. and then, even after he got the job, he had to walk around EVERYWHERE and just go freakin crazy with making connections to start getting any business at all. seriously, the job is all about being likable. he barely passed math in high school, and deals with crazy numbers and symbols all day and weird equations with the stock market and economics and everything. so like, everything he is today is because of his own effort. like, its nuts.
but before you think anything... don't think for a minute that I see ANY of that, haha. like... my car is falling apart. its almost 15 years old. i buy my own food. most of my clothes are like, a few years old by now. and all of the train stuff that I have now, I'VE paid for. so yeah.
alright well that took longer than expected. shows you what a little time spent dancing to Phish with miss jane will do to a person, haha lol
DeadheadGreg wrote: hahaha. Well my dad won a trip through his business. He works for Edward Jones, a stock brokerage firm. He's like... crazy, crazy good at it. Like... i'm talking no *** joke. Its absurd how much money he makes. Even he says so.
A local radio financial advisor here warns his listeners about using those brokers that win exotic trips for reaching quotas.
well its not so much quota-reaching. The company just rewards investors for hard work. I mean, not everyone gets there. You've got to invest a crapload of money.
i mean really, though... you're kind of stupid for not getting into that company. i probably will in about 10 years if my plans to go as planned, lol. thats what my dad did. look at where he is now.
like, i hate talking about this. like... theres so many people struggling out there, and I feel like i don't deserve to be in the situation i am. okay. my dad went to the company's regional meeting a few months ago for the region he's in, which is pretty much all of New York state, some Vermont and Massachusetts. He was the top producer, out of everyone. Last year, he got invited to go to St. Louis, the company headquarters, to attend the meetings for the top 200 producers in the WHOLE COMPANY. like... ugh. i donno.... its such a weird situation. like my girlfriend's mom didn't even go to college, and they've lived paycheck-to-paycheck their whole lives. they live fine... but i mean, even being with her is such a reality check.
i donno... this is why I daydream about winning the Mega Millions and giving all (or most of it) away to charities to help kids with disabilities and to help starving people in Africa and whatnot.