New digital cam, got some pics to share.

[adrianspeeder]

Wait, how do i post pics?[?]

Adrianspeeder

[Modelcar]

Adrian....Nora indicates she's willing to help....

[Anonymous]

You had me all excited!

[cherokee woman]

Adrianspeeder, go to members, pull up Nora's profile & email her. She'll send
you the instructions. She did for us, and she's REAL good about sharing with
her fellow forum members.

[adrianspeeder]

OK here we go.

This is me and the cam.


This is a shot of Three Mile Island in the backround. Right down the road is Three Mile Island Nuke Plant. Unit One's Towers are steaming and Unit Two's towers are abandoned for obvious reasons.



Thems fightin words...


Somebody cut an amtrak lock.


What's this a bucket of?


And my baby

[adrianspeeder]

No my babys not a red x

Try this

[edblysard]

Its a bucket of old spikes.
The new spikes were in the bucket, they replaced the pulled spikes, which were gathered up and dumped in the bucket.
Typical for a railroad, clean up one mess, to just dump it in one place.
Ed

[Modelcar]

...You got a little sneaky Adrian, by taking the pic in a mirror and turning everything backwards.....but it came out neat....[:D]

[Anonymous]

Kinda creepy seeing that Nuke Plant...
Can you see it from your house?

[Anonymous]

I also see a bunch of old rusty rail anchors in that bucket (they're the ones that look bent and are not shaped like spikes). For the unfamiliar out there in Forum land, they're force-fit on the rail base against the crossties (usually on each side of the tie) to keep the rail from sliding forward and backward on the crossties. The rails, when spiked or Pandrol-clipped down, can't move from side to side easily but can slide forward and backward on the tie plates if the right amount of force is applied by the train. This forward/backward rail motion is in response to the forces the powered and braking wheels exert as the train rolls by (powered wheels try to force the rail to move in the opposite direction from the train's motion and wheels being braked try to force the rail to move in the same direction as the train). Envision a 'toon car slamming on its brakes and pulling the pavement into a big heap in front of it. That's the kind of forces the anchors are designed to resist.

[Modelcar]

...Don't they also help resist the rail from expansion and contraction movement from up and down temps.....

[locomutt]

Thanks for sharing,
Those are some good pics!

and I would have to agree with drephpe,those do look like
rail anchors.

[adrianspeeder]

Thats the big ol' truck mirror, it comes in very handy towing my big trailer of mowers. TMI is visible from my house, but i drove to where the watertower is for that shot. Nobody has ever heard of middletown, but if I say TMI, i get "ohhhhhh" then they step back a foot from me. The bucket of stuff was next to amtrak rails going into harrisburg. And my baby is an '02 Ford F-250 super duty with the power stroke diesel engine.

Adrianspeeder

[Willy2]

Nice photos. Thanks for showing them to us.

Willy

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Modelcar

...Don't they also help resist the rail from expansion and contraction movement from up and down temps.....

Yes, that's true, too. And just in case there might be any confusion (my bad, if so, for phrasing it the way I did), they're not used with Pandrol clips. The forces on the rail are what I'm talking about.

By the way, (I forgot--just got off 1+ plane per day for the last week and 4 hrs/nite sleep[xx(]), those are very nice pix. Thx for sharing.[tup][tup]