Spotted this in Commerce CA and it seemed to me more like something you would model (out of convience - a place to put some extra track panels) than something you would ever see in reality.
http://freericks.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=1003353
And a close up of one car.
http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=217311&nseq=3
Good photos
I wonder what the yellow tape is for on the side of the gondola
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jeffrey-wimberly wrote:That's reflective safety tape so that half blind yahoos out speeding around at night can see that there's something at the railroad crossing.
Hey, Bubba!! Cop Tape! Watch me bust it!! Assuming, that is, that they're sober enough to see it.
IIRC, panelized rail sections were one of the uses I suggested for unwanted brass sectional track.
Chuck (modeling Central Japan in September, 1964)
tomikawaTT wrote: jeffrey-wimberly wrote:That's reflective safety tape so that half blind yahoos out speeding around at night can see that there's something at the railroad crossing.Hey, Bubba!! Cop Tape! Watch me bust it!! Assuming, that is, that they're sober enough to see it.IIRC, panelized rail sections were one of the uses I suggested for unwanted brass sectional track.Chuck (modeling Central Japan in September, 1964)
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Erie Lackawanna wrote:Spotted this in Commerce CA and it seemed to me more like something you would model (out of convience - a place to put some extra track panels) than something you would ever see in reality.http://freericks.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=1003353And a close up of one car.http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=217311&nseq=3
Those are new turnouts -- appear to be #15s (good for 30 mph). This is the common way of shipping them. If they are to be installed in a main track that's in service, they are assembled on "turnout pads" adjacent to where they will go, welded up, then slid into place with two or three rubber-tired loaders or speed-swings.
RWM
Kenfolk wrote:Are those turnouts Peco or Atlas? Since they're not ballasted, can't be EZ track...
Yeah, using ballasted turnouts in gondolas might lesson the effect!
Reality...an interesting concept with no successful applications, that should always be accompanied by a "Do not try this at home" warning.
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