Take a look at this website if you want to see some really first class hi rail:
http://norm.beesky.com/
Wow, very nice Norm! Great looking hi-rail dare I call it scale layout a real master piece! Was your layout featured in OGR or CTT magazines awhile back? Maybe this thread/discussion belongs in a different forum at CTT?
George
Tom Curtin wrote: tsgtbob wrote: I was going to ignore this thread, BUT, I just HAVE to chime in with my .002 (tax exempt).I see we've had some de-flation here. ".002" is two tenths of a cent. I wish I could see that in our grocery bill. [The above is strictly offered in good fun and I hope will be taken as such]
tsgtbob wrote: I was going to ignore this thread, BUT, I just HAVE to chime in with my .002 (tax exempt).
I was going to ignore this thread, BUT, I just HAVE to chime in with my .002 (tax exempt).
[The above is strictly offered in good fun and I hope will be taken as such]
No, that is exactally what I ment. .002
Exactally what my opinion is worth. No more, no less.
My opinion WAS worth .02 35 years ago, but inflation has made it worth .002!
Hi Don,
I haven't seen You down at the club in quite awhile, glad to at least see You here on the Forums. I Hope that all is well with You.
Thank You for the Compliment, as far as "Live Steam" it is Very Impressive, I got to see a Gauge #1 Live Steam Shay a couple years ago at Glenda Boeckel's (Spelling?) Garden Layout before it was dismantled and She moved. I also have seen a Live Steam Berkshire run at Staver Locomotive, down near Montgomery Park.
As Great as those Gauge #1 live Steamers were though, they were nothing compared to getting a little throttle time on a 12 inch to the Foot scale Live Steamer. Last June, I got some throttle time on a Privately owned H.K. Porter 0-4-0T, and in July, I went to the Nevada Northern in Ely, NV and got some throttle time on both their SD-9 #204 and their 4-6-0 #40. This July 25th, I am scheduled to go to the Sumpter Valley Railway, to Hopefully run their Heisler, but being a wood-burner, it may not be allowed to run because of being so late in the fire season, in which case I would still get to run their #19 2-8-2. If so, I will have to reserve the Heisler for earlier in the season next year.
Doug, CGMRC mem# 101
(NOT Auberg, the other Doug, the GOOD LOOKING one)
May your flanges always stay BETWEEN the rails
markpierce wrote: Sorry, I just can't accept the look of a third rail on a model railroad unless one is modeling dual gauge or a cog railway. I'll admit, however, modeling a working track switch for a cog railway would be difficult, particular if modeling the Locher rack system (look up "rack railway" in Wikidpedia for an explanation of that system) as used on Mt. Pilatus, Switzerland because the turnouts rotate as pictured below.Mark
Sorry, I just can't accept the look of a third rail on a model railroad unless one is modeling dual gauge or a cog railway. I'll admit, however, modeling a working track switch for a cog railway would be difficult, particular if modeling the Locher rack system (look up "rack railway" in Wikidpedia for an explanation of that system) as used on Mt. Pilatus, Switzerland because the turnouts rotate as pictured below.
Mark
UUHHMM, Who says that 3-rail, isn't prototypical, (I KNEW that I had this pic hiding in my computer somewhere) Yes, I do know what is going on here, but well, it still looks like prototype 3-rail to me. I have heard the expression, "There is a prototype for everything" Well here is the prototype for MY 3-Rail track, so YES, it CAN be justified, I'm just pre-laying new rail, down the center of ALL my tracks. You get to model whatever size sub-division you want, in LESS than ONE SCALE SQUARE MILE (probably MUCH less than, unless it is a really big club), and I get to "lay New rail" in the center of all my tracks, now we can all be Happy, isn't that what, the Hobby is supposed to be about any way?
Doug