Hi all,
Thanks for all your replies.
My question about pre-bending rail comes from my notion that
special trackwork is best constucted like the sort of kit trackwork
that Eshelman used to sell with clips or metal strips soldered over
the railheads, and then gauged when finally on the ties/roadbed.
What is Homasote, it sounds like a trade name? We probably have
something similar in RSA, is it like 1/4" thick coarse paper. Why
use it? Paul mallery in his Trackwork Handbook advises against the
use of a soft roadbed, if that is in fact what Homasote is. I do
remember John Bortz's track as being quite noisy.
Another thought about a previous string... Why S? I think that S
is just such an eyeful. It just so takes up all your field of
vision from a couple of feet away. And then the numbers thing that
I don't think anyone mentioned. 1/4 of 1/64 is 1/256 which is so
close to 1/250 . So 4 thou = 1/4 inch and if you switch between
inches and metric 256 is just as close to 10 X 25.4 (the conversion
between inch and mm ) so 0.1mm shim is 1/4 plate and "S"o on. Had
to get that of my chest.
Chow for now,
Ant.
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