Well, my Dad's layout has both code 125 and code 100 rail, and I can generally tell which is which at a glance without measuring. Code 125 looks "big" and 148 looks "bigger". I suspect if you just held up a piece of rail I could tell you it if it was bigger than code 100, although maybe not which larger size it was. Don't forget that in most cases the larger rail codes are also more massive with thicker head and base. They are not just taller (although that is all the "code" designation tells you).
Pieter Roos --- In [email protected], "rbnicholson2001" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- In [email protected], "Tom Hawley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: [somebody] > > The BNSF main line is closer to 148. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > . . .As Don Thompson has already pointed > > out, there has never been track out there in the real world with a rail > > height greater that 8 inches. . . > > > > As a reminder, our scale factor is 64. So you multiply 0.148 inch > by 64 and > > you find 148 rail represents rail about 9½ inches high. Not to be > found on > > the BNSF or anywhere else. I believe all the rail on the PRR that was 8 > > inches high (8 in ÷ 64 = 0.125 in = code 125 rail) has been replaced. > > Improved metalurgy has developed stronger rail without that much height. > > > > Tom Hawley -- Lansing Michigan > ____________________________________________ > > Yes, and we certainly wouldn't want to use rail an actual .024" > oversize that would stick out like a sore thumb on an otherwise scale > layout and earn us eternal ridicule from the experts, would we? > > Bob Nicholson To REPLY to the list, use REPLY ALL; to reply to the sender, use REPLY. For those of you on DIGEST mode, all REPLY messages go to the list (remember to edit the SUBJECT of your message). Change message settings, use our CALENDAR or LINKS, view shared files or photos, view the list archives, GO TO http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
