Many years ago I was on a shoot in the Golden Triangle area shooting for Texaco. When traveling from one chemical to another I came across a Holland rail welding outfit. They were chopping off the worn end of jointed rail, welding it, taking up the concrete ties and replacing them with wooden ones. This was on the KCS, which I think was one of the early users of concrete ties. Apparently they weren't working out in this situation.
Bob Werre BobWphoto.com > > > Gents, > > Yep, Belgium, IIRC. That bit aside, it looks just about exactly like > the PA11 track laying set up I worked on in 1993 and 2000. Old rail up > and away while new rail down and in, with the old ties going away and > the new cement ties going down on freshly graded road bed. We had > three support trains, one with ballast and two for the ties. UP has > experimented with hollow steel stamped ties, stress fractures have > been a problem. Those ties are ending up in our local yard since > switching cars is considered to be less punishing on them. They may > last forever (relatively speaking) in yard service. > > Greg Elems > > --- In [email protected] <mailto:S-Scale%40yahoogroups.com>, > John Prior <shsj...@...> wrote: > > > > Ed, Bill, etc. > > > > Looking at the video, the action is in Belgium. The lack of hard hats > > and high visibility clothing would give our Health and Safety Hitler's > > heart attacks! > > > > Apart from those failures, it shows very well the operations of the > > trains I plan on a daily basis at work. > > > > John > > Swindon > > England > > > > On 13 Sep 2010, at 13:06, [email protected] > <mailto:S-Scale%40yahoogroups.com> wrote: > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> 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/
