I'm curious so maybe the professional railroaders can help me out here. If you get distracted and lose count of the poles, do you have to back the train up and start over?
Just wondering Jim ________________________________ From: Andre Ming <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Sat, November 13, 2010 10:36:52 AM Subject: Re: {S-Scale List} FNF We still use pole count on the A&M. 40 per mile. Of course, most of the original telegraph poles are long gone, so we have miles marked in 10 pole increments to help orient slow orders/etc. All this week, I had slow orders that basically read: 10 MPH at: MP. 417 plus 17 poles to 23 poles MP. 418 plus 13 poles MP. 420 plus 8 poles. Andre Ming ----- Original Message ----- From: "shabbona_rr" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, November 13, 2010 8:35 AM Subject: Re: {S-Scale List} FNF > On Santa Fe, the nation's premier railroad, we figured 40 poles to the > mile. Slow orders were based on poles (not pole length spacing) to locate > affected track, for instance, "3 Poles West of MP205 to 4 Poles west of MP > 206." > > Once a BN conductor was ridiculing me because they used feet instead of > pole lengths. I asked him which he'd rather count from the train, poles or > feet > > Bob Nicholson ________________________________________ > > > --- In [email protected], pr...@... wrote: >> >> Peter, Nice job, they look very relistic.If my memory serves me >> correctly,they were spaced about 80' apart. I can remember old head >> engineers using >> them to calculate train length. Of course back then most cars were 40 >> footers and every pole was 2 car lengths.They may have been 120' foot >> apart but >> I'm thinking 80' is right. >> >> Gary Carmichael >> >> >> In a message dated 11/13/2010 9:00:26 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, >> pavanvl...@... writes: >> >> >> >> >> This week I finished installing 9 scratchbuilt telephone/telegraph poles >> on part of the layout that is already in the scenery stage. I documented >> the process of building them on my web site: >> >> _http://pmrr.org/Articles/Scenery/TelegraphPoles.htm_ >> (http://pmrr.org/Articles/Scenery/TelegraphPoles.htm) >> >> Enjoy, >> - Peter. >> -- >> Peter Vanvliet (_pavanvl...@..._ (mailto:pavanvl...@...) , or >> _pe...@..._ (mailto:pe...@...) ) >> Houston, Texas >> >> "It is easy to give up; anyone can do that..." >> >> _http://pmrr.org/_ (http://pmrr.org/) (my model railroad) >> _http://fourthray.com/_ (http://fourthray.com/) (my company) >> _http://houstonsgaugers.org/_ (http://houstonsgaugers.org/) (model >> railroad club) >> -- >> >> >> >> >> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] >> > > > > > ------------------------------------ > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > __________ Information from ESET Smart Security, version of virus > signature database 4984 (20100330) __________ > > The message was checked by ESET Smart Security. > > http://www.eset.com > > > [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/
