Bob, Looks like they did the math for you. Our slow orders were based on
mile post,such as mp 9.3 to mp 9.7. Since I was usually in the cabin car I
could only hope they figured right. I'm sure that you guy's were like us and
knew your territory spike by spike.
8 & sand
Gary Carmichael
In a message dated 11/13/2010 9:35:12 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,
[email protected] writes:
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]_ (mailto:[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_)
> (_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/_) (_http://pmrr.org/_
(http://pmrr.org/) ) (my model railroad)
> __http://fourthray.com/__ (http://fourthray.com/_)
(_http://fourthray.com/_ (http://fourthray.com/) ) (my company)
> __http://houstonsgaugers.org/__ (http://houstonsgaugers.org/_)
(_http://houstonsgaugers.org/_ (http://houstonsgaugers.org/) ) (model
> railroad club)
> --
>
>
>
>
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>
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