Inexact, my eye - what we did was known as "seat of the pants". We didn't have time to figure from the inside faces of couplers and whatever. The computer between our ears did all the work.
Bob Nicholson ______________________________________________ --- In [email protected], "Tom Hawley" <t.haw...@...> wrote: > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: pr...@... > . . . . . . . . . .If my memory serves me correctly,they [ > telephone/telegraph poles] 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. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > This sound like a rather inexact technology. A car's effective length in a > train is not its inside length; it's from inside pulling face of coupler on > one end to the same point on the other end, probably about 45 feet for a "40 > foot" boxcar. > > Tom Hawley -- Lansing Mich > ------------------------------------ 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/
