Fred,  that's pretty neat.

The trouble with U-tube is that you just can't look at one video as they 
always suggest more to view.  If you go a bit further down the list 
you'll come across this one:  
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1AvmCIWKJ00&feature=related

As the CN trains passes you'll start to see what we were discussing a 
few weeks ago when the former Downs tank cars were brought back to 
life.  That's a fairly long dedicated tank train but now in CN colors.

Bob Werre,
BobWphoto.com
>
> Fellow travelers,
>
> This link is to a very elegant explanation, given by Richard Feynman, 
> perhaps the most brilliant theoretical physicist ever, on why a train 
> stays on the track. At first I thought this was a fascinating railroad 
> general interest item with little specific connection to S scale, but 
> the more I turn it over in my mind, it does bear on the 
> scale/hirail/AF question, in that the thing that keeps an S scale 
> train on the track is in fact, the same phenomenon that keeps a real 
> train on the track, while the thing that keeps an AF train on the 
> track actually is the flange!
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=WAwDvbIfkos 
> <http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=WAwDvbIfkos>
>
> Enjoy!
>
> Fred Tolhurst
>
> Maryville, TN
>



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