Bob--you're too right about not being able to look at just one video!
I spent over an hour on the internet with Richard Feynman last night, interspersed with railroad-related sites. This is not a new problem for me--when I was a kid, I would look something up in the encyclopedia, then see something else that caught my eye, and end up spending hours buried in who-knows-what. Once, at age twelve, I read the entire Encyclopedia Britannica article on Greek mythology--my introduction to the classics! Also, read everything written on the steam locomotive and how it works (this is a railroad site, after all). On a more S scale related topic, I also spent quite a bit of time fantasizing that I could ditch my Lionel trains for AF--two rails seemed so much more realistic than three! Cheers, Fred T -----Original Message----- From: Bob Werre <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Fri, Apr 8, 2011 10:08 am Subject: Re: {S-Scale List} Staying on track & more 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 > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] = [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/
