I've just finished up-loading a photo of the rail profiles I had mentioned a couple of days ago. The information I have is this:
The actual rail chunk was obtained when I was a kid after taking the Silverton train. I don't know if it's mine rail or from one of the several light narrow gauge railroads that served the area. The brown profile is from a Milwaukee Road branch line that served my hometown in South Dakota. The branch line was laid in the 1880's with rail obtained from Germany. This was dark territory, so no signals or any reason to insulate rail. I think the size/wight was 65 lbs. The medium sized blue profile was found on the KCS near Beaumont, Texas. The immediate area was also dark territory. The largest profile came from the old Burlington-Rock Island line that runs North out of Houston. As you can see it's nearly 7" high. This line has signals. The line is moderately active with coal trains, but was previously the home of both the Sam Houston Zephyr and a Rocket. They ran in alternative years. S content, modeling the Burlington/Rock Island would let you purchase two complete train sets of competing companies and run them on the same track. I suppose there were many such joint situations that would let you run multiple trains and be prototypical. Bob Werre > > > > --- In [email protected] <mailto:S-Scale%40yahoogroups.com>, Bob > Werre <bob@...> wrote: > > > > Dave, No they weren't used for insulation since regular steel joint > > bars would have run around the insulation anyhow. > > Hi Bob, Here on the SP they had insulated rail joiners for signals so > I'm thinking the insulated spacers might go in those joints to keep > the rail ends from touching if it expands. > The regular joints don't need a spacer they just have an air > gap....DaveBranum > > [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/
