--- In [email protected], "Ed" <Loizeaux@...> wrote:
> Since train track has TWO rails, I have often wondered why rail is sold in
> bundles with an ODD number of rails. A bundle with 33 rails will always be
> one rail too many or one rail too few.
Hi Ed, I think it started because 33 X 3 was the closest they could get to
selling 100 feet of rail which guys used as a planning guide. Now it if they
were thinking in hundreds it probably woulda made more sense to sell the
bundles as 66 X 3 so they could build 99 feet of track instead of 49.5?
I always wonder why guys care if the rail matches the other track on a
layout. Wandering around the real thing I see many compromise joints where
different sizes of rail join so having all my rail the same is the last thing
I'd want on a layout....DaveBranum
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