This is also a good time to add flanger signs near you grade crossings.
I wonder in the case of a plow operator forgetting/not knowing when to
raise the plow--which would win? the plow or the crossing planks!
I accidentally created an impasse on my lower level that caused my SHS F
units to stop. Near plywood or other scenery joints, I'll often add
some standard masking tape to cover the joints before I began covering
the area in scenery. I also have been known to smooth irregular areas
with real sand and then add ground and plant foliage as the final
cover. In one case I didn't tape enough and a fair amount of sand ran
between the cracks down on a lower, normally hidden level. The sand
just heaped over my mainline, so the next engine through that area was
stopped dead. No damage done that a vacuum and some wheel cleaning
wouldn't correct.
Bob Werre
PhotoTraxx
On 4/28/12 1:43 PM, shabbona_rr wrote:
How much more realism do you want? Check out some low-maintenance
rural grade crossings sometime. That's one reason why locomotives, at
least in the US, have low mounted pilots. They protect the underbody
machinery
Bob (oopS "boB") Nicholson ________________________________________
--- In [email protected] <mailto:S-Scale%40yahoogroups.com>,
"Edward Loizeaux" <Loizeaux@...> wrote:
>
> I had the same issue with the SHS F-3 diesels at a dirt road grade
crossing.
> The dirt road mounded up just a little bit between the rails. After
the F-3
> A-B-B-A train came roaring through, the road had a "flat top"
without going
> to a barber shop.
>
