| Posted by IIVQ |
9/9/2004 10:19 AM | remove |
Not exactly ... that's what ties are for. This looks a bit like a device to either guide a cable or trip a switch at the underside of a rail robot.
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| Posted by 6 Atomic 6 Garden 6 |
9/11/2004 2:46 AM | remove |
theres was alot of these and other models and i think its to keep the right space in the yars because alot of trains pass there and the tracks may change gauge
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| Posted by nostra-YOUPPI! |
9/11/2004 2:48 AM | remove |
they are actually there according to trains magazine in yards to prevent stationary derailments, tracks splitting apart when idle cars are parked for a long time, happened a lot in the 70's.
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| Posted by 6 Atomic 6 Garden 6 |
9/11/2004 2:49 AM | remove |
thats what i meant...well...kinda thanks exposfan
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| Posted by nostra-YOUPPI! |
9/11/2004 2:52 AM | remove |
yeah stationary derailments are from rotting ties usually
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| Posted by 6 Atomic 6 Garden 6 |
9/11/2004 2:53 AM | remove |
ok
wellfromthe back and forth motion in the yards the ties must get used up alot faster than on normal ytracks
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| Posted by nostra-YOUPPI! |
9/11/2004 2:58 AM | remove |
the yards get no more wear than mainline tracks, yards dont ever see a rail grinder train, mainlines on the other hand can lose as much as an inch off the crown of the rail. that makes the wheels ride too low causing friction, pandrol jackson operates a rail grinder you can see twice a year on the west island cn and cp tracks. its job is to restore the rail head profile, it gets the train riding on the ball of the rail. If you want to see somthing scary go to the dorval mc dicks and watch a high speed grain train(heaviest of them) and watch how much the rails bounce that pulls the spikes out and everything.
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| Posted by SPEK Photo |
9/11/2004 4:13 AM | remove |
I took a picture of a rail grinder years ago.
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| Posted by 6 Atomic 6 Garden 6 |
9/11/2004 1:01 PM | remove |
cool doyou still have it?
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| Posted by SPEK Photo |
9/11/2004 1:31 PM | remove |
yes but it is not scaned.
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| Posted by nostra-YOUPPI! |
9/11/2004 4:13 PM | remove |
yeah Pandrol jacksons rail grinder consists of the grinding eqipment but also a pair of former go transit coaches and a couple of old locomotives it looks like it was beat on with the ugly stick
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| Posted by nostra-YOUPPI! |
9/11/2004 4:15 PM | remove |
http://www.alabamarailfan.com/sightings.php some pics of railgrinders
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| Posted by SPEK Photo |
9/11/2004 6:58 PM | remove |
Ok, it'S not a railgrinder that I took in picture, it's an inspection wagon, an SRS like this one:
http://www.alabamarailfan.com/cgi-bin/download.php?file=srs_123.jpg&catid=image
The guy told me that it spray paint the bad track sections.
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| Posted by 6 Atomic 6 Garden 6 |
9/11/2004 10:41 PM | remove |
okk
tap-
btw way first time today actually in the maltplant pretty fun and dark (wasnt equipped)
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| Posted by nostra-YOUPPI! |
9/11/2004 11:13 PM | remove |
that one you posted is a retired doodlebug, a rather historic piece of equipment. its like all those old rdc cars parked in point st charles the same idea
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| Posted by 6 Atomic 6 Garden 6 |
9/11/2004 11:31 PM | remove |
instead of exposfan your name should be railfan
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| Posted by nostra-YOUPPI! |
9/12/2004 5:57 AM | remove |
lol im into way too many mundane hobbies, as far as baseball goes i have driven 10 hours to see a baseball game!
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| Posted by Charlie_Dunver |
3/27/2006 1:49 AM | remove |
I have never seen one of those myself. Interesting. I once worked on a section on the CP in BC, hee hee! Anyway, I still have a hard time trying to understand why the tracks just don t blast apart every time a train goes by. It s an engineering miracle!
Yea, a locomotive by it s sheer weight is constantly putting ridiculous amounts of pressue on the place it stands - a boxcar on the other hand is like a little toy in comparison.
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| Posted by nostra-YOUPPI! |
3/27/2006 3:22 AM | remove |
i once pushed a box car that was empty got it to move a foot, you would be amazed by how little friction of steel on steel
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| Posted by Charlie_Dunver |
3/31/2006 9:43 PM | remove |
yes, I love it when a passenger train rips by --- it sounds so smooth, yet you would think that friction would be creating a disaster.
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| Posted by nostra-YOUPPI! |
4/1/2006 5:52 AM | remove |
especially on the lovely welded rails on the waste island so smooth
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| Posted by Charlie_Dunver |
4/2/2006 2:01 AM | remove |
in the mountains in BC they weld 78 foot sections so that in effect you end up with a 1/4 mile piece of rail way to many curves so this eliminates stress on the joints.
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| Posted by nostra-YOUPPI! |
4/2/2006 4:50 AM | remove |
its pretty much standard now on mainlines, walk the cn line from the turcot yards to ste anne de bellvue and youll see nearly no joints, the cpr bride the same, the upstream side is welded to st jean sur richelieu, the downstream side not
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| Posted by Charlie_Dunver |
4/2/2006 7:37 PM | remove |
Never noticed --- I guess with less traffic and
less of a committment to maitenance....Funny they waited so long to go that way
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| Posted by nostra-YOUPPI! |
4/3/2006 2:22 AM | remove |
the only non welded main line i can think of in montreal is between the mtl west junction and windsor station
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