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| Posted: Sun Mar 21st, 2021 05:14 am |
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Kitbash0n30
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Now that is one of the most interesting switches/turnouts I've ever seen.
Dundon, WV Station, and junction with the 'Buffalo Creek & Gauley Railroad' - 5/29/1960
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| Posted: Sun Mar 21st, 2021 07:45 am |
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corv8
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Could have been a desperate modelers idea...
When his trains always left the rails on a curved turnout.
Seems the right track leads to a bridge, I think I see guardrails?
Maybe this has something to do with the strange switch?
There may be some rule that doesn't like a switch near to a bridge?
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| Posted: Sun Mar 21st, 2021 09:11 am |
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2foot6
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I used to drive a 2 foot gauge 0-6-2 Bundaberg Fowler,
through a very similar switch (point) at Coal Creek in Victoria.
It was there to facilitate two different curves, and different gradients,
it worked well.
.........................Peter.
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| Posted: Tue Mar 23rd, 2021 08:53 pm |
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Lee B
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Wow, this is a classic,
"If you put this on a layout, everyone would say nobody ever did that"
situation.
Note the left part of the points, it swings way to the left as well,
so much so I wonder if it got too wide for the alignment?
Maybe the B&O put this in?
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Commanding Officer, 796th Railway Operating Battalion (in On30 gauge), operating on the Stoney Creek branch of the ET&WNC RR
Photos of my layout: https://www.flickr.com/photos/53587910@N05/albums/72157668176638961
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| Posted: Wed Mar 24th, 2021 05:13 am |
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