A difference in scale...

[JeffShultz]

I've found an old hunk of rail (glass blasted and clearcoated) makes a dandy weight.... like when I'm gluing down track.

I also figure if the swingout will support this, it'll probably support anything I'm likely to run across it:

 

[Rednarb]

Aw man, look at how HUGE it is! Thanks for sharing!

 

[jbaakko]

Dang, I use CD cases!

 

[lmackattack]

Is that code 1000? LOL

 

[Larry]

I use to use short pieces of 6" I beam until I left it on the tracks for 3 days & when I came back it had squished the track down into the cork roadbed & warped the heck out of the rail.
That track section is a nice conversation piece for short term glue project.
Now, I use smaller pieces of diff. weight machinest steel. Depends on how much weight I need to hold something down.
Don't use that to hold down a roof panel on a new scratchbuilt building, it might bend it a little.

Larry C.

 

[OldGettysk]

Holy Cow Jeff that piece of rail looks like it would crush that roadbed !!!!!!!

 

[CP9302]

I've got a rusty old 3" piece of rail that I use as a door stop.

 

[kjd]

Is that code 1000? LOL

if it is 136lb it is about code 7375!

 

[Maxitrains]

Nice piece of rail Jeff, but if I was you I would rather be carefull from using that as a weight, since it has very sharp edges at bottom, and it might pinch the rails when the road bed is squeezed. if you wand to use it as weight at least place a piece of wood or plywood in between the weight and rail, since the wood is soft and would take the shape of the rail. Or else grind the edges of the weight in a roundish edge.

Be carefull of that edge!!!

 

[Selector]

I won a chunk of rail like that mounted on a wooden base with a nice brass plaque for placing first in my age category in a running championship. It was real rail from the CPR dated 1910. Heavy!!!!

I would absolutely not use it as you have shown it...I would fear that the lateral force of trying to settle, as you have it tilted, would tend to want to fold the rails out of their retaining plastic spikes.

 

[modelbob]

I would absolutely not use it as you have shown it...I would fear that the lateral force of trying to settle, as you have it tilted, would tend to want to fold the rails out of their retaining plastic spikes.

I think you're seeing an optical illusion due to the angle of the track in the photo. I'm pretty sure it's setting on the rails flat and level. If he places it on the rail gently, there shouldn't be any problems.