Good morning .... The surgery went very well and the wound should heal in a week or so. I have a new implanted defibrillator / pacemaker and I should be good for another 5 years at least. Thanks everybody for your concern.
Garry: I figured it would be smooth sailing for you, glad to hear it was knowing your back on posting so soon!
Good afternoon y'all. Been down in the train room. Trying to get a handle on my track work. My joiners are loose. Unfortunately they aren't the only things loose. I have a rail really loose in the ties. Soooooo......another section I'll have to take out. This is starting to get old. I'd much rather move on to something else. Oh well. I'll let y'all know how it turns out.
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Say Justin: There are a couple of other way to also handle the loose rail joiners {RJ] as well a the loose rail.
If you have any fairly thin scrap brass or call the local auto parts to see if they have a package of Shim Stock, usually brass in different thicknesses a try slipping the corner of a piece of shim stock under the loose rail joiner till you find the right thickness that is snug and cut a thin strip that you can press or tap in between the top of the rail base and the under side of the rail joiner so it's fairly snug and that will make good contact for you.
Another way is to get some fairly stout rail spikes that are fairly long with a fairly large head and pre-drill a hole, about 6-8/thousandsth less than the diameter of the spike, along side the RJ so you can push or tap the spike down so it depresses the RJ to make contact with the rail base. Just don't tap it down too firmly. Heck you could even use a common pin with the head clipped off and bent over to give you a longer shaft to hold deeper if more length is required. Of course a long thin screw with a flat head could be used also.
Any one of these methods would alleviate you from soldering too many joints making it harder to change things if and when you wanted too.
In my prior explanation of connecting two 3' section together and soldering them and then on the two rails of each opposite end you could slip a rail joiner half on each rail and solder them in place but I'd leave the next 3' section free to move in and out of the RJ with temp changes. Also leave a gap of about a 1/16th., of an inch to help allow for expansion and contraction.
Good evening. 46°, cloudy and very windy. Quite a contrast from this afternoon when it was sunny and 64°.
Didn't do a thing today, sort of run out of gas as it was a busy week.
Ken: I went back and found the link to the slag train. Cool. Hope you get enough cars to finish your projects.
Justin: Solder away, the yard looks great. The yard office is just right for the size of the operation. Like the engine house building also. Nice to see something where Coal is still King.
Good Night!
Say Joe: >Laughing at myself, I told you I'd call you Boris yet I still refer to you as Joe! LoL<
I will ask you about the link to the shortened GG1's I think you mentioned prior. I looked back but didn't find a link?
Not the time of night I want to start a project like this. Time for the old flat rate tech inside me to come out and teach the kid!
Got it to come out pretty good, gonna look sweet with four abreast through there!
Line slip and yard ladder are sussing out nicely. Yes, those are terminals, yes, more than one, this time. The yard needed to be big so it will be outside the line slip ladder, it's ok if they need to make another lap before coming in to the yard, it's a "continuous running" set up anyways. The "industry" will be switching to make long strings of no particular lineage to be pulled around for more switching into further abominations of lashups that never were. The last set up was pretty much the same design but this time the yard has moved to the middle instead of being on the end.
