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Geezer
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mabloodhound
Fireman
USA
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 Posted - 04/01/2012 : 09:10:22 AM
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| Nice work Bill. I do like the mine and all. |
Dave Mason
D&G RR (Dunstead & Granford) in On30
“Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.”~Benjamin Franklin
The 2nd Amendment, America’s 1st Homeland Security
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Tommatthews
Fireman
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Posted - 04/01/2012 : 10:25:43 AM
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Geezer,
It is going to be a very nice view ... |
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Frederic Testard
Engineer
France
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Posted - 04/01/2012 : 12:28:37 PM
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| Bill, this mine is going to have a very impressive trestle connection. Very nice. |
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Geezer
Fireman
USA
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BigLars
Fireman
USA
7372 Posts |
Posted - 04/01/2012 : 1:51:08 PM
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| Oh I vote tall lean bents that shake when the lory and cars cross over. A sound module under it with creeks and groans... |
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Tommatthews
Fireman
7282 Posts |
Posted - 04/01/2012 : 1:59:47 PM
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Dear annomous,
I disagree with using smaller bents. Perhaps the cross members could be smaller but the bents need to be strong enough to with stand the height.
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kirk
Fireman
Sweden
4526 Posts |
Posted - 04/01/2012 : 2:31:12 PM
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| I love the new developments! Stay off the fishing and keep it coming! |
Troels Kirk
Näsum, Sweden
http://coastline.no13.se |
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Rick
Administrator
USA
17743 Posts |
Posted - 04/01/2012 : 2:52:43 PM
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Far from being a bent expert (although I've been told to get one numerous times) I see nothing wrong with yours.
My suggestion is to follow Troels' advice and "keep it coming". |
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Hopeless
Fireman
USA
1250 Posts |
Posted - 04/01/2012 : 6:41:29 PM
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I agree. I wouldn't change anything.
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milocomarty
Fireman
Netherlands
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Ray Dunakin
Crew Chief
USA
827 Posts |
Posted - 04/02/2012 : 12:00:49 AM
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Since you're asking for opinions, here's my two cents...
The size of the timbers looks ok to me but I think there are too many legs on the bents. Even most standard gauge trestles I've seen only have five legs, not six. For a small mining tram, four or five at the most would be plenty, depending on the gauge of track and size of the loco and cars. You could even go with just three legs per bent. For example, here are some pics of a trestle at the Nivloc mine in Nevada. The track was only about 15" gauge, and I don't know whether they had any motive power or just pushed the ore cars across by hand:
Here's one at the Noonday Mines in the Mojave desert, which only had two legs per bent! This track was quite long and served several mines, so they must have had some sort of motive power:
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andykins
Fireman
United Kingdom
3893 Posts |
Posted - 04/02/2012 : 03:06:23 AM
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| the mine is looking great, and i like the bents as is just a few cross members to stop it swaying about |
"Is it really "rivet counting" if it's regarding NBW castings?"
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CieloVistaRy
Fireman
USA
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Posted - 04/02/2012 : 10:15:18 AM
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| I like this scene- it's very interesting. Looking forward to seeing how it looks when it's finished. |
Arthur
Cielo Vista Railway (on30) |
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Geezer
Fireman
USA
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