You can simplify your model of modeling gauntlet rails by not making the switch points movable. Just use the mainline and weigh your cars.
Thorin --- In [email protected], "raisinone" <raisinone@...> wrote: Scales are also great opportunities to model gauntlet rails. Maybe less so today but 30+ years ago, scales could not handle the weight of a locomotive so many were installed with gauntlet rails to bypass the engine weigh. It also kept long cuts of cars that did not need weighing from passing directly over the scale's machinery. A Terre Haute chemical derivatives plant (my first job out of college) had a scale within the plant for weighing cars we loaded as well as inbound coal loads for the boiler house. The local railroad (NYC/PC/CR) provided the switching. I remember seeing scale test cars (similar to the SWM S Scale version) there on occasion to test/calibrate the scale. In Milwaukee, there was a scale, with a gauntlet rail, in the yard at the end of the "Beer Line". I believe it was used mainly to weigh cars of spent grain (remember the "grain door" discussions!?!?) being shipped out by Pabst, Schlitz and Blatz. As Andre said, a great modeling opportunity in a small space... Jim Kindraka --- In [email protected], "ctxmf74" <ctxm@> wrote: Sounds like it might be realistic to add ...> ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
