THAT happened on the Reading & Northern on a return trip from Jim Thorpe to Port Clinton on an early Fall Sunday afternoon. When the sheep wandered off the tracks, the train proceeded. There were some Baaaad jokes flying around. Jim Lyle In a message dated 4/29/2012 7:10:48 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, [email protected] writes:
I recall an incident when riding the Frankfort & Cincinnati gas electric. A light rail main line but what could be a branch line. We were clipping along thru a long curving cut thru a farm area. AND WE WENT RIGHT THRU A LARGE FLOCK OF SHEEP. Model that. John Armstrong ----- Original Message ----- From: _empirebuilderjjhill_ (mailto:[email protected]) To: [email protected]_ (mailto:[email protected]) Sent: Sunday, April 29, 2012 5:24 PM Subject: {S-Scale List} Are 'tree-tunnels' allowed on branch lines :-) I realized how funny this sounded while writing it… Anyway, I'm building a module and, after learning that the S-mod forum had effectively shut down, was directed to this forum. The module I'm building is a 48"X38" section of straight track that will feature a spur connecting the club's two track mainline with an initially parallel single track branch line. Picture three parallel tracks with the third track, the branch line, set apart from the other two and connected to the middle track by a spur and two right hand switches. To create the illusion of spacial compression between the two track main and the single track branch, I'm going to put a dense stand of coniferous trees between these. After seeing this along a long industrial siding near my house, I got the idea of "boxing in" the spur with trees to further the illusion of space bet ween the two lines. This "tree tunnel" appears to have been formed as trackside trees were trimmed up to a height of approximately 20' but spread out above this point and eventually the trees on either side of the track merged together at the 20' level, creating a "tunnel" of foliage. Now this occurred along a (presumably privately owned) industrial siding that serves a single business but receives several deliveries a week and where cars are regularly shuffled by a trackmobile, would FRA rules permit the same thing to occur along a slightly used spur? I might be getting a little ahead of myself since I'm still laying homasote, but this'll help me plan my module. __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 7096 (20120429) __________ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. _http://www.eset.com_ (http://www.eset.com/) __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 7096 (20120429) __________ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. _http://www.eset.com_ (http://www.eset.com/)
