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Originally Posted by Brother_Love:

I would love to model some track like this in O scale. I tried to find Rich's instructional post about imbedding video but I was unsuccessful.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2SDYMwINuQ

Neat track,not that I'd model it.I have enough trouble trying to keep my track "from" looking like that.Lol What happened to those super looking MTH paper boxcars? I thought they'd run more of them eventually.(?)

The late Ed Reutling (sure do miss you Ed) did a stretch of track of that ilk. I am pretty sure he posted a video of it here on the 2 rail forum. From what I can see of most of the MODEL versions of this track, I think the important thing is to keep it symmetrical from side to side, in other words, each rail and it's right or left counterpart was pretty much identical had they been laid beside one another. The rails were always in gauge with each other even though they zigged and zagged about.

Simon

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Simon, I am not sure if this was the same person you mentioned but many, many years ago in Model Railroader there was an article of a guy who modeled bad track, rail and ties. He also worked on the trucks of the cars and maybe the engines too to add more to the rocking action of the bad track. It was very impressive. It was like looking at the real thing......Paul

Simon Winter posted:

The late Ed Reutling (sure do miss you Ed) did a stretch of track of that ilk. I am pretty sure he posted a video of it here on the 2 rail forum.

He did and it was good fun to watch his trains trundle about over that terrible looking track.

From what I can see of most of the MODEL versions of this track, I think the important thing is to keep it symmetrical from side to side, in other words, each rail and it's right or left counterpart was pretty much identical had they been laid beside one another. The rails were always in gauge with each other even though the zigged and zagged about.

Yes, just need to keep it all parallel....which for many folks is a difficult objective to meet.

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paul 2 posted:

Simon, I am not sure if this was the same person you mentioned but many, many years ago in Model Railroader there was an article of a guy who modeled bad track, rail and ties. He also worked on the trucks of the cars and maybe the engines too to add more to the rocking action of the bad track. It was very impressive. It was like looking at the real thing......Paul

Paul,

I am pretty sure what Ed did was posted on this forum!

 

mwb posted:
Simon Winter posted:

The late Ed Reutling (sure do miss you Ed) did a stretch of track of that ilk. I am pretty sure he posted a video of it here on the 2 rail forum.

He did and it was good fun to watch his trains trundle about over that terrible looking track.

From what I can see of most of the MODEL versions of this track, I think the important thing is to keep it symmetrical from side to side, in other words, each rail and it's right or left counterpart was pretty much identical had they been laid beside one another. The rails were always in gauge with each other even though the zigged and zagged about.

Yes, just need to keep it all parallel....which for many folks is a difficult objective to meet.

Martin,

That is actually a BETTER description of what I was going for!

Simon

After building and operating the proto-freelance OW5 Chemung Northern RR in the Boston area, for well over 30 years...

http://mrr.trains.com/videos/l...thern-model-railroad

...in retirement the late D. Ben Brown dismantled, sold off that RR, and moved to Seneca, SC where he embarked upon building the prototype Maine Central's Eastport Branch, in P48.

One of the primary features he emphasized was the MEC's poorly maintained trackwork, with buried and sunken ties, missing spikes, tie plates, bad alignment and questionable gauging. 

Here's a view of the MEC's actual engine house @ Eastport. 

Ben documented everything he did on his blog/web page at https://dbenbrown.com 

Unfortunately, with his demise no one has maintained the site, and being wordpress-based, it has been compromised and is now unreachable. Even so, Ben proved that decrepit, poorly maintained track is a really viable thing, especially in 1/4", and if carefully executed, can be operated very reliably. 

Matt Forsyth

http://mattforsyth.com/ 

Simon Winter posted:

The late Ed Reutling (sure do miss you Ed)...

Simon

You and me both.

Some time ago, there had been some discussion on the O Scale Modelers Yahoo Group (which Ed moderated) regarding modeling bad track. The general consensus was that if you ran locomotives and rolling stock with equalized trucks (the frames swivel on the cross beam) they'd have little trouble with uneven track and would even develop a bit of a rocking motion without derailing.

My layout has always been an industrial layout since 1988 with messy track but it also had to be reliable because it also has always been an operational layout i don't accept derailments.

I also enjoyed playing with the layout before I made changes and still do although now retired I can make changes much quicker than when I was working.

Here are some older photos back when it was part of New York Harbour theme with my limited budget I could never afford a video camera would rather buy a loco. Roo

Bay Ridge Final 002Bay Ridge Trackwork Changes 010Long Siding Extension 008Long Siding Extension 013Old shed 002Bay Ridge Trackwork Changes 001

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Chris and Matt...I was fortunate enough to visit Bens railroad in MA. several times and operated on it as well. Ben was a gentleman and came down to visit my railroad too and gave me some good input which I value even more now that he's no longer with us. Matt I was following his Maine Central Blog right up until he passed...saw you did too in fact. Miss Ben a lot.

Bob

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