Large Scale Central

And you think your track work is bad

Prototypes
#1

Remarks: No, this is not unlevel. No, this is not a derailment. Yes, the right of way needs some work. Here we see a Maumee & Western Railway westbound train stopped briefly to make certain they do not have any cars on the ground. Luckily it was a “false alarm” in the words of a crewman. The train was amazingly able to continue west to the yard and CSX interchange at Defiance, Ohio. The locomotive is M&W affiliate road Connersville & New Castle #5, a former Santa Fe GP7 rebuild. The railroad is a former Wabash line from Toledo, Ohio to Woodburn, Indiana.

#2

Harmonic rocking big time. That’s pretty bad track work although it looks somewhat exaggerated with the telephoto lens…

#3

C’mon Ken, admit it. Ya Photoshopped that image :slight_smile:

#4

What’s wrong with that trackwork? Looks good enough for gummint work. :stuck_out_tongue:

#5

Atlas Shrugged.

#6

Pretty bad even if it is at 300mm zoom.

#7

Some where there is a video of that train. at one point the front end pitches so bad it actually digs up dirt on the side.

#8
Terry Burr said:
Some where there is a video of that train. at one point the front end pitches so bad it actually digs up dirt on the side.
There are a few on Youtube. This one is HD with great audio if you love slow & noisy trains...

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0TaNeam-J-g[/youtube]

Most of the others by this author are clips taken from this one. I didn’t see anything quite as bad as the still photo though.