Large Scale Central

Least-maintenance track for track-powered operation?

OK , Nickel Silver coated with ATF .
Mike

Like I told Tim in an e-mail, and I quote:

“Like saying MAICO paint jobs on your car never need cleaning.
Stuff tends to come from above and lay upon the flat parts.”

That’s given me an idea .
I shall design a system that has pickups on the underside . Yes , something in that . Or the sides .
Mike

Already been done.
And, just so the Polk Folk don’t claim it, I’ll say we invented it.
How’s that?

Catenary is one.

Geez, pickup on the underside…

And, secondly, outside third with a cover, like subways…

Joking aside , Dave , you raise an interesting point there .
You may have seen the Tube trains in London . They have no cover over the third rail underground or overground .
Even the ones exported to the Isle of Wight do not have a covered third rail , and that is a surface job .
They do have some thumping great batteries on board though . Presumably back up in case of power failure .
Perhaps that thing I’ve seen the driver using ,like a mobile telephone , is a disguised R/C controller .
A long while back , I had catenary working intermittently in the garden . I took it out for two reasons ,first because it was intermittent ,caused by the muck running round the wire and gathering on the bottom . Second , cats ,for some odd reason , took it into their heads to knock it over every chance they got . Being a cat lover–it is not illegal here–
I refrained from a .22 pellet up the bum as a cure ,but latterly had to install a cattle fence to deter them and the hedgehogs . I ran the EHT down the rails . They didn’t need cleaning for it to work . The area adjacent did after
though .
Mike