Large Scale Central

Pole road RR

General Discussion
#1

I was playing around on different logging Railroad sites and I came across this shot. Be neat to incorperate something like this onto a garden RR. Wont have to buy track.

#2

Yup - They were cool, but switches ar a bear :smiley:

#3

Battery, and Radio control would be a help too…

#4
Jon Radder said:
Yup - They were cool, but switches ar a bear :D
Stub turnouts shouldn't be THAT hard.????
#5
Fred Mills said:
Battery, and Radio control would be a help too.....
or use 1/2" copper pipe for rails!
#6
Mik said:
Jon Radder said:
Yup - They were cool, but switches ar a bear :D
Stub turnouts shouldn't be THAT hard.????
I was thinking that, but how do you do a frog with a flange on both sides of the pole?

Maybe you do it without a frog and put a short movable piece on a center pivot where the rails cross. More to line up, but it would work.

And Bob’s idea of pipe for rail would be good too. Copper is too expensive so I’d use PEX water line or small diameter PVC conduit and go with Fred on Battery Power.

#7

Hmmmm, a 10 inch pipe would be pretty close to scale in 1:20.3. I could probably find those pulley at Ric’s Marina.

#8
Steve Featherkile said:
Hmmmm, a 10 inch pipe would be pretty close to scale in 1:20.3. I could probably find those pulley at Ric's Marina.
Is your calculator dropping decimal points again ??
#9

I did this on the fly, still trying to dry out the calcal8r. What should it be? I’ve got the beginning of a migraine, at least that is my story, and I’m sticking to it. :smiley:

#10

I dunno what what should be, but a 10 inch pipe would scale out to somewhere around 17 Feet in 1:20 (203 inches).

Now, if you meant the pole was about 10 inches in real life, that I could agree with. Convert that down to 1:20 and you would be looking at pipe diameter of about a 1/2 inch. Very doable.

#11

Sorry, Jon, I guess I wasn’t clear…, again…

I was responding to Bob’s post about a half inch copper pipe track. My thought was that it would scale out to about a 10 inch pipe in 1:1 if the scale of 1:20.3 was used. Did I get it right this time? Waiting for the Relpax to kick in…

#12

I wanna know how they curved the poles.
Looked for curved trees? :slight_smile: :slight_smile:

Pex you can curve.
Copper you need a bender.

#13

Now all we need is somebody to make the wheels and we can build PVC rails. I can afford 1/2 PVC pipe.
Ralph

#14
John Bouck said:
I wanna know how they curved the poles.
They had a Tree-Li bender, of course
#15

OK Steve - Now I get it Gotta stop assuming that posts without a quote are meant to stand on their own :smiley:

John Bouck said:
I wanna know how they curved the poles. Looked for curved trees? :) :)

Pex you can curve.
Copper you need a bender.


Small transition angles should work using all straight. I’m guessing the logs these roads used weren’t perfectly straight or of uniform diameter either. With two flanges you can tolerate a lot of slop in the gauge.

#16
Jon Radder said:
Small transition angles should work using all straight. I'm guessing the logs these roads used weren't perfectly straight or of uniform diameter either. With two flanges you can tolerate a lot of slop in the gauge.
And, they proly had mules to hep out!
#17
Ralph Berg said:
Now all we need is somebody to make the wheels and we can build PVC rails. I can afford 1/2 PVC pipe. Ralph
you could probably use pulleys for wheels.
#18

I thought we weren’t allowed to use that word here :smiley:

#19

With the Stomper conversions you guys did in the past I’d think you’d have enough wheel hubs to make the wheels.
Dave

#20

I was supposed to keep those wheels ? DANG