Large Scale Central

Time lapse of track replacement.

Track and Trestles
#1

The wife found this on Wimp. Its in San Francisco, 3 1/2 days, $1M later. Pertty Cool.

http://wimp.com/railwaytracks/

#2

All I see is a mold inspection advert in the window, but the link works fine

Seen this, it is very interesting and the initial music from Pee Wees Big Adventure really fits it.

The videographer happened to live right above this and just set up the camera in his window.

Thanks

#3

[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/15780202[/vimeo]

#4

WOW, cool video…

#5

glad that wasn’t outside my window. That musta been makin a heckova racket …:wink:

#6

That was pretty cool

#7

I really enjoyed that thanks for sharing.

Don

#8

Why was the track replaced?

#9

Joe, I think that when track is concreted in like that, you can’t get to it to do normal track maintiance. Those are some sharp curves and that would take it’s toll on the rail. My guess would be that it just plane was worn out.

#10

I “experienced” delays when making the mistake of trying to get to a friends house during the construction.

Here’s a bit of info on the project -

http://sf.streetsblog.org/2010/10/12/eyes-on-the-street-replacing-the-rails-on-the-j-church-lin/

#11

An interesting video. I couldn’t help but notice they would set the track and tear it up and reset it, then adjust it then tear it up and do it over again.

Plus, they have a tester car too. Just like many of us do.

#12

Jake Smith said:

An interesting video. I couldn’t help but notice they would set the track and tear it up and reset it, then adjust it then tear it up and do it over again.

Plus, they have a tester car too. Just like many of us do.

They’re not tearing it back up, its all in sections, just like our track, so they place it, measure it against the adjacent section, move it, cut it, put it back, then when all the sections are correct the either bolt the sections together or use thermite to weld the sections together. Then it gets ballasted then tamped and leveled.

What I like is how this looks just like LGB track sections being put together by a tiny army of constructions workers, but its very similar to the way we use sectional track, minus the concrete roadway of course.

Interesting how they use a second whole rail for the inner guard rails, guess its just easier to do with stock track then get a custom made track rail with the guard flange built in.