What is this?

[chuck geiger]

Need to model for module. I can't figure out what it is, spare rail or old handcart set out?

[propmeup1]

I think it's the later.

[Missaberoad]

Spare rail is my guess... There's another at Willaha that looks identical...

[Angus Shops]

I’d go with hand car set out, but most of the ones I’ve seen used timbers rather than rail and the timbers ended much closer to the track.

[chuck geiger]

We have a winner...spare rail...Need to have rail sitting on timbers, not ties?





A close up of Anita, which I didn't catch in my gallery.

[chuck geiger]

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[chuck geiger]

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[John]

This is great info .. I have a bunch of old C55 rail laying around that I can't use .. going to cut them to 33'   39' lengths and rust them up

[chuck geiger]

That's what I'm doing today...Mix up some c-40 and c-55 I have lying around in a box. I have some strip wood that
I use for tie stacks gonna get them bleached out and splintered.

[chuck geiger]

John any reason they are a specific length?

[DKS]

John any reason they are a specific length?

It's a standard length for sticks of rail.

[John]

John any reason they are a specific length?

39' is what is generally used in the US -- but when I visited the Huntington yard many years ago to they used 80' lengths to make the ribbon rail common these days ..






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[cv_acr]

weird they would place spare rails at 90deg to the tracks....

[m_nanson]

weird they would place spare rails at 90deg to the tracks....

That is so the claw crane that picks the rail up off the car or roadbed dose not have to pivot the rail.  Just grab lift, and swing the crane arm, then drop.  One less operation on the controls so slightly faster but a lazy way to do it. 

Mike.
 

[nkalanaga]

Mike:  I was wondering the same thing, but it makes sense. 

Years ago, it would be unloaded by the track gang, using rail tongs, so it was natural to place the rails parallel to the track (and the car it was unloaded from).  Technology has even changed the scenery we need to build!