A prototype for everything. Bad Track!

[themole]

These Russian trams and track speak for themselves. Alyn

 

[Don Gilham]

Great shots Alyn

Any restrictions on photography ?

 

[vasim]

The 1xx trams (and 08 tram) are Czech built Tatra KT4SU types.
The 2xx trams are Russian built UKVZ (Ust Katav Vagon) KTM-8 types.

 

[Rhinochugger]

I just new there was a prototype for my track laying

 

[trammayo]

Well, there about as dished as dished rail joints get! Looks well used though (looking at the polished rails).

 

[spike]

Well, there about as dished as dished rail joints get! Looks well used though (looking at the polished rails).

Nice pics.....love the track

If you like bumpy track Mick here is the worst I have ever seen.
Driver gets out to check nothings derailed while train continues.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V39JFjexSUk&feature=related

 

[pugwash]

Magic people pay money to go on rides like that at the funfair!

 

[trammayo]

Well, there about as dished as dished rail joints get! Looks well used though (looking at the polished rails).

Nice pics.....love the track

If you like bumpy track Mick here is the worst I have ever seen.
Driver gets out to check nothings derailed while train continues.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V39JFjexSUk&feature=related

I don't think that track was thrown down - more likely it was thrown up in the air first Makes ours (Bord na Mona) look like main line track.

 

[tramcar trev]

We cant match that for bad track. Our worst has to be the Normanton - Croydon line, its bad but by comparison looks like TGV track ...
Mind you that line is the only working museum in Australia that has to run a weekly service from Now where to No where and is jammed to capacity each trip on the weekly services.... weekdays in the dry season they do short runs. In the Wet season the track in places can be under 2-3 metres of water

Heres RM 60 out for a run, if you're up that way send me an IM and I'll give you the drivers phone number and you can liase with him and maybe a bribe will get him to take this magnificent old AEC out for a run....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEOIy7x9SBw&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KcD_wOlX1zI&feature=related

 

[LNERGE]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g11qWro1LzQ

 

[pghewett]

This is the Lobbes-Thuin preserved tramway in Belgium - yes, the track really does just follow the contours so. Condition of track not as good as it seems - just over the brow of the hill, the 4 wheel diesel tram quite obviously had only 3 wheels on the track in places. The ride terminated when the crew felt unable (phew!) to drive through a heap of gravel that some kind householder had had tipped outside their property.

The depot has some less more calming things like this bogie car...

GH

 

[pghewett]

Just for further amusement, the first two pix show some wagons abandoned at Bardh, Kosovo during the civil war; the locals had stolen the white metal bearings. so the wagons simply sat down on the axleboxes with the wheels coming up through the floor. The third shot shows Tirana, Albania, station with the tracks being cleared ready for the arrival of the train*. (Don't have pix of the t

rain itself, as photography was "discouraged" but the rolling stock lacked doors and most windows, and seemingly any brake rodding...).

G

*This could be difficult to model, though

PS My apologies for the failed attempt to insert photos correctly into the text...

 

[ge_rik]

I know gardening is not my greatest strength, but this gives me some hope that everything in garden railways has its prototype:

http://youtu.be/b86QYaVXv5M

Rik

 

[BillyBob128]

Here is a video that may worry any of you who are in Australia:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_Ldkb36Qgc

 

[BillyBob128]

 

[Rob s]

Here is a video that may worry any of you who are in Australia:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_Ldkb36Qgc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_Ldkb36Qgc < Link To http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_Ldkb36Qgc

Nice clip makes a good prototype for a few of
my dodgy Bachmann wheel sets i have been unable to sort
too

 

[Madman]

I know gardening is not my greatest strength, but this gives me some hope that everything in garden railways has its prototype:

http://youtu.be/b86QYaVXv5M

Rik

Somebody ought to market a giant weed whacker to them

 

[tramcar trev]

You can see the perway crew have been busy at Montmorency spreading ballast because if you spread enough ballast it will tend to creep under the track "and fix all the problems"