Filling between the rails

tramcar trev

tramcar trev

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Paving between the rails continues at a cracking pace but I fear I will run out of pavers, there are 400 of them to the lineal metre of single track. Do I have enough?
Well I tried to work out how many I need, I couldn?t be bothered counting them individually so I weighed them. There are exactly 10 stones in 13gms. I have 4527gms so if I divide 4527 by 13 that will give me the number I have in 10?s ?Now watch this carefully Wilson, its British workmanship in action? that gives me 348 or 3480 stones, divide that by 400, being the number of stones per lineal metre gives me 8.7 metres??Sadly nowhere near enough, there is about 11.6m to sort out?. I?ll have to investigate other surface treatments. There is around 3 metres of track in front of the terrace houses that are not there yet. I mean the site is reserved for a row of terrace houses. Maybe that could be either a dirt road or a tarred road with flange grooves in it?.
And in other news?. Sorry I have to get back to the cobblestones, only another 3480 to lay??



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Wonderful:thumbup: Inspirational Trev.
 
What a load of [strike]cobblers[/strike] cobblestones!
It looks amazing Trev. I am in awe of your persistence...........:clap:
 
Thanks Chaps... I'm sure it will be rewarding when I get it done. Its slow work I can do about 300mm in an hour before I loose my patience, my eyes go funny and I get a headache:@8D&::o:8|:-
 
Impressive Trev....
 
Looks fantastic. Now, tell me once more, why you don't need a gaurd rail in the frog? I know you have tried to beat it into my head before, but you have no idea how dense it can be.
 
It has a certain rural charm about it..:bigsmile:
 
Madman said:
Looks fantastic. Now, tell me once more, why you don't need a gaurd rail in the frog? I know you have tried to beat it into my head before, but you have no idea how dense it can be.
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Ok well it's like this; I wanted to use Grooved or Girder rail, I was even at one time contemplating having some tram rail extruded to my demanding specifications but due to cost factors ( I would have had to have sold my wife to pay for it) and problems associated with "scale" ie the width of the groove I didn't go down that road. If we look at full size practise the frog is usually a cast or forged 'insert' and the guard rail is the groove itself. Real trams actually run on the flange through pointwork but after a bit of experimenting it became clear that as my frogs are so "short" that no guard rail was needed and the actual inside of the "stone work" sort of acts as a guard rail. I do have a section of guard rail on one very sharp downhill corner but because of the way over scale flanges on the wheels its been moved as the flanges catch on it and tend to ride up over it causing a derailment. So the short answer is that "Rule 8" is applied here.... Basically it was all just to hard to replicate, strewth the paving is a big enough headache....

Oh and check out the tram No 198, anyone know anything about it? Yet another example on my to build list. Its in Geelong approaching another marvel of the era a railway xing....Fortunatley I don't have to replicate a tram / rail Xing, they used to have a brilliant elctro mechanical overhead frog that "switched" the power from 600VDC for trams to 1500VDC for trains, as a lad I served a term as office boy to an attorneys firm... ahhh actually I was on a tram from Wattle Park in Melbourne to the City and there are rail Xings on the route. The bizzo failed and pumped 1500VDC into the tramway overhead..... All I knew about it was that the tram lurched forward at great speed for a few seconds and bumped into the one in front of it, and the one behind into ours etc... we were delayed for sometime untill the "Braid" arrived to sort it out... see I'm reminiscing again when I should be outside laying stones, I may apply to De Beers for a job as a stone setter " and in your resume it says that in your career you have set around 5000 stones......"


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Look at the pictures and you can see what I'm talking about....

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MRail said:
tramcar trev said:
...the terrace houses that are not there yet. I mean the site is reserved for a row of terrace houses...
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Maybe a bit like this, Trev?
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I can see at some stage I'm going to have to fork out for an airfare for you....
 
Woderwick said:
One thing that strikes me about old pictures, tidyness and the absence of litter.
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Less is more. Back in those days there was less to throw away, so everything was more clean.
 
In so far as litter, well people had respect for their neighbours back then (they actually talked to them). Secondly, no fast food take aways back then. A hamburger at the local milkbar was a luxury not an everyday item. While a greater percentage of the population actually smoked back then, numerically there were not enough people as now adays throwing butts away to cause a litter nuisance. Alcohol was usually served in public houses so less need for cans to trash the neighbourhood. Children drank milk so no cans of 'V', 'Red Bull', 'Coke', etc for unruly sugar crazed juveniles to thoughtlessly throw away.

Storekeepers actually had to package items. Everything came in bulk and the store keeper would weigh out the non-tinned groceries in brown paper bags. Biscuits came in large tins and were repackaged in the store. My dad was a storekeeper and after work or during a lull in serving in the store, items such as biscuits, flour, sugar, tea, etc., would be packaged and weighed out and put on the shelf. Fish used to be wrapped in recycled newspapers so 'litter' actually had a money value.
 
Yeah and I remember my Dad scooping up horse poo off the street for the garden....
 
tramcar trev said:
Yeah and I remember my Dad scooping up horse poo off the street for the garden....
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But I bet you custard (instead) for the Rhubarb:rolf::rolf::rolf:
 
Woderwick said:
One thing that strikes me about old pictures, tidyness and the absence of litter.
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Wod, what are you inferring :rolleyes: you don't expect people to pick up there rubbish do you :rolleyes:

Like the oike who just chucked his rubbish over my fence :angry::angry:

By the way. I like the pics in post 12 :thumbup:
 
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