My track is practically perfect compared to this!

[beavercreek]

Having checked the effects of the ravages of winter on my track I then saw this on Youtube. :bleh:
I feel a lot better about my line now
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g11qWro1LzQ&feature=g-vrec&context=G209b56dRVAAAAAAAACQ < Link To http://www.youtube.com/wa...t=G209b56dRVAAAAAAAACQ

 

[KeithT]

It beggars belief esp' when you consider the damage it must do to the tyres.
The track looks to be about the same Code as LGB!!
On the one occasion I was in the States I saw a piece of mainline track in Chicago Union station where the whole of the inside of the top 'flange' of rail had rusted away and was peeling off in a huge curve leaving only the web.

 

[Don Gilham]

Makes mine look more realistic

 

[beavercreek]

Certainly adds truth to the song lyric..
'Casey Jones, a rockin' and a rollin'
Only that was supposed to be set nearly a hundred years previously to the line in the vid!

If our lines were that bad our locos and rolling-stock would derail all over the place. Shows what weight can do to keep things on the line.

here's another one
Nice collection of Geeps
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAGW4zZoMB4

and another
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rm2UMShf4Rs&feature=endscreen < Link To http://www.youtube.com/wa...&feature=endscreen

 

[maxi-model]

Have you seen the US video on the Poath Archive channel on YouTube where they set out to deliberatly derail a train ? It is amazing how much it track destruction it takes before the inevitable happens. It has been posted on this site before, not o long ago.
Max.

 

[Rhinochugger]

While these are extreme, you just have to watch our own trains and undergrounds rocking and roling on the track.

It's only the tight radii that means we have to have such out of scale flanges.

Having been forced to observe 1:1 stuff over the past couple of years, I'm quite sanguin about my own permanent way standards.

I did have to superelevate another curve where the Kat insisted on driving the VW drasine flat out - as in flat out across the lawn

 

[ge_rik]

Did you also see this one which was shown in the list of related videos alongside:

http://youtu.be/r0zh0xAhANo W...f equivalent to a dead-man's pedal? Rik

 

[pghewett]

In BR days, we used to snigger at the story of the stationary box car that derailed in the US, but now I'm not so sure...

Graham Hewett

 

[beavercreek]

http://youtu.be/r0zh0xAhANo

Why don't they have some sort of equivalent to a dead-man's pedal?

Rik

Yes it is a good one Rik...life imitating art (or maybe the other way around), the recent film 'Unstoppable' springs to mind.

With all the vids I posted and the ones from you lads together with the accounts of our own British track, I am looking at my layout track with pride and will just say it is 'prototypical' when a 'bad' section might creep in!

 

[bobg]

Looks like 'inertia' has got something going for it.

Which reminds me, I better try and overcome mine this morning.

 

[Gizzy]

Having checked the effects of the ravages of winter on my track I then saw this on Youtube. :bleh:
I feel a lot better about my line now
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g11qWro1LzQ&feature=g-vrec&context=G209b56dRVAAAAAAAACQ < Link To http://www.youtube.com/wa...t=G209b56dRVAAAAAAAACQ

Seen this one before!

Quite incredible how the loco bounces across the dips, without derailing.

My mainline straights are predominantly LGB 10610 1200mm (4ft) track sections, and the rigidity of LGB track copes well with the dips after frost heave.

Wasn't so much the case when I had LGB 10000 300mm (1ft) sections; not only did the track follow the dips but it always looked higgly-piggly instead of straight.
A fortunate purchase of cheap LGB 10610s from Sheringham (I also got some for MMTS when he was building his layout) not only meant I could double track my line, but I could confine the short LGB 10000 to the sidings....

 

[beavercreek]

Having checked the effects of the ravages of winter on my track I then saw this on Youtube. :bleh:
I feel a lot better about my line now
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g11qWro1LzQ&feature=g-vrec&context=G209b56dRVAAAAAAAACQ < Link To http://www.youtube.com/wa...t=G209b56dRVAAAAAAAACQ

Wasn't so much the case when I had LGB 10000 300mm (1ft) sections; not only did the track follow the dips but it always looked higgly-piggly instead of straight.

I have used mainly 1.5m flexible track and 4' lengths (some cut to length) together with the 20ft or 16ft curves. Nearly all have been 'bent' into the shape to follow around the garden. I have noticed that the frost-heave is worse in certain 'frost pockets' in the garden and this has caused the track to follow the movement. It is worse at joins and I now use clamps to keep the joints as flat as possible. This year does not seem to be as bad as last year.
Anyway, I now will never worry when I see my locos or rolling-stock 'rocking and rolling' : ....except for the infuriating 'bobble' as they pass over the LGB points :wits:

 

[Rhinochugger]

except for the infuriating 'bobble' as they pass over the LGB points :wits:

No different to the lurch on the District line trains as they enter Ravenscourt Park westbound I can assure you

 

[beavercreek]

except for the infuriating 'bobble' as they pass over the LGB points :wits:

No different to the lurch on the District line trains as they enter Ravenscourt Park westbound I can assure you

I used to travel on the District line from Wimbledon and there were 'interesting' movements as the tube came into the station across the many point possibilities.

 

[pghewett]

Then again, there's Russian track laying - from my last visit, the attached are quite good by their standards...

Graham Hewett

 

[Gizzy]

Then again, there's Russian track laying - from my last visit, the attached are quite good by their standards...

Graham Hewett

Too true!

The rails are too far apart for starters....

 

[The Devonian]

If you are able to get down to ground level andhave a decent length of straight track, then take a photograph looking along your track. Preferably a 'telescopic' shot, of the type seen in the videos.
You may be surprised at the outcome.

 

[beavercreek]

How true
The following photos are showing the result, not only of any 'natural' ground shift but also of my weight when walking about on the track!
This area has seen the worst of the track 'wobbles'. It looks worse than it is, I promise.

This area is a little newer and has 'begun' the settling process

 

[The Devonian]

You're a brave man Ghungha Dhin!
Thanks for taking the trouble, Mike, to put a pic to my comments. Whilst our track may be still in gauge it does show how track shifts in ballast. At least in looks prototypical of the more lightly used railroads, not many of us are into Class 1 (USA).

 

[beavercreek]

Yes, Alan, I must admit that my line began as being more narrow gauge but became a mixture with a 'local' line (narrow gauge) and a mainline (sometimes, it too,is also used as a narrow gauge thoroughfare). It is the 'local' narrow gauge line (the left two tracks in the first picture that has the most 'interesting' track 'irregularities'. The mainlines are standing up much better to the onslaught of time.