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Can't Keep It Straight
Life during a KAMRI open house can be full of surprises. Something as simple as running trains can go a bit haywire to say the least.
Question 1: What is the effect of a long cold winter period of very low humidity on wood? Answer 1: It shrinks! Question 2: What is the effect of a good heating system on metal? Answer 2: It swells! Therefore the tie breaking question: What is the effect on a KAMRI open house? And the answer is: Derailments, uncouplings, and picked switches! How may you ask does this happen? Well the wood module shrinks and the tracks swell. This builds up just like two tectonic plates trying to slide by each other. Therefore something just has to give. Well it did. ![]() ![]() Here's a pair of photos taken of a couple of the trouble spots to feed your curiosity.
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Re: Can't Keep It Straight
same thing happend in my N scale. but not in my HO yet. good luck fixing it.
-jake |
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Re: Can't Keep It Straight
You may need steel benchwork! I'll send you photos of mine if you are interested.
Bob Nicklow |
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Re: Can't Keep It Straight
Alas! These shots are of club modules that have been in service for well over ten years in many different environments. This is the first time for this amount of shrink wrath.
![]() Food for thought! The n-scalers way. ![]()
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