A blog following the building of an model railroad in HO scale. The railway is set in the Laurentian Mountains of North-East of Ontario/ North-West Quebec. The place names are taken from those along the Canadian Pacific Railway Temiskaming subdivision that ran from Mattawa Ontario to Angeliers Quebec. The era is shortly after the conversion to diesel. Some steam can still be seen and Shay engines work the logging portions of the road.
Tuesday, November 16, 2010
Shoring up the line
The curve at the bottom of the Moose Rock Grade developed a negative superelevation, (Not sure there is such a thing ) but what was happening was the train leaned outwards instead of inwards when going around the curve. The outside rail had to be elevated to provide a superelevation. To do this a structure of logs, ties, gravel and dirt was constructed to hold up the rail thrugh the curve.
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