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| On Wed, 8 Mar 2000, Larry Pieniazek (<Fr34wr.101@lugnet.com>) wrote at 04:10:03 (...) I have an image in my mind of a thing like a switch, but it's just a break in one rail, so that if it's open, the stock will fall off, but if it's closed, it just (...) (25 years ago, 8-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| (...) Yes. I believe this is how derails used to be done a long time ago. But doing it this way requires actual trackwork, in that a section of rail needs to be removed, and some very precise relaying of track (with plates below to support the (...) (25 years ago, 8-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| (...) Derails also have to be installed on the correct side of the track. If they are on a siding or industrial track they are installed on the rail of that track that is furthest from the main, that way the wheels are lifted up, over the rail, and (...) (25 years ago, 8-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| At the edge of my memory, I can remember, as a kit, hearing a news story about derailers being stolen. It made the news as the items stolen were explosive in nature. I assume it would be a small charge which would be set off by the train/carriage (...) (25 years ago, 8-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| (...) I believe those are "track torpedoes" which are (were) set out several hundred (thousand) yards behind a train stopped on or fouling the main. They detonate with an explosive sound when train wheels go over them, thus making an audible (...) (25 years ago, 8-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| (...) Yep, if you have a Peco stockist closeby you can see them, they are called "catch points" in English railroading, and are built exactly like that, usually leading into a large box of sand. James P (25 years ago, 8-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains)
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