Re: Misaligned Tracks

["Steve Wise" <swise@aoot.com>]

These alignment problems that you point out aren't causing derailments, are
they?

Granted, they might look bad, but we have worse problems with the diamond
and switches in the siding & siding-transition modules methinks...



----- Original Message -----
From: "Ira Schneider" <ira_schneider@Iname.com>
To: "TTAT Members" <ttat-members@aoot.com>
Sent: Tuesday, October 02, 2001 8:07 AM
Subject: Misaligned Tracks


> I was looking at the pictures I took over the weekend and found that I had
taken some pictures from the end
> of the yard.  These pictures clearly show some horrible misalignment in
the tracks, both on the club's ABCE
> modules and on the brand new yard modules.
>
> Attached are a couple of representative pictures.  "Misaligned Tracks.jpg"
shows an overall picture of
> the yard.  You can see many examples of misaligned tracks.  I copied some
higher resolution sections
> so you can see the details.  "Detail 1.jpg" and "Detail 2.jpg" show
misalignments in the ABCE modules.
> "Detail 3.jpg" shows a bad wiggle in the new yard extension modules.
>
> It looks to me that the problem is caused by sloppy placement of tracks on
the modules, since most
> of the misalignments occur in the bridge tracks between the modules.
However, I also saw what appears
> to be a bad wiggle within one of the yard transition modules itself.
>
>
> Ira
>
>