Re: From the Casey Jones High Railers

[rbd1949@aol.com]

Scott,

 

I think you saw the Fort Pitt HiRailers at York. They are up in Pittsburgh.

 

The Casey Jones HiRailers are in Memphis. Both seem to have used the same standards though. This is the group with the lift bridge that has the special vertical hinges.

 

Here is a couple pics of it.

 

~Ricky

 

 





 

- The module over all length is 4 feet
- The module is 2ft wide at its widest point
- The module is 3 3/4 inche high (1X4)
- The bridge itself is 16 inches wide
- The lift section bridge is 36 inches long
- The area of the lift up section where the control house is located is 7 inches long.
- There is a 12 inch section connecting the back of the bridge module to the next module.
- The midule is made of oak, it is heavy, but will stand up to the stress of set up, tear down and storage.

-----Original Message-----
From: Scott A Smiley <sc.smiley@juno.com>
To: ttat-members@aoot.com
Sent: Tue, Jun 15, 2010 10:51 pm
Subject: Re: From the Casey Jones High Railers

I think that these were the guys I saw in York.  They said that they run 100 car trains regularly.  They have all the couplers zip tied to avoid break aways.    they do not use bridge track but do have a way to adjust the position of the track as it buts up against each other.    They also have some meanders of all tracks through a few modules.  Their yard in all inside the layout and accesses only track 3 and then switches out to others.  You can see a wood lip on most of the module edges.    Looks like short jumper wires between the modules.  they have no pins connecting track so all power is in the wires. 

 

On Mon, 14 Jun 2010 23:15:11 -0400 rbd1949@aol.com writes:

 

After the local TCA meet back in April we moved our modular layout back to a local businesss that allows Memphis area train clubs to use its unfinished space.

Our membership has grown to the point where it became necessary to build a second staging yard inside of the layout. This will give us the ability to stage six trains during our shows. This expantion also added four feet to the lingth of the layout. Work on this addition should be complete next weekend.

Here are a few pictures.

This is the new module with the lead going to a 4 way Ross switch that will access the staging yard. This module will also have a switch allowing us to add a track for an engine service area.







Here is the new four foot moduel added to the other side of the layout. Zena and David just about completed laying the track this weekend.





There will be two six foot modules at the end of the new staging yard. Zena and David also made a lot of prgress on these two modules this weekend.



Moving the layout to add the mew modules.



Finally, here are some pictures of our hill top train station and platform. Light posts will be added to the platform soon.




Thanks for looking.

Richard, and the Casey Jones High Railers

 

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