Gizzy
A gentleman, a scholar, and a railway modeller....
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Wheel Flange Rub: bad gauge or a fact of life?
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I live in the USA, 35 miles from USA Trains. I have not had any issues with my R1 track or my 29 inch diameter circle (one piece of 8 foot rail bent to a circle). I did have issues with the USA Trains metal wheels as these had no sideways movement and would ride up on the rails, so I place these in my shop vise and 'squeeze' the wheels tighter to be more like the LGB wheels. The LGB metal wheels do have a lot of side to side play on rolling stock.
schienenkönig
I'm a tram enthusiast and have made trams Scale G
In March 2015, before Easter, our scouting layout was in an empty shop. But without a driver's cab. There, a tram with a trailer makes its rounds.
It runs on a timer every day from 10 am to 7 pm. It takes 38 seconds to complete a lap of the Dogbone. If I assume that the tracks have a total length of about 18.10 metres, this means that it has covered about 292 km by this morning. An astonishing achievement indeed. If you do the maths, you'll notice a difference of two days, as the system was switched off for safety reasons as there was no one to maintain it. This morning there was the first 'accident' - the coupling on the motorised car had come loose and the car hit the sidecar. The trailer car derailed at a point and the motorised car made a small dent in the brass on both rails.
What I noticed was what I consider to be enormous wear on the curved rails. Especially on the outer curve. The last photo shows the abrasion. There are also small piles at the joints.
Picture 1: The shop window.
Picture 2: The layout in the shape of a dog bone.
Picture 3: Abrasion in the R 1 curve.
The trailer had metal wheels.
Peter
It runs on a timer every day from 10 am to 7 pm. It takes 38 seconds to complete a lap of the Dogbone. If I assume that the tracks have a total length of about 18.10 metres, this means that it has covered about 292 km by this morning. An astonishing achievement indeed. If you do the maths, you'll notice a difference of two days, as the system was switched off for safety reasons as there was no one to maintain it. This morning there was the first 'accident' - the coupling on the motorised car had come loose and the car hit the sidecar. The trailer car derailed at a point and the motorised car made a small dent in the brass on both rails.
What I noticed was what I consider to be enormous wear on the curved rails. Especially on the outer curve. The last photo shows the abrasion. There are also small piles at the joints.
Picture 1: The shop window.
Picture 2: The layout in the shape of a dog bone.
Picture 3: Abrasion in the R 1 curve.
The trailer had metal wheels.
Peter