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From: Bob La Londe <none@none.com99>
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Subject: Re: gauge railway workshop to yard
Date: Sat, 8 Jun 2024 14:29:13 -0700
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On 6/8/2024 12:31 AM, Richard Smith wrote:
> While on the topic - if you were renewing railway track in a mine,
> expedience the only concern - what would you use?
> The low rolling resistance and being able to simply push wagons to a
> tonne weight along levels you cannot stick your elbow out in is
> fundamentally advantageous.
> Saw on a US website that still sell rails for mine railways.
> For infrequent hobby use you would use?
> Access into mine limited - no adit (horizontal) access nor sloping
> decline - is shaft only.
> Wondered whether you could lower flat bar (rectangular section) down the
> shaft in long lengths and weld to steel "ties" to make a functioning
> railway (not going to need expansion joints down there - not many frosts
> and not much "solar gain" on heatwave days!).
> Saw on a video a coal mine in Pakistan where they use angle-iron for
> rails - shows rope-worked decline the wagons come to surface along.
> Which I take it is cost-justified?
> There are points / switches - cannot have double-flanged wheels to
> self-stabilise track, for what it's worth...  And yes the tracks do
> snake around with curves in following the lodes.

Angle / v-groove is common for rolling gates too.

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Bob La Londe
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