Socimi Posted January 15 Share Posted January 15 1 hour ago, MeTheSwede said: I can't remember having seen this anywhere else, but maybe any of our resident experts know more examples and/or can tell us it's purpose? Those wooden slabs are used as temporary "filler" inbetween and around rails in areas where heavy maintainance or construction works are going on. Their purpose is essentially to make easier for maintainance and construction workers to walk around the site without having to worry about tripping on rails, sleepers or fasteners. I don't have photograpic evidence, but i suspect those are also useful for small excavators and other light construction equipment to move around the site without damaging the tracks. 2 1 Link to comment
katoftw Posted January 15 Share Posted January 15 Yup as above. Also used on bridges to create a safe crossing or access for non rail vehicles and rail maintainence workers. Link to comment
railsquid Posted January 16 Author Share Posted January 16 12 hours ago, MeTheSwede said: As concrete slab track was mentioned in another thread, I was reminded about this photo of "wooden slab track" I took at Kita-Shinagawa Station. When will Tomix release a product for this? 😄 I can't remember having seen this anywhere else, but maybe any of our resident experts know more examples Visible anywhere where construction work is going on (e.g. many stations on the Seibu Shinjuku line between Nakai and Iogi); at Kita-Shinagawa that will be related to the "rollercoaster" project to get the Keikyu line into Shinagawa without any level crossings; the line will be raised here. 11 hours ago, Socimi said: Those wooden slabs are used as temporary "filler" inbetween and around rails in areas where heavy maintainance or construction works are going on. Their purpose is essentially to make easier for maintainance and construction workers to walk around the site without having to worry about tripping on rails, sleepers or fasteners. I don't have photograpic evidence, but i suspect those are also useful for small excavators and other light construction equipment to move around the site without damaging the tracks. Yup, als for avoiding damage to the equipment. Sometimes you see the cute little tracked diggers or whatever parked up between the tracks. The other thing you'll see similar to this is where tunnelling is taking place, then the track will be on girder structures (possibly with the wooden infills as well). 2 Link to comment
chadbag Posted January 17 Share Posted January 17 On 1/27/2023 at 7:44 AM, railsquid said: GDR Trabant in Japan, with British numberplates? Go ahead (though probably not on a public road): Can you even get 2 stroke oil in Japan any more? I moved to Germany in 1991 and it was amazing that all the (West) German filling stations had shiny new 2-stroke pre-mixed gasoline dispensers installed... Most interesting thing I saw was in Berlin in Jan 1990. I went into E Berlin for a day and there was a street with about a dozen Trabants all parked 45 degrees on the street and at the end was a Ford Escort (US model) with US SOF plates and it dwarfed the Trabants... Link to comment
railsquid Posted March 1 Author Share Posted March 1 On 1/18/2024 at 7:37 AM, chadbag said: Can you even get 2 stroke oil in Japan any more? I moved to Germany in 1991 and it was amazing that all the (West) German filling stations had shiny new 2-stroke pre-mixed gasoline dispensers installed... Most interesting thing I saw was in Berlin in Jan 1990. I went into E Berlin for a day and there was a street with about a dozen Trabants all parked 45 degrees on the street and at the end was a Ford Escort (US model) with US SOF plates and it dwarfed the Trabants... I still remember the street canyons of Altbauwohnungen in the former East Berlin echoing to the sounds of Trabi motors being warmed up... 1 Link to comment
railsquid Posted March 1 Author Share Posted March 1 7-11 konbini in the car park of a 7-11 konbini? https://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/14343003 2 3 Link to comment
railsquid Posted March 15 Author Share Posted March 15 So you have a whole lot of container chassis trailers and want to store them on your layout? No problem. 8 1 Link to comment
cteno4 Posted March 15 Share Posted March 15 Wow, I assume it’s a lift system like the car vertical lifts (not the carousel ones). jeff Link to comment
Cat Posted March 20 Share Posted March 20 We're going to need a smaller Gojira figure — there's a new sherif in town! https://consequence.net/2024/03/godzilla-tokyo-police-chief/ 3 1 Link to comment
MeTheSwede Posted March 28 Share Posted March 28 Do you think the stairwell in your latest Tomytec building acquisition looks a bit tight? Welcome to a bar named "TiGhT" in downtown Shibuya. XL sized westerners may want to head somewhere else. 4 3 Link to comment
cteno4 Posted March 28 Share Posted March 28 I grew up on boats and ships so no problem, has to shimmy up and down ladder ways like that a lot. Learned to keep my shoulders at a diagonal to the ladder to fit through the ladder way and hatchways. but is good deterrent to someone already drunk coming into your bar! Good selection also if too drunk to make it out you shouldn’t be back on the street. Obnoxious drunks can be just slid out head first… definitely some thing to model. jeff Link to comment
cteno4 Posted April 8 Share Posted April 8 But rude peeing in the panda’s mouth! jeff 1 Link to comment
Socimi Posted Tuesday at 02:43 PM Share Posted Tuesday at 02:43 PM Short on Japanese-style signals? No problem, you can use US-style searchlights! (that is, provided that your route is a small rural line set no later than the 1980s!) http://senrohaisenzu.cocolog-nifty.com/photos/uncategorized/2008/08/24/19800316kabuto03.jpg (Kabuto station on the Kansai Main Line) http://senrohaisenzu.cocolog-nifty.com/blog/2008/04/1980316_a069.html http://senrohaisenzu.cocolog-nifty.com/blog/2020/03/post-aa5f9d.html Apparently a few stations in Hokkaido were also fitted with searchlights as well... Checking some sources, seems that the first searchlight-type signals were installed in 1936 on the Ou Main Line, and the last ones were removed from Kamitokoro station on the now-closed Hokkaido Chikoku Kogen Railway in November 1995. 4 Link to comment
bill937ca Posted yesterday at 12:28 PM Share Posted yesterday at 12:28 PM A Lawson in the view of Mt. Fuji. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/26/fujikawaguchiko-town-japan-block-mount-fuji-view-overcrowding Link to comment
brill27mcb Posted 22 hours ago Share Posted 22 hours ago "Oh, yes, the Lawson's that has a Mount Fuji . . . " 😀 Rich K. 3 Link to comment
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