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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.

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Yup as above.  Also used on bridges to create a safe crossing or access for non rail vehicles and rail maintainence workers.

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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.

 

 

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 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).

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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...

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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...

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So you have a whole lot of container chassis trailers and want to store them on your layout? No problem.

 

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Wow, I assume it’s a lift system like the car vertical lifts (not the carousel ones).

 

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Do you think the stairwell in your latest Tomytec building acquisition looks a bit tight?

 

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Welcome to a bar named "TiGhT" in downtown Shibuya.

 

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XL sized westerners may want to head somewhere else.

 

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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

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