Bernard Posted June 18, 2008 Share Posted June 18, 2008 I've almost finished ballasting all my track! (Yippee!!) But before I finish I need to put track bumpers in my yard. Does anyone have photos or models of what a Japanese track bumper of yard looks like? I want to see if I can scratch build them. Thanks. Link to comment
CaptOblivious Posted June 20, 2008 Share Posted June 20, 2008 I've been looking, but I haven't anything to share yet! I'm sure you couldn't go wrong with a basic concrete block or contraption made out of snips of rail based on a western prototype. Link to comment
Bernard Posted June 20, 2008 Author Share Posted June 20, 2008 Thanks Capt. you're right. I took a look at the Kato bumpers and they offer 3 types, two look like blocks of concert and one is a typical Western prototype made from rails. So I have 3 choices. Link to comment
Martijn Meerts Posted June 20, 2008 Share Posted June 20, 2008 I think at Tokyo station they just piled a bunch of sand on top of the rails at the end, at least on the shinkansen tracks ;) Link to comment
alpineaustralia Posted June 21, 2008 Share Posted June 21, 2008 At at least one station I saw the rails bent up to form a "very steep hill" (ie about 1 m high) over a length od about 1 metre Link to comment
Bernard Posted June 22, 2008 Author Share Posted June 22, 2008 Thanks everybody. Boy I would love to see how bags of sand will stop a Shinkansen. (But it would make my modeling easier ;D) Link to comment
Martijn Meerts Posted June 22, 2008 Share Posted June 22, 2008 Bernard, I don't think any regular track bumper would stop a shinkansen at high speed. They have different ways to avoid serious problems by causing a controlled derailing of trains etc. Link to comment
marknewton Posted June 23, 2008 Share Posted June 23, 2008 Bernard, have a look at this page: http://nekosuki.org/landscape/index2/operation-stopper.htm#00001 I think you'll find something here that takes your fancy! Cheers, Mark. Link to comment
CaptOblivious Posted June 23, 2008 Share Posted June 23, 2008 Nice find, Mark! Bernard, have a look at this page: http://nekosuki.org/landscape/index2/operation-stopper.htm#00001 I think you'll find something here that takes your fancy! Cheers, Mark. Link to comment
Bernard Posted June 23, 2008 Author Share Posted June 23, 2008 Mark - Thanks that is exactly what I was looking for! It look easy to scratch build, that is if I just pour ballast at the end of the rails (except I ran out of ballast & so did my LHS because I bought the 3 bags they had) Great find. Link to comment
alpineaustralia Posted June 24, 2008 Share Posted June 24, 2008 The 8th one down was the one I was trying to describe. You could do that without ballast and with a pair of long nose pliers Link to comment
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