To call this a 'Sun Kink'... | O Gauge Railroading On Line Forum

RailRideOGR Forum Member SUPPORTING MEMBER

...may be the understatement of the year when you see it:

---PCJ

3/14/1812:14 PM

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Farmer_BillOGR Forum Member

Whew! Good thing that wasn’t a field of daisies they were pushing up!

3/16/1812:49 PM

locopilot750OGR Forum Member

Up the branch, we used to call those time warps.

ChiloquinRussOGR Forum Member DIGITAL SUBSCRIBER

It is amazing how much tension rails are under all the time. On our live steam park rails we have a combination of aluminum rail (lots of heat growth) and steel rail (less heat growth). The weakest point of expansion / contraction are the switches / turnouts. Night time air temps can be in the 30's day time air temps in the 90's with rail temps even higher. The worst kink I've seen on our track was a couple of summers ago and the kink was VERTICAL and about 18 inches high! eek Russ

prrhorseshoecurveOGR Forum Member DIGITAL SUBSCRIBER

Oh HOW Kink- Key! rolleyes eek

3/18/1812:25 PM

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