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Yeah, but it's gotta be a son-of-a-b@#% to bang home a spike in it !
Ever try pounding a nail into a hockey puck ? Imagine a spike !

Where abouts in Alabama did this occur ? I live outside Birmingham, and check RR news daily, but never heard a word of any of this happening. Must have been a really rural area, cause it never even received a little blurb of text anywhere.

Here's a pic and breifing:

http://www.democratandchronicle.com/app ... 1/71220017

ouch ! That must've left a dent.

What about making flex look like hand laid? How would you go about that? On my last layout, using flex track on much of the main line, I experimented with removing sections of plastic ties, and replacing them with wood ties and a couple spikes. For instance, leave 4 plastic ties at the end of your ...

Hey there Fred ! Another Somerset train just hit the dirt...

http://www.athensmessenger.com/main.asp ... cleID=6807

~Bill March

Given the choice between a RS-1 and a SW8, I’d take the RS-1. Again I’m sure someone would take the SW8. EMD didn’t really field a SW on road trucks. (In the USA anyway.) RS Perhaps my memory is getting old, but wasn't the MP15-1 a Multi-Purpose EMD switcher (basically a refined SW1500) with road t...

Yep, that's them. Interesting. Must be some pretty big cranes or helicopters putting these wind mills up.
Thanks to Mmi16, Roadster, CSXdixie, and Mike for your informative replies.

Thanks Conrail... no, not really with a camera right now. But I think you might be correct about them being huge wind turbine generator parts. That was another guess of mine, but I was thinking they are too big and hollow for that. Plus I have not seen any blades or pedastal column pieces come throu...

I'm new to the forum, and new to Alabama. I have been an ardent railroader in upstate New York for over 20 years. The last few months, I have seen countless numbers of flatcars move through Central Alabama via CSX between Montgomery & Birmingham with huge, hollow, bulbous looking things on them....

Keating Summit ? If you're headed down there, snap some shots of the Gardeau derailment site, where 31 cars flipped off the tracks & piled up doing 73 mph on the 15 mph downhill grade. Although 44,000 gallons of lye chemicals dumped out of crushed tankers into the hilly ravines, the Chlorine car...