[modeleng] Re: The Rocket

Alan,

I wonder that no one thought to do what our colonist ancestors did and put 
an iron strap on top of a wooden rail.  Of course there was a shortcoming to 
that, something called "snake heads"!  Snakeheads were caused when the iron 
strap came loose at a joint and shot up through the floor of the early 
wooden coaches.

Jesse the REDNECK in Tennessee

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From: "Alan Stepney" <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2008 1:18 PM
Subject: [modeleng] Re: The Rocket


> Back in 2004, we had  a special edition £2 coin to mark the bicentenery of
> Trevithicks locomotive.
> That was the one that ran on the Pen-Y-Daren (sp?) ironworks.
>
> The biggest problem was that the cast iron rails kept breaking under the
> weight.
>
> Alan
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