[modeleng] Re: The Rocket
- From: "Jesse Livingston" <fernj1@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <modeleng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2008 20:13:15 -0600
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
----- Original Message -----
From: "Alan Stepney" <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <modeleng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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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