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Chris Walker

June 02, 2016 06:42PM

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Well if I was doing that I'd pull up the Blue cut to Cumbres, lift the Green cut from the siding through the cross-over and push it back onto the Blue cut, drop down to the East-end switch to lift the 3rd cut(Red) out of the siding, push it all back together and do the Air-test.

John's initial outlay of this included setting Retainers, I never had any experience of those things even on 1 in 35 grades as we don't have them on NZR but I'm sure Retainers were only used on 4%+ grades, certainly nowhere like on the 1.42% that is East of Cumbres.

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Making up trains at Cumbres	John West	May 30, 2016 03:15PM
Re: Making up trains at Cumbres	Earl	June 01, 2016 02:18PM
Re: Making up trains at Cumbres	John West	June 01, 2016 03:09PM
Re: Making up trains at Cumbres	Earl	June 01, 2016 05:47PM
Re: Making up trains at Cumbres	Wayne Hoskin	June 01, 2016 06:17PM
Re: Making up trains at Cumbres	nickgully	June 01, 2016 09:41PM
Re: Making up trains at Cumbres	Earl	June 01, 2016 08:01PM
Re: Making up trains at Cumbres	philip.marshall	June 01, 2016 08:36PM
Re: Making up trains at Cumbres	Wayne Hoskin	June 01, 2016 09:08PM
Re: Making up trains at Cumbres	Wayne Hoskin	June 01, 2016 10:36PM
Re: Making up trains at Cumbres	Jim McKee	June 02, 2016 10:34AM
Re: Making up trains at Cumbres - Ernie's Map	Russo Loco	June 02, 2016 11:31AM
Re: Making up trains at Cumbres	davegrandt	June 02, 2016 11:43AM
Re: Making up trains at Cumbres	John Cole	June 02, 2016 01:09PM
Re: Making up trains at Cumbres (Loco conjecture & diagram)	Russo Loco	June 02, 2016 03:37PM
Re: Making up trains at Cumbres (Loco conjecture & diagram)	Wayne Hoskin	June 02, 2016 04:45PM
Re: Making up trains at Cumbres (Loco conjecture & diagram)	Greg Scholl	June 03, 2016 07:48AM
Re: Making up trains at Cumbres (Loco conjecture & diagram)	Chris Walker	June 02, 2016 06:42PM
Re: Making up trains at Cumbres (Loco conjecture & diagram)	Russo Loco	June 03, 2016 12:22AM
Re: Making up trains at Cumbres (Loco conjecture & diagram)	rehunn	June 02, 2016 07:03PM
A change to my original theory	John West	June 02, 2016 11:53PM
Re: A change to an original theory (science marches on . . . )	Johnson Barr	June 03, 2016 12:31AM
Re: Making up trains at Cumbres (Loco conjecture & diagram)	Tomstp	June 03, 2016 10:02AM
Re: Making up trains at Cumbres (Loco conjecture & diagram)	CharlieMcCandless	June 03, 2016 12:47PM
Re: Making up trains at Cumbres	John C	June 06, 2016 08:26PM

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