Re: Narrow gauge gets em too

My grandson, a CE student at U of BC, has been working on the track crew for the D&S this summer. In an email I got from him this morning, he noted that the area where the kink occurred had recently been reworked to eliminate a sag in the existing roadbed. This, without any adjustment in the rail lengths, would have reduced available expansion allowances, potentially creating compression in the rails making a kink more likely. The temperature of the kinked rails that day was in the neighborhood of 125º. Obviously, something had to give, and did. Lesson learned,

Ed Frey
Loveland, CO