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jim pallow

February 07, 2018 07:19AM

Registered: 14 years ago
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I walked the Monarch switchbacks and loops toward the end of operations. The rail had been turned and the wear was bad enough the top of the head was only 1" to 1 1/4" wide. My understanding is curve rail would be put in straight track for a number of years and later moved back to a curve so the "new" edge would be the wear side. Apparently if the curve rail was put directly into an opposite curve it was prone to breaking. The Grande got every ounce out of the rail they could. JP

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