Re: Uintah Railroad Moro Castle Curve
| November 18, 2019 02:35PM |
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Mark Huber Wrote:
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> Good lord, that's absurd. I remember doing the
> math back in the day and Moro's Castle (66 degrees
> IIRC) would be a 180' diameter circle. Nuts.
I drove around it in '92, couldn't see the outside edge of the curve(road surface) over the bonnet of the rentalcar coming back down. Now on a 45km/h(or 71/2 chains curve) here, you can't see the inside curve rail around the high shorthood, who only knows what track could be seen around that sidetank on the Mallets, I doubt anything!
Couple that to the extreme grade and the embankment of the curve itself, I guess it was as close to being airborne you'd get on a US narrow gauge.
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> Good lord, that's absurd. I remember doing the
> math back in the day and Moro's Castle (66 degrees
> IIRC) would be a 180' diameter circle. Nuts.
I drove around it in '92, couldn't see the outside edge of the curve(road surface) over the bonnet of the rentalcar coming back down. Now on a 45km/h(or 71/2 chains curve) here, you can't see the inside curve rail around the high shorthood, who only knows what track could be seen around that sidetank on the Mallets, I doubt anything!
Couple that to the extreme grade and the embankment of the curve itself, I guess it was as close to being airborne you'd get on a US narrow gauge.
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