{"id":753,"date":"2015-09-15T13:35:23","date_gmt":"2015-09-15T18:35:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/?p=753"},"modified":"2019-01-30T19:10:28","modified_gmt":"2019-01-31T01:10:28","slug":"im-hearing-spike-mauls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/2015\/09\/15\/im-hearing-spike-mauls\/","title":{"rendered":"I’m Hearing Spike Mauls"},"content":{"rendered":"

First, an announcement:\u00a0 In less than a month The Greater Baton Rouge Model Railroaders<\/em><\/a> will be hosting their annual open house up in Jackson, Louisiana.\u00a0 Saturday, October 10th is the date, and the entire facility will be open for display.\u00a0 They will have layouts in operation ranging from N scale, all the way up to G (and Fn3) scale live steam.\u00a0 Lunch is provided and it’s always a great way to spend several hours.\u00a0 Make plans to drive up there.\u00a0 I’ll follow up with another post in a few weeks with further details and directions.<\/p>\n

This past weekend was productive on the Louisiana Central.\u00a0 I converted and installed another code 70 switch at the bottom of the Spencer logging operation switchback.\u00a0 That completes both the Camp 6 and double switchback trackage.\u00a0 I also advanced the trackage of both the Spencer and the Louisiana Central mainlines toward Whitcomb, getting about 25 feet of track down.\u00a0 By next weekend the track should reach the end of the sub-roadbed presently installed<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I’ve also started a bit of roadbed work over in Willis.\u00a0 A few weeks ago Wayne and I cut some long tapered pieces of roadbed from some 2×4 lumber for use as transitions from the cork roadbed down to the Homasote table top.\u00a0 These will be needed in several places around the layout.\u00a0 I installed the first of those vertical transitions at the beginning of the yard ladder in Willis.\u00a0 This will enable me to complete the passing siding and to start laying the yard trackage.<\/p>\n

In a few weeks I’ll be pushing the sub-roadbed beyond Whitcomb and into the alcove, where the L.C. and Spencer mainlines will be making some hairpin curves and then heading out onto the second peninsula where Oneida is located.\u00a0 If you study the trackplan<\/a>, you’ll see that the L.C. mainline crosses over the Spencer mainline just west of Whitcomb.\u00a0 I had planned to use a Micro Engineering 50′ plate girder bridge there.\u00a0 I opened the package recently to study and perhaps begin assembly of the bridge when it dawned on me that the bridge would be too short for the planned installation.\u00a0 The problem is that the angle of the crossing is about 35 degrees and I hadn’t factored in the space that the bridge abutments would occupy.\u00a0 Uh-oh<\/em> . . . back to the drawing board.\u00a0 I discovered that Central Valley makes the same bridge in a 72′ length.\u00a0 That should work nicely, so I’ve ordered one and it should arrive within a few days.\u00a0 Whew, dodged another bullet!<\/p>\n

As a side note, the Louisiana Central mainline has finally pushed past the halfway point.\u00a0 It is way behind schedule, however I’m now making significant progress in that area and am optimistic that the pace will continue as it is presently.\u00a0 More photos will follow in the near future.<\/p>\n

-Jack<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

First, an announcement:\u00a0 In less than a month The Greater Baton Rouge Model Railroaders will be hosting their annual open house up in Jackson, Louisiana.\u00a0 Saturday, October 10th is the date, and the entire facility will be open for display.\u00a0 … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,18,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-benchwork","category-events","category-roadbed-track"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=753"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1503,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753\/revisions\/1503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}