<html><body><div style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt; color: #000000"><DIV>I got most of the pieces for the CSX Train of Tomorrow - GEVO AC4400 with Kato 53' cars. I think these have larger than 36" wheels so I'm curious if these will have problems too.<BR></DIV>
<DIV>Finish that project after my Rock Island GP7's and BL2 representing the glory years on The Rock in 1950/51.</DIV>
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<DIV>Tony</DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; TEXT-DECORATION: none; FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; COLOR: #000; FONT-STYLE: normal"><B>From: </B>"ACCRS HO Scale" <accrs-ho@mail.accrs.org><BR><B>To: </B>"ACCRS - HO" <accrs-ho@mail.accrs.org><BR><B>Sent: </B>Saturday, February 7, 2015 9:04:14 PM<BR><B>Subject: </B>[Accrs-ho] Tunnel Portals<BR>
<DIV><BR></DIV>Message From: Dean & Margaret Lewis lewis2@earthlink.net<BR>
<DIV><BR></DIV>Members,<BR>
<DIV><BR></DIV>I was out at the club yesterday setting up a double stack train that I <BR>have been working on for quite some time. I got a whole string of cars <BR>set up at Oildale (passenger track, Peter was running on the freight <BR>side), put some power on the front and headed towards the port.<BR>
<DIV><BR></DIV>Coming out of the tunnel, by Grainger, it was noted that there was very <BR>little clearance between the top of the stacks and the tunnel portal. <BR>Clearance would have been better if I was on the freight side.<BR>
<DIV><BR></DIV>Ran around the back and snagged a wire about a 1/3rd of the way along <BR>Hidden. Fixed that and continued the run under the city. Didn't <BR>check clearance at the other side, but no problems occured..<BR>
<DIV><BR></DIV>1. Problem #1, tunnel portal not tall enough to clear stacks at <BR>Jamestown. Most missed, but one caught. Put the train back together, <BR>backed it down, switched over to the passenger track and continued up <BR>the layout. Still just barely cleared.<BR>
<DIV><BR></DIV>2. Problem #2. First tunnel entering summit seemed ok. Middle tunnels <BR>seemed ok. Tunnel exiting Summit not ok on either end. Something <BR>caught, midway, and string lined half the train. Front half was <BR>catching on bridge or just barely clearing.<BR>
<DIV><BR></DIV>3. Problem #3. Tunnel exiting the helix just barely clears. That was <BR>as far as we got with the train. By then, most cars were off the layout <BR>and back in boxes.<BR>
<DIV><BR></DIV>We need some serious tunnel work if we want to run stack cars, and I <BR>think we should do it.<BR>
<DIV><BR></DIV>Jere ran stacks on the Sunday of the train show and it appeared they <BR>made it around without problems. Go figure.<BR>
<DIV><BR></DIV>Dean<BR>_______________________________________________<BR>Accrs-ho mailing list<BR>Accrs-ho@mail.accrs.org<BR>https://mail.accrs.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/accrs-ho<BR></DIV>
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