Rerailer Used for??????
Karn Voravidthayakom
I am a beginner and wonder what it used for?
Todd Bergland
>I am a beginner and wonder what it used for?
Mainly for bringing that 'lost' axle back on the track correctly
without the use of the 'mighty hand of god'.
Truth is, (IMO) if you need one you'd better look in to what is wrong
with your track. There is nothing more annoying than a car that jumps
the rail at the same spot and listening to the wheels rattle across
the ties until you get to a rerailer which might or might not work. I
don't care much for them myself. The only 'good' purposes for one is
to possibly speed up placing cars on the track or to make a basic
grade level road crossing.
Robert Heller
Karn Voravidthayakom <ka...@hot-shot.com>,
In a message on Mon, 21 Jul 1997 16:43:19 +0700, wrote :
KV> I am a beginner and wonder what it used for?
KV>
It is used to get ALL of the wheels of a car or loco properly on the
rails. Unless you are really, really skillful, it is hard to put a rail
car on the track just right. With a rerailer, you get one truck (set of
4 or 6 wheels mostly on and then the other and gently push the car (by hand)
back and forth over the rerailer to get all of the wheels just where
they should by -- up on the rails. (Yes, very experienced and skilled
modelers don't need rerailers.)
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Robert Hudon
Karn Voravidthayakom (ka...@hot-shot.com) writes:
> I am a beginner and wonder what it used for?
Exactly what the name implies. To re-rail a car or loco where a wheel is
no longer on the track, use a rerailer. :-)
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F. DABNEY
On Mon, 21 Jul 1997, Todd Bergland wrote:
> On Mon, 21 Jul 1997 16:43:19 +0700, Karn Voravidthayakom
> <ka...@hot-shot.com> wrote:
>
> >I am a beginner and wonder what it used for?
>
> Mainly for bringing that 'lost' axle back on the track correctly
> without the use of the 'mighty hand of god'.
>
> Truth is, (IMO) if you need one you'd better look in to what is wrong
> with your track. There is nothing more annoying than a car that jumps
> the rail at the same spot and listening to the wheels rattle across
> the ties until you get to a rerailer which might or might not work. I
> don't care much for them myself. The only 'good' purposes for one is
> to possibly speed up placing cars on the track or to make a basic
> grade level road crossing.
One can use them at the entrance to tunnels and bridges to help- emphasize
help, not guarantee- minimize a train going on the ground where it can't
easily be reached or where it can fall.
Fred D.
Watching the action from BNSF MP 1112, El Paso sub