PROTOTYPE Weekend Proto Fun! 6/29/2012

YoHo Jun 29, 2012

  1. YoHo

    YoHo TrainBoard Supporter

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    I can't say that I know the answer to this for certain, but having driven out to Toledo, I know that the parts of the line that are visible are heavily forested both Conifer and deciduous. In fact, there's a section where the track passes through ranks of trees that when I saw them, were in their fall glory. I don't know that they needed to be cut back, but certainly they overhung the right of way even if they didn't directly interfere.

    The torrential downpowers that the coast range can get will wreck havoc on this line regularly. If you follow the Yahoo PNWR group, Rain, downed trees and leaves will slow it down and cause it adhesion problems on a fairly routine basis.

    Such is the former SP in Oregon. Well kept level mainlines are for the weak.
     
  2. BoxcabE50

    BoxcabE50 HOn30 & N Scales Staff Member TrainBoard Supporter

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    I well remember the falling leaves, mostly maple and alder, along the old NP branch where I grew up. Soggy in the Washington Cascade Mountain foothills. Trains during those months would either need an extra Geep, or we would see them double the grade. And it was not that steep at all. Those tracks and right of way were well maintained. But the forests, rains and winds didn't care. Memories....
     

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