{"id":1029,"date":"2008-03-13T10:37:03","date_gmt":"2008-03-13T15:37:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/?p=1029"},"modified":"2008-03-13T10:42:41","modified_gmt":"2008-03-13T15:42:41","slug":"curved-turnout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/?p=1029","title":{"rendered":"Curved Turnout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Lines in the snow<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>click to enlarge&#8230;..<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/031308l.jpg\" title=\"Curved Turnout\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/031308.jpg\" alt=\"031308.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I love the look of trackwork in snow.  Eliminating the ties highlights the beauty of the geometry of two parallel lines, especially on a curved turnout.<\/p>\n<p>An interesting detail shows on this curved turnout, adjacent to the right hand switch point is a short guardrail that will force the wheel flange away from the switch point, keeping the wheels from picking the points as the flanges rub along the inside of the rail.   The turnout is thrown in the wrong direction in this image for it to work, but if you imagine the points the other direction you can see how this would work, the guard rail will push against the outside of the wheel therefore shoving the wheel away from the points.<\/p>\n<p>-Tim<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lines in the snow click to enlarge&#8230;.. I love the look of trackwork in snow. Eliminating the ties highlights the beauty of the geometry of two parallel lines, especially on a curved turnout. An interesting detail shows on this curved turnout, adjacent to the right hand switch point is a short guardrail that will force [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-picture-of-the-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}