Re: Mac Poor photo at Climax

Posted by Todd Hackett on Nov 15, 2024; 4:30am
URL: http://c-sng-discussion-forum.254.s1.nabble.com/Mac-Poor-photo-at-Climax-tp20254p20297.html

Keith Hayes wrote

...what would the switch be for? ...I have always thought that the rails were laid off center for some reason...

The locomotive doesn't appear to be centered over the middle two rails - more like centered between the second from left and far right. Also, the two rails on the right seem to be getting closer together toward the front with the "gauge" between the inner rails getting smaller. I was thinking this might be a derail. This other view of #76, which is also identified on the back as being the last train, shows the narrow gauge rails pretty well centered between the standard gauge without any ties between standard gauge and narrow gauge rails. It also looks like teh standard gauge are heavier, while the photo at the top of this thread seem to show the far right and second from left to be the heavier ones, which may makes sense for a derail (the derail tracks being lighter), but I don't know that derail tracks would extend that far or be in a curve. It's possible that they shifted the relative location and that the change in gauge is an illusion, but it doesn't look right to me.