On Fri, 19 Nov 2004 07:11:13 GMT, Gunner
wrote:

On Wed, 17 Nov 2004 15:11:12 -0600, "Tim Williams"
wrote:

"Gunner" wrote in message
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Gonna fill it with sand and set the anvil on top of the sand?
Marvelous idea actually. Very good!

Works wonderfully for my 7" length of rail road set on a 5-gallon pail of
sand.


I just wish railroads were thicker, wider and heavier...

Tim

I was given some rail a while back that is about 1/3 bigger in all
dimensions than normal rail. I put it on my welding table.

No idea of what it came from.

Gunner


About a month ago my wife was surfing her horse sites and found a
beautiful little foxtrotter filly that would grow to about 14.2 hands.
Perfect she thought to pull her cart.
"Why dont you just train one of our horses to the cart?" I ask.

"Ours are too big, we need a small horse to fit it, besides the wheels
are too close together to be stable with a large horse."

So I did some surfing of my own, thinking I would just make our shafts
fit our gelding and extend the wheels out some. While searching for
standard measurements, I ran across this possible myth (on some other
site though) :
http://www.truthorfiction.com/rumors/r/railwidth.htm

I live in a very rural setting, off the grid, but near tracks. The RR
has kindly provided me with lots of useful "scrap".