01-23-2016, 11:41 AM
The point is this is a very hard steel tool. If you are worried about this wearing out the tool you better not use it to check track gauge because sliding it down the track to check gauge would wear it out. NOT!!! This track gauge was made out of a material so hard that it would never wear out no mater how much it was used. It's not made out of soft brass.
Back in a magazine from the 1950s or 60s there was an article telling people how to use the NMRA gauge for spreading ballast and I have been using mine for that purpose for the past 40 some years. Just to make my point I took a brand new gauge from the store and compared it with a micrometer against the old one and there was absolutely no wear on the old one when compared to the new one.
Back in a magazine from the 1950s or 60s there was an article telling people how to use the NMRA gauge for spreading ballast and I have been using mine for that purpose for the past 40 some years. Just to make my point I took a brand new gauge from the store and compared it with a micrometer against the old one and there was absolutely no wear on the old one when compared to the new one.
Robert
Modeling the Canadian National prairie region in 1959.
Modeling the Canadian National prairie region in 1959.