[goedel]

QUOTE (dbclass50 @ 9 Jul 2007, 15:28) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>Only a few things stop it running, if the wind is too high & blows the stock off the track, the snow gets too deep...
What about leaves on the line in Autumn?

QUOTE (dbclass50 @ 9 Jul 2007, 15:28) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>...or frogs (the four legged kind) on the track. They get stunned & stop the train so they are soon spotted & gently put back in the pond seemly to no ill effect.
You just need to set the correct CV values and hopefully you should be able to revive them with your DCC handset!!

Goedel

 

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QUOTE (Crabby @ 11 Jul 2007, 16:49) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>It's the little b***ers who do this;

who annoy me.
Have you tried mixing salt into some ballast?

The scale of the plants makes me think of it as a railway through the Mountains of the Moon, I think they're called, in Africa...

Goedel

 

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QUOTE (Crabby @ 11 Jul 2007, 22:53) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>If I use rock salt will it last longer?

I would recommend running a floodlit 'special' at about midnight especially after some rain, and by special I mean you with a torch and a jar of methylated spirit/very salty water to drop the little horrors into when you catch them...there's nothing nicer than the sound of a fizzing slug...except perhaps a snail in a fondue.

Goedel