{"id":804,"date":"2021-01-02T18:45:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-02T18:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.burtoncrumpnold.co.uk\/?p=804"},"modified":"2021-01-05T18:46:19","modified_gmt":"2021-01-05T18:46:19","slug":"more-stowey-green-track-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.burtoncrumpnold.co.uk\/?p=804","title":{"rendered":"More Stowey Green Track Issues"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I noticed that some of my longer wheelbase locomotives were struggling at one end of the upper board.. <br>Caused by the classic flexible track &#8216;dog leg&#8217; effect where the curve is to tight..<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So it was back out with my steamer to unballast the offending track..<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"450\" height=\"338\" class=\"wp-image-805\" style=\"width: 450px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.burtoncrumpnold.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Upper-Track-dog-leg-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.burtoncrumpnold.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Upper-Track-dog-leg-1.jpg 1632w, https:\/\/www.burtoncrumpnold.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Upper-Track-dog-leg-1-600x450.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.burtoncrumpnold.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Upper-Track-dog-leg-1-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.burtoncrumpnold.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Upper-Track-dog-leg-1-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.burtoncrumpnold.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Upper-Track-dog-leg-1-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As before I dealt with the problem by using a spare piece of peco set-track.<br>.. I also decided not to cut the track between the boards as it give a smother run for the locos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"450\" height=\"209\" class=\"wp-image-806\" style=\"width: 450px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.burtoncrumpnold.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Upper-Track-dog-leg-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.burtoncrumpnold.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Upper-Track-dog-leg-2.jpg 2115w, https:\/\/www.burtoncrumpnold.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Upper-Track-dog-leg-2-600x278.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.burtoncrumpnold.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Upper-Track-dog-leg-2-1024x475.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.burtoncrumpnold.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Upper-Track-dog-leg-2-768x356.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.burtoncrumpnold.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Upper-Track-dog-leg-2-1536x712.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.burtoncrumpnold.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Upper-Track-dog-leg-2-2048x950.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I will probably ballast the track on the upper board (right side) but leave the left clear so I just unhook at the fishplates should I need to remove the upper board for any reason. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I noticed that some of my longer wheelbase locomotives were struggling at one end of the upper board.. Caused by the classic flexible track &#8216;dog leg&#8217; effect where the curve is to tight.. So it was back out with my steamer to unballast the offending track.. As before I dealt with the problem by using &#8230; <a title=\"More Stowey Green Track Issues\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.burtoncrumpnold.co.uk\/?p=804\" aria-label=\"Read more about More Stowey Green Track Issues\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-workinprogress"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.burtoncrumpnold.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.burtoncrumpnold.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.burtoncrumpnold.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.burtoncrumpnold.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.burtoncrumpnold.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=804"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.burtoncrumpnold.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":807,"href":"https:\/\/www.burtoncrumpnold.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804\/revisions\/807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.burtoncrumpnold.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.burtoncrumpnold.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.burtoncrumpnold.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}