Stock Rails
The two outside running rails in a set of points.
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Stock Rail
The rail against which the point of a switch rests.
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Stock rail. A running rail against which a switch point operates.
Stock rail bend. The bend or set which must be given the stock rail at the vertex of a switch to allow it to follow the gage line on the turnout.
3. Spike stock rail and guard rail in place
4. Roll truck through turnout and make adjustments
5. Roll car through turnout and make more adjustments ...
Stock Rail A running rail against which the switch rail operates. Street Running The placement of LRT tracks in the street, so that the train traffic is actually mixed with rubber-tired vehicles (cars, buses and trucks).
Toe - Tip of switch rail at the end which fits against the stock rail.
Toe Boards - Walkway or runningboards on the roof of a car.
TOFC - A trailer on a flatcar system of intermodal transport on which truck trailers are carried.
What you are trying to do is have the flange catch the switch point and then shove it against the stock rail to close the gap.
The point rails are also a bit shorter than normal with their point a flangeway distant from the stock rail. How do the wheels cross the gap at the point a flangeway distant from the stock rail? As always, we must follow the standards.
will occasionally need to be straightened with a needle nose pliers, and the pivot location sometimes needs to be tightened with a small center punch on the riveted types. The better turnouts have points made from the same rail as the stock rails ...
The space between a running or stock rail and a guardrail for wheel flanges.
Flash
A thin web of material on a cast part, the result of mold sections not meeting tightly.
Turnout Points--the rail portion of a turnout that moves to change the tracks route. Points are the two individual rails that are beveled and meet the stock rails to deflect the flanges in the direction of travel.
Made up of stock rails, points, closure rails, check rails, wing rails, crossing vee, and tiebar. Turntable A rotating platform for turning locomotives or wagons. On the model may also be used to turn whole trains.
 See also: Points, Track, Point, Yard, Switch
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