OK, so a DIFFERENT picture, at much higher resolution.... NOT the same picture referenced above... so this is my fault? I don't have any problems with my monitor, but this is of course another attempted insult.
This picture still does not show what you claim, fixing the ties to the baseboard.... it shows the chair fixed to the tie. No view of tie to baseboard and x-ray view showing the penetration.
For those who really care to learn about what how/why to fix the ties to something:
The never ending "debates" on how to control/fix G scale track normally revolve around the ties fixed or floating. Some revolves by allowing the rail to slip in the "spikes". Depending on the environment, different things may work, but 10 years ago, the philosophy was to try to control the laws of physics and lock every tie down. It did not work for most people. The next step was to try to eliminate all fixing between the ties and the rail, to allow things to "equalize", this failed also. When people started really understanding how the prototype railroads did it, they realized that the ties and the ballast worked together to spread the movement from expansion and contraction fairly equally, but the ties DID move.
Later tracklaying to a completely solid base of a different expansion rate called for other measures that is true. The rail HAD to move in the fastenings, since the ties/base could not move in the same way. Thus things like Pandrol clips, and slip joints. But the rail indeed must move.
My questions were simple and non-confrontive. I really wanted to know how you did it, since you analyze these kind of things in depth, and you also seem to do things differently. I thought I might learn something new.
Unfortunately, the responses continue to show that despite all the insults, references to an expensive house (who cares), and other allegations, that until the question was asked, no one knew you fixed EVERY tie to the baseboard.
By the way: you still have an error in your presentation, this picture shows what appears to be 2 screws fastening the chair to the tie. If this is what you copied, then you have FOUR fastenings per tie, not TWO as you stated.
Based on that error, I'll just assume that the photos you are showing really have nothing but historical significance. I would have really liked to see a closeup of the track, since I cannot even get a straight answer about the fixing of the ties/track to the baseboard at least the picture would give the story.
Done here, refer to the famous quote of Cyrus Ching.
Greg
