Re: Wheel Crowders - What are they?

["Barry Campbell" <campblbm@ozemail.com.au>]

Notagunzel wrote in message ...
>
>I remember sitting at a station one day, waiting to send an ACRE, a train
>was shunting in the yard.  Anyway, this train was being propelled, and for
>whatever reason, the train was sent over a scotch block over the rail.
>Carriages wobbled a bit, but didn't derail, and upon sleazing over, the
>scotch block was in several thousand pieces.  Just goes to show how
pathetic
>scotch blocks are.  (Scotch blocks are just a mainly timber version of a
>derail.)
>
Since when have scotch blocks been timber?

Barry Campbell