Recent content by burroughs85

It's serious if you are dreaming about owning a private island in the tropics and want to colonize it with some degree of farming and also offer sport hunting to tourists. How will a German shepherd, an American quarter horse or even a Holstein cow and a Labrador retriever handle the heat and...

Any North American and European species? How well would any of these animals do healthwise and what special provisions would man have to make to keep them in tropical island climates with vegetation/terrain/soil types typical of these regions of the world? Tropical climate is generally hot and...

I don't own cows and never will. I personally won't have to worry about livestock, I don't even have, crossing roads. For those who own cows needing to cross roads, I will let them duke it out with whatever public or private entities who maintain the livestock crossing provisions.

A real-world example of what I have on my model train layout would probably not be the cheapest solution for a cattle/animal/people/vehicle crossing in a rural area but the safest. It prevents the disruption of road and rail traffic as well.

Get a clue: it's all about getting cows across the road safely and about doing such as economically feasible as possible, not rocket science.

On my model RR layout, that is actually public property, the county, where the cattle go under the bridges. The local ranchers just use the public trail system to move stock on the hoof. The barbed wire is also maintained by the make-believe county. Your county tax dollars hard at work.

A middleman (third party, agent) who buys and sells livestock. Something like a "stock" broker. I have the real estate and automobile trades in mind but the cow business might be different than selling homes and cars. Are cattle buyers as shrewd as horse traders are reputed to be?

Probably more costly to construct and maintain than the model I have pictured. That is a wildlife overpass. They probably still had to shut the highway down to construct that.

The local taxpayers get something to boot for their money: it's not only for livestock on the drive (cows and sheep) but also for recreational trail users, hunters and wild animal migration. Many people and animals can cross under the roads and no living things or vehicles ever get damaged. I'm...

Will gunfire stop those bigger and heavier trains? On my model RR layout, the fictitious "Squatch County" maintains that underpass and it's funded by fictitious tax dollars. The local taxpayers get something to boot for their money: it's not only for livestock on the drive (cows and sheep) but...

Cattle brokers get paid on commission?

In the model underpass as I have shown, it's a question of who owns, constructs, operates and maintains this infrastructure. In my example, there has to be enough bridge clearance for mounted horsemen and off-road vehicles. My example has 12 feet of head room. In my fictitious, example, it's...

Finally, I settled for a steel girder road bridge with side plates and concrete abutments to match the railroad bridge. Prototypically, an American civil engineering design. Masonry bridges in modern times are more of a European thing.

I have made improvements to my cattle underpass by reinforcing it with concrete under the road bridges to prevent erosion. I improved my road bridge with better-looking masonry wall. The road overpass is about 65 feet across. The clearance is enough for mounted horsemen and vehicles to pass...

In some places, cattle must cross a highway or a railroad line directly. What is done to prevent vehicles or trains from hitting cows at these crossings? The railroad line could be fast: maybe something like 50 to 70 MPH, with heavy freights barreling through. Let's say one is driving cows...