[AlphaChance]

USTracks can sure do wonders for older routes

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Of course, this alone isn't a sufficient overhaul (I should probably do something about those ground textures), but it's a useful change nonetheless

[AlphaChance]

I can't believe I didn't try out this route any sooner (LaSelle, Rockford & Central).

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[Frank C.]

Just a quick 10 set of this nearly 4.5 mile long "Intermodal PSR" train. This train had a mix of Wine/Salad shooter cars mixed in with traffic for the Port of Stockton, Oakland and Bodega Bay Intermodal Facility. This train tops off at 25,136 feet (4.76 miles) and 24,329 Tons. The 13x6x7 lashup was quite impressive for the Union Pacific. 12,000 Tons and 2.21 miles of this train will later end up on the NWP Railroad after a transfer to the LRJ-96 (Suisun Turn) at Roseville, CA. All shots between MP 319 and 310 of the UP Canyon Sub. Most of them taken high above MP316 except for the last as the UP6480 comes to a stop at MP310 (Blairsden) for two Eastbounds...Due to this monster, LOTS of trains have to double up in the sidings to keep it moving as much as possible.

Regards,

-Frank C.

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[captain_bazza]

Wine and salad cars!?

You learn something scarey everday.

Cheers Bazza.

[damo]

Country Victoria, Australia...






Cheers,
Damo

[captain_bazza]

damo, on 29 December 2019 - 01:33 PM, said:

Country Victoria, Australia...


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Cheers,
Damo

Bonza, mate. Hope you have dodged the fires.

Cheers n HNY
Bazza.

[damo]

Cheers Bazza. All good here mate.

[streamline]

Hello,
after some time of just reading I'm active again. The reason for my inactivity was that the latest steam engines on your site I've always liked so much would only work with open rails. I've tried OR before, but I couldn't get it to work. But now with the latest version it worked. So I could download all those steam beauties as late Christmas presents for me. My screenshot shows the PRR Duplex on the PRR Eastern Division at Altoona, her place of birth.



Best wishes for the New Year ans
Keep on steamin'!
Dietmar

[railguy]

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

I seldom post screenshots, but I like this one. I like to tell a story (albeit fictional) to go with the picture. The non-fiction part of the story is that this plow train is the same basic consist that I saw last night (New Year's Eve) on the Revelstoke webcam: a CP wedge plow, Jordan Spreader, 2 aging SD-40's, and another wedge plow.

So, my fictional story occurs on the Northwest Line V6. A westbound CP plow train has taken the siding at Falden on New Year's Eve. A major winter storm is bearing down from the west. Light snow is beginning to fall from the advance of a wet surge of moisture from the west colliding with the already bitter cold moving south on the Canadian Prairie--the perfect scenario for a major blizzard. The plow train is being moved in anticipation of this storm and will be staged further west tonight. The train crew on the plow train has been told that they will be sitting at Falden for some time, as the RTC is fleeting several eastbound trains that are fleeing east ahead of the storm. Knowing that they have a significant wait and a long night ahead once they are again on the move, the train crew has temporarily tied down their train and walked over to the 7-11 to refill their Thermos's with hot coffee, buy some snacks for later, and eat some hot pizza. Meanwhile the aged SD-40's idle away in the cold night air and light snow. The first hours of the New Year will likely find the plow train crew slogging it out in a full-blown blizzard, more or less alone out on the Canadian Prairie. Such is railroading.

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[Frank C.]

A chase between Las Vegas and Yermo then the next day through Barstow and Dunn on the UP Cima Sub including a bonus shot on the UP Coast Sub...Just got back and processed this set. Today this 'mixed' Q train is some manifest/intermodal and MoW going to the LA Basin tops off at 12,168 feet and 11,345.7 TONS despite being mostly empty.

Image 1-5) Departing Las Vegas and headed towards Nipton the train crawls along with no opposing traffic but lots of Westbounds being held behind it.

Image 6-9) Entering and atop and exiting Afton Canyon, this 12K foot train takes up nearly the whole canyon today.

Image 10) Having just departed Santa Barbara, A774 departs town with a meet ahead with the Guadalupe.

Regards,

-Frank C.

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