Narrow gauge has captured my time of late so, in order to relax and inspired by a recent article in "The Warbonnet" on the Southern California Fruit Industry, I decided to run a little Santa Fe action. I set up an activity running a GFX (Green Fruit Express) out of San Bernardino with four F units on the point and 99 of Tim Muir's marvelous reefers filled with fresh California oranges between the head end and the caboose. Four Geep 7's on the rear helped push me over Cajon and into Barstow.
At Barstow there was a power change with Four new F's, 243LABC with two GP7's in the middle to provide enough power for Ash Hill and Goffs and off towards Needles we went. Here we are east of Amboy hitting 60 per just before pounding up Goffs hill.
With four v4 F units and two v3 GP7s from 3DTrains, 99 loaded, hatches closed SFRD Reefers from Tim and a Matt Doti caboose my powerhouse PC was down in the FPS low 10s for most of this run! But they sure are pretty!
I sure am loving this latest version of Bin which give you a greatly extened #4 trainspotter view, actually allowing your whole train to pass before shifting to another view.
The only problem is that I have to keep hitting the 4 key 'cause it takes over two minutes for this train to pass at 25 MPH - you miss too many grade crossings at that rate! :rolleyes:
Here we are pounding through Cadiz at an earth shattering 30 MPH in Run 8 on the 1.1%, passing the Rice/Parker local parked in the hole.
Blasting up the 1.1% near Siam. We should be passing the Fast Mail here somewhere.
Roaring into Granby we can see Train 7 coming down the hill at a flying run. The Fast Mail passes us, nine minutes late and making up time on the 90 MPH down hill run.
As the combine/rider car of Train 7 passes our caboose we head on over the hill towards Needles. There we'll pick up a four unit F7 helper for the Seligman Sub's 1.42 % grades - but that's a story for another day. :lol:
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Now For Something Different A little Santa Fe Diversion
#3 Inactive_geode_*
Posted 30 May 2008 - 05:21 AM
#4
Posted 30 May 2008 - 01:26 PM
#5
Posted 30 May 2008 - 01:45 PM
Nice set Herb - haven't run a West Coast route in a while (been too busy wrangling with trees and fields and things that appreciate a spot o' rain now and then :rolleyes: ). Really love that first distance shot (#7) and the gradation in colour off to the hills in the distance. Very evocative.
I can feel a run or two on Cajon coming on.
Rod
I can feel a run or two on Cajon coming on.
Rod
#6
Posted 30 May 2008 - 01:47 PM
Fantastic series, Herb. :lol: I'm always happy to see those reefers being used, but 99! Holy Cow, whatta sight to behold! :rolleyes:
#7
Posted 31 May 2008 - 07:35 AM
And you can bet that Herb has cloned those Reefers with
99 different car numbers too. :rolleyes:
99 different car numbers too. :rolleyes:
#8
Posted 31 May 2008 - 12:14 PM
Only 18 different numbers. Hey, you have to protect the FPS counts some way! If I had 99 separate numbers - 99 separate .wags - 99 separate 1024 .ace files - 99 separate highly detailed .s files - why the thing wouldn't even move! :rolleyes:
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