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Dear collegues,
just to take a short break from marroon and orange, I decided to give good old Perry and his cars a spin. Although it is certainly a bit too lush for So-Cal, I staged a quick activity on my personal modification of Wayne's 1914 L&PS into a signalled (and thus AI-friendly) 1956's interurban route...
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Dashed out to snap a picture of that oncoming local before getting the green light out of London...
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Lots of wires to run under in the Pond Mill area...
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Our PE Ten posing in the sunshine during the wait for another meet.
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Letting the Express motors pass.
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Traction eldorado: Busy scenes in front of the Talbot Hotel of St. Thomas.
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Passing a waiting freight on approach to our destination, Port Stanley.
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Right after pulling into the depot with the Ten some 2 minutes late - always blame it on the photographer - a former Portland motor in the striking butterfly scheme that is already waiting on the adjacent track finally gets its clearance to start his return trip...
Beautiful equipment to run. And in case you haven't done so, guys, go and try out the #5 passenger view on that Ten (PE-1016).
Cheers, Lukas
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PE-ople moving, 1950's style
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Posted 28 July 2009 - 09:55 AM
Very nice! I think the Red Car always looks good in the lush green scenery of the L&PS. And you can get away with 3-car box motor trains there, without violating the full crew laws, too ;). Thanks, Lukas!
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Posted 03 August 2009 - 05:32 AM
timmuir, on Jul 28 2009, 07:55 PM, said:
Very nice! I think the Red Car always looks good in the lush green scenery of the L&PS. And you can get away with 3-car box motor trains there, without violating the full crew laws, too :mellow:. Thanks, Lukas!
Agreed, Tim, agreed. And they look right in the middle of those dusty streets as well!
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London Street Scenes with PE 1464 idling in the foreground and a meet of two PE Tens in the back.
No worries about the crew laws: After all, each of those cars has two men on duty (although they're not quite facing the same way). Btw. Tim, a typical past midnight thought just passed my mind yesternight, about those crewpeople at either end of the cars that you mentionned as 'a bit odd looking' yourself in the read-me. Couldn't they - as far as they're part of the shape, not the freight anim - somehow be made a part of the pantograph animation on future projects ( e.g. Pantograph_bottom1 ... ) so that they move / rotate / fold / whatsoever in and out of view at either end when the MSTS bin user switches cabs, or be animated to switch ends like the rotating pole on the PE steeplecabs?
For the time being, I've reduced the population of idling crew people in loose cuts by creating a cloned PE-xxxx_idler.wag of each motor that lacks the freight anim shape or - in the case of the PE-Tens - calls for the original .s without motorman animation. I then use these 'idlers' for eye-candy cuts that have no other purpose than to be placed on sidings and car barn approaches in activities. Since their .wag files are reduced to the minimum, they also lack lights and sounds, and thus they allow populating the scenery without eating away at the limits for the light count and sound stream count...
Cheers, Lukas
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