Get out the drooling towel!

[landnrailroader]

I have received routes from acquaintances in Brazil which are excellent as you can see from the images. Unfortunately they appear to have used a lot of 3DT, 3DTS, and SLI payware in them so we cannot post them here unless we can find out if permission granted to the route creators. MRS Logistica is a ore hauler (Iron) that was put together from scratch in the 1980s, i.e. the route for loaded trains to avoid a lot of otherwise helper districts. The older route is used for sending empties back to the open pit mines and parts of it date as far back as 1870. Most of the iron goes to a ocean transload terminal several kilometers south of Rio. The original signal system from England was obsolete by 2010 or so, and a company I worked for got the contract to provide new signals entirely, using Electrocode which sends signal codes through the rails and thus eliminates the need for a lot of lineside cable. A good friend and colleague designed the typical plan sheets and I created CAD files of them with text in English and Portuguese. A fellow from MRS spent a few weeks with us translating the instructions. So get out the drooling towel.

[burgerbern]

wow i have filled up the washing machine with drooling towels

[William Madona]

I have received routes from acquaintances in Brazil which are excellent as you can see from the images. Unfortunately they appear to have used a lot of 3DT, 3DTS, and SLI payware in them so we cannot post them here unless we can find out if permission granted to the route creators. MRS Logistica is a ore hauler (Iron) that was put together from scratch in the 1980s, i.e. the route for loaded trains to avoid a lot of otherwise helper districts. The older route is used for sending empties back to the open pit mines and parts of it date as far back as 1870. Most of the iron goes to a ocean transload terminal several kilometers south of Rio. The original signal system from England was obsolete by 2010 or so, and a company I worked for got the contract to provide new signals entirely, using Electrocode which sends signal codes through the rails and thus eliminates the need for a lot of lineside cable. A good friend and colleague designed the typical plan sheets and I created CAD files of them with text in English and Portuguese. A fellow from MRS spent a few weeks with us translating the instructions. So get out the drooling towel.

Good afternoon, how are you? I work as a train engineer at MRS Logistica, just a few corrections. MRS is a private company, so it obtained the concession for the railway network in which it operates in mid-1995. Although its focus is the transport of iron ore, it also transports steel products (called general cargo here), bulk materials such as sugar , corn, soy, cellulose, bauxite, coke and so on.

[landnrailroader]

Thanks for the correction William. It is an interesting railroad. All those tunnels & high viaducts. There are a number of clips on YouTube and I had noticed that other material was carried and isn't there also some passenger activity around Sao Paulo. I believe that steeply graded incline (since replaced with a new alignment) is also part of MRS? I wasn't allowed to touch the throttle or toot the horn, but in my 13 years at Southern Railway, if the dang thing jumped the track, it was my chore to find out WHY? At Chessie System/CSX I was manager of the CAD system initially used by the signal department and later by all areas of Engineering.

Jerry