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Today, 02:12 AM

seagoon replied to a thread Video: Trona Branch - Coal to Searles plus Saltdale. in Run8 General

Thanks for your input, Sean, but it still doesn't satisfactorily provide an answer to what would they have done 50 years ago? When Southern...

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Yesterday, 10:05 PM

seagoon replied to a thread Video: Trona Branch - Coal to Searles plus Saltdale. in Run8 General

Not quite sure what your point is. :confused: Are you saying that this is the method they would have used or that they would have run a loco down...

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Yesterday, 05:24 PM

seagoon started a thread Video: Trona Branch - Coal to Searles plus Saltdale. in Run8 General

James provided a link to a guy exploring Saltdale, or what's left of it, and it got me thinking as to how the railroad (SP?) would have serviced it...

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Yesterday, 05:06 PM

seagoon replied to a thread NIMBY - Train system simulation. FYI. in General

For $16 I think I'll have a shot at this and do a bit of "what if?". :)

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Yesterday, 05:05 PM

seagoon replied to a thread NIMBY - Train system simulation. FYI. in General

Could be, Mike. I was wondering what the acronym meant. :)

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Yesterday, 06:18 AM

seagoon started a thread NIMBY - Train system simulation. FYI. in General

New on Steam....released 27th. January 2021. From the developer's news update................ NIMBY Rails is finally ready for its Early Access...

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01-25-2021, 01:12 AM

seagoon replied to a thread Trona Branch - No Dispatcher Board? in Run8 General

Good info.....thanks, James. :) One could always jump back to 1974 and haul a couple of salt hoppers down to Mojave. :)

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01-24-2021, 04:26 AM

seagoon started a thread The Modoc Line - a superb 20 min video in General

By "Railfan Dan", as he calls himself. Popped up on YT today. This is a beautiful little clip, expertly shot and in high rez.

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01-23-2021, 04:31 PM

seagoon replied to a thread Trona branch - Video - pick-up at Searles in Run8 General

Thank you. :) I shall do my best.

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01-23-2021, 04:30 PM

seagoon replied to a thread Trona branch - Video - pick-up at Searles in Run8 General

Yeah....I know what you mean! :D There are a couple of real-life videos which show the shunting/switching operations and that grade is quite steep....

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01-23-2021, 06:52 AM

seagoon started a thread Trona branch - Video - pick-up at Searles in Run8 General

A short (10min) video of the included-in-the-route activity involving empty coal cars at Searles.

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01-22-2021, 01:36 AM

seagoon replied to a thread Rolling Line in General

Thanks. :)

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01-21-2021, 04:22 PM

seagoon replied to a thread Rolling Line in General

Have you uploaded all these to the Steam Workshop?

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01-21-2021, 04:59 AM

seagoon replied to a thread Trona Branch - A comparison in Run8 General

Sorry that I can't offer any helpful advice, Vern, as I don't use the tagging/fowarding system. I just trundle about, picking up or dropping off as...

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01-21-2021, 12:42 AM

seagoon replied to a thread Trona Branch - A comparison in Run8 General

I'm thoroughly enjoying operating on this branch-line. :)

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01-20-2021, 04:15 AM

seagoon replied to a thread Trona Branch - No Dispatcher Board? in Run8 General

Thanks, Vern. As you were posting, I was searching! :D And came up with this............. https://www.gem.wiki/Argus_Cogeneration_Plant

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01-20-2021, 04:03 AM

seagoon replied to a thread Trona Branch - No Dispatcher Board? in Run8 General

Thanks, squire. :) Interesting videos but neither of them provides answers to my questions. :confused:

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01-19-2021, 10:50 PM

seagoon replied to a thread Trona Branch - No Dispatcher Board? in Run8 General

What is the coal shipped to Trona for? Is there a power station there that requires power for the potash mining/processing/whatever? And why...

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01-19-2021, 04:15 PM

seagoon replied to a thread Trona Branch - A comparison in Run8 General

True....so he would have been happy with the Trona end of that branch, with its loading loop. :)

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01-19-2021, 05:25 AM

seagoon replied to a thread Trona Branch - A comparison in Run8 General

Oh, right. :) From what I gather (from what someone posted elsewhere), the Mojave lines "route" which contains Trona was put together by Otto...

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01-18-2021, 06:48 PM

seagoon replied to a thread Trona Branch - A comparison in Run8 General

Hmmm......can't agree with you on that point, Vern. Have a look at the landscapes around the Barstow area in the Cajon Pass route in any of the...

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01-18-2021, 05:45 PM

seagoon started a thread Trona Branch - A comparison in Run8 General

This small post refers to the depiction of the Trona Branch in two sims...Run 8 and TS20XX. It's simply to give some indication of what each version...

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01-18-2021, 04:10 PM

seagoon replied to a thread Trona Branch - No Dispatcher Board? in Run8 General

Brilliant, James! Jeez.....essential info for operating this route prototypically.

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01-18-2021, 04:08 PM

seagoon replied to a thread Trona Branch - No Dispatcher Board? in Run8 General

Then consider yourself lucky that we don't also have a Kiwi and a Springbok in this group! :D

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