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Eric, can I add my thanks to all those responsible for keeping the site going. I've been here for a while (2005) and have definitely been better for that. I don't think I have ever met another...

Pur dha!

Not certain about the Western National LL5G at the station, though. Don't think they were around pre-1892!

It looks a bit different now.

Right hand / left hand running - these days it depends. If you look at the 'silver street to the east' (or in BNSF speak the 'southern Transcon') it's right hand running from LA to San Bernadino. ...

Don has got Chester to Holyhead but nothing further south.

The Japanese are into train simulation, but their focus is very different. The aim seems to be to drive a train so that they keep to a typically tight schedule. They didn't buy into MSTS as it was...

Looking at the Class 47 cab, it appears to be missing the timetable incinerator / aka the hotplate on the second man's side.

I have just watched the Narvik to frontier video. Having recently watched a video of the actual line from the cab of a train of ore empties, it all looks pretty convincing. The major features of...

The MG stands for Monogame, which I believe is a different (more modern) game engine from that used for Open Rails originally. It is said to be more 'future proof' and to give better performance. ...

The SD40-2 is 3 feet longer than the SD40 and the trucks are different, too.

Bill, does that mean you're still running the 245 we saw in a video a few years back?

Rob.

The following link goes to a page featuring an N scale model of one of the Milwaukee 'Bunkroom' cars. The numbers (4441 to 4448) follow on from the passenger cars built for the original Hiawatha...

That looks very well thought out. They have gone for the older yellow, avoiding 'zito', and that is good.

Now if they could have found room for a 'crossing' bell somewhere on the nose.......
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Within 25 hours they had got the entire train either removed from the track or back on it to be towed away. I reckon that was very good going, given the location. Now all they have to do is get the...

As the route goes through Ashland VA, is it possible to produce an 'auto on the tracks' hazard?

Sorry, I've been watching too much 'Virtual Railfan' footage from the camera there.......

I suspect that a version of the SD40a cab view could go down very well with SP people, given that they had many units with the 'L' shaped windscreen.

There's a 567 in that there container.......

If by the 'racetrack' you are referring to the Burlington route between Chicago and Galesburg, that is a relatively recent development for Amtrak. Certainly, back in 1977 when I rode the Southwest...

Steve,

I see that Curry's / PC World have a Seagate equivalent for £132, also via ebay, so the one ou have quoted is not that dramatically out of line.

Rob.

These even formed the basis of the 1300+ 141R class locos built for SNCF just after the war. A lot of differences, though, so that would be a whole different model!

Actually, make that 'nearly' identical to the other CZ cars. I don't know what the differences were, but the PRR car was built to plan 9520 whilst the Q, DRGW and WP 10/6s were built to plan 9509. ...

The GP40's which got an orange 'C' were 3170 to 3186.

The scheme was also applied to 5585, an ex-New Haven RS3 (oh, the indignity of it)!

The GP35's which had a red 'P' were

2252, 2254,...

I can't say for sure, but it might have been because the Gs were mixed traffic locos (British speak for freight and passenger). In the same way, only 4 of the boiler fitted F units were Tuscan. ...

Rick,

Those look just the ticket. I think DGLE looks just that little more tasteful than the Tuscan.

Rob.

Maybe not a good idea to have empty flats at the head end on that grade? I have always understood that it should be loads at the front with empties behind.

The New Haven was indeed special, as was it's catenery. I don't think that anybody else used the 'tri-angular' form, not just in the US but in the world. Then, of course, the motive power was all...