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Post by cowboy40 on Dec 24, 2019 0:54:39 GMT -7
It is amazing just how much fun that nearly a 20 your old program can bring you....I still love playing around with Microsoft Train Simulator...I play around with it...and I also use those files from MSTS in conjunction with OpenRails... a very fine sim in itself....that updates the use of this old great thing!!! These pictures though were taken in a session of MSTS tonight....I love running these old trains over the Donner Pass!!!     The motive power pulling the consist are EMD E9A and E9B series engines from the late 1940's |
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Post by starcruiser on Dec 24, 2019 8:56:12 GMT -7
Technically - the E9 series started production in 1954 so, 1950's until sometime in the 1970's (with Amtrack and commuter rail).
Yep - trains are another obsession with me too!
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Post by kaisernathan1701 on Dec 24, 2019 11:53:23 GMT -7
Nice graphics for being from the 90s  |
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Post by cowboy40 on Dec 24, 2019 17:05:41 GMT -7
Nice graphics for being from the 90s 2001 I belive |
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Post by cowboy40 on Dec 24, 2019 18:03:06 GMT -7
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Post by JAFisher44 on Dec 24, 2019 21:33:52 GMT -7
My favorites are big steam engines like the 4-8-8-4 Union Pacific "Big Boys".
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Post by Deleted on Dec 25, 2019 18:24:05 GMT -7
I'm more of an LGV or Shinkansen guy when it comes to passengers.
The multi-use trail I take to work on my bike runs along the freight line. I really love the sound the locomotives make as they go by. I can feel it right through the bike.
I am also impressed that freight trains can move so much on so little horsepower.
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Post by starcruiser on Dec 26, 2019 9:15:38 GMT -7
The only mode of transportation more fuel efficient are ships - per ton/mile. Too bad most ships use the lowest (aka dirtiest) fuel possible.
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Post by cowboy40 on Dec 27, 2019 0:56:30 GMT -7
Yes, even the railroads found use for poor grades of fuel. The Union Pacific built a series of turbine locomotives meant to pull freight across the open expanses of desert in the southwestern United States. These gas turbine engines were designed by the UP in collaboration with General Electric. These things were noisy beasts, but with the cost of the oil they burned, they served a short but good period of revenue services for the Union Pacific. These "Veranda" or "Big Blow" engines burned very cheap Bunker C oil. The stuff was so thick, that even on "hot" desert days, the fuel had to be preheated in the fuel tanks before the jet turbine engine could be fired up. The engine burned so much fuel at start up, until the turbine was dialed in, you could have confused the monsters for steam engines when all that black smelly smoke hit the air, but once the train was moving and settled into a good pace, the engines started to burn fuel more efficiently and the exhaust all but disappeared. But as more uses were found for Bunker C oil/fuel, the engines soon became white elephants and were retired at the end of the 1960's. which was probably a good thing: several California, Nevada and Arizona towns and cities were filling law suits because of the noise these damn things made!!!  |
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Post by cowboy40 on Dec 27, 2019 11:07:03 GMT -7
Yes, I enjoy steam as well. One of my favorite types of puffer bellies are the old Shay geared locomotives; they are great for running those mountain routes and so on. a lot of power being used to move it along. Here i really don't have enough weight behind the engine, and well was having trouble holding her back. She wanted to high ball on her own...  |
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Post by cowboy40 on Jan 25, 2020 23:53:39 GMT -7
A project I am working one...i claim no rights to the music i have used...this is posted as a private video...and have no monitory concerns with this project
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Post by Ihadanacctbutproboarddeleteit on Jan 26, 2020 17:49:10 GMT -7
Anyone here play the Railroad Tycoon games? I appreciated Sid Meier's dedication to 2D graphics up until Railroad Tycoon 3, when they used multiple 2d models to make a fake 3d environment. Railroads, also known as RT 4 by fans, however, was trash to me.
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Post by cowboy40 on Jan 26, 2020 21:29:13 GMT -7
Anyone here play the Railroad Tycoon games? I appreciated Sid Meier's dedication to 2D graphics up until Railroad Tycoon 3, when they used multiple 2d models to make a fake 3d environment. Railroads, also known as RT 4 by fans, however, was trash to me. Haven't played any of the RT games for years, but I did enjoy them....building the roads, deciding to electrify or keep it conventional fuels. planning the routes and the industries around them...It was something my late wife and I were into...we loved it...!!!! |
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Post by thescreamingswede on Jan 27, 2020 11:33:23 GMT -7
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Post by Deleted on Feb 4, 2020 19:12:52 GMT -7
[EXPLETIVE!] That's a NICE layout!!!! Der's a fellah uppin da yoopee what posts on YouTube 'bout trains runnin' tru his town, yeah? I like his channel 'cus I like trains too yeah, an' I can unnerstand da guy. Not like dees Allanna people.
Dang! I wish we had TGV or Shinkansen here in the states. I do loves me a train ride.
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Post by starcruiser on Feb 4, 2020 21:25:17 GMT -7
We uns down here are 'bout to get us one of them Shinka...shika...one of them fast trains! Texas Central |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 5, 2020 4:15:58 GMT -7
I had heard about the Texas Central, but I did not know they were purchasing actual Sinkansen trains. Very cool!
Next time my employer sends me to Ft. Worth I'll have to buzz through the Lone Star State at 186 mph (once they finish the thing, obviously).
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Post by cowboy40 on Feb 14, 2020 22:14:43 GMT -7
Thank your job is hard...lol...try being a brakeman  !!! |
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Post by starcruiser on Feb 15, 2020 8:50:18 GMT -7
Way back in the 1800's, before the knuckle coupler (in the days of the link and pin system), it was VERY common for a brakeman to get maimed or outright killed while trying to couple cars up.
The knuckle coupler was literally a life-saver!
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Post by cowboy40 on Feb 17, 2020 19:48:33 GMT -7
Way back in the 1800's, before the knuckle coupler (in the days of the link and pin system), it was VERY common for a brakeman to get maimed or outright killed while trying to couple cars up. The knuckle coupler was literally a life-saver! That it was, along with the brake being set until released by the engine air pipe system |
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Post by atolm on Mar 3, 2020 10:36:15 GMT -7
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Post by starcruiser on Mar 3, 2020 20:19:49 GMT -7
It was an interesting concept but, couldn't pull much load and burned lots of fuel while doing so!
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