Creation Sharing Unusual Formations That Did Exist In Real Life.

Curious to see what unusual formations there are / were out in the real world that we can now recreate.
I start the thread with this CL31 / CL08 combo seen in this photo.
31115 passes under Norwood Bridge

 

Some Class 66 locomotives being taken to Port of Halifax for export:

Based on this:

Not exactly the right location, livery or class, but hopefully close enough


ROG 37 pulling a Class 43 power car:

 

Definitely "close enough"
These examples might also give us an excuse, later on, to recreate the same image but with a community livery or, even, to encourage us to make our own.

 

Here's another one.
Probably more a Livery Manager example at the moment but, when the 1938 stock is available, Formation Manager will give me the opportunity to make the correct 5-car set. (Currently it is the 4-car bit of a BKL 7-car set). And I now notice I need to make the doors, on the just coming into shot coach, all red.
car 44 Wimbledon 181090 - 4VEC & 3TIS ex Standard stock

 

Simple, long-distance passenger with a GEVO, an SD40-2, and 5 Amfleet coaches. The Amfleet coaches are stand-ins for the yellow passenger wagons you sometimes see behind UP power. And it gives a good idea of how an Amtrak P42 pack would play.

 

I think what's good about these formations so far is that they are all really short.
In most cases I think Formation Designer will encourage us to make long formations as they seem more 'worthwhile' as they go past us in-game. However you can get just as much interest, and curiosity, from very short formations. (As is shown by Matt's story of shunting with an HST power-car).
Keep them coming

 

Oh. What's your friends name? I might know them! I'm good friends with and have worked with a good few steam and diesel gaurds.

 

well, the ICE1 pulled some ic- waggons once. Tried to do this in TSW, but sadly, nothing coupels to it, not even ICE 1 coaches. Photo is stolen from google. https://images.app.goo.gl/TwBcDXgjS6Tg5MsTA

 

In my experience I've found that if you can dream up a consist, at one point, somewhere, it did actually happen.

Particularly in disruption or testing.

 

Those were the test trains for the power cars. Makes sense that it doesn’t work in TSW out of the box since they had to be modified to couple to ICE power cars.

Source

 

Might be a while until we can recreate these scenes but definitely unusual.

The time when BR took its latest railway technology to display at a rail show in Germany. The International Transport and Traffic Exhibition (IVA88) in Hamburg.

They ferried over a class 90, class 91, class 89 'badger', a class 150 dmu and I believe two early mk4 coaches.

 

On the ferry:




Being towed through Belgium:


The ex-southern railway ferry van barrier vehicles to allow the class 150 to be towed:

 

Aachen:

 

a.paice, those pictures are amazing! What a find

 

Yes these pictures are great. Very interesting to see this documented and, certainly the formation of the shunter and CL91 loco will, hopefully, be possible when DTG sort us out a 225 set. (I'm sure that Matt is working on it right now )

 

The coaches were not Mark IVs, but the from the 'International' rake that BREL built.
http://www.traintesting.com/IVA_88.htm

 

Well I won't bother making this one in Formation Designer........but it is unusual (certainly out and about on a main line).
Class 101 DMU @ Low Fell Junction, Gateshead

 

You see it occasionally these days with single hst power cars moving from depot to depot.
Always makes me wonder what would happen if it needs to reverse to avoid disruption.

 

You sure that's Aachen or it's the UK invading?

 

Want more power to haul that 1 incredibly heavy brake van?
NOT my favourite 40 shot. 30/7/84
(or 5 Class 40s head off to the graveyard).

 

Was it perhaps something like this?

 

Now that really is dreadful

 

In much the same vein, this is one heavy empty flatbed.

 

Based on Caltrains retirment move from last weekend.

 

A pair of WDM-3D & WDP-4B hauling a Talgo variable gauge set in push-pull configuration.
Couldn't find a better photograph but the formation was totally out of proportions

 

"Camel hump" train - Herbert aka OBB 1144 + Wiesel dosto + 3x CityShuttle carriages + Wiesel dosto control car

tried to do sth similar in-game, took BR 182 + dosto + 3x IC coaches + dosto control car, but it didnt work from the control car end

I would LOVE to drive this kind of formation in-game... dunno about other routes, but I know this one operates on Wien Westbahnhof - St.Polten route via the old Westbahn corridor, as REX service I believe

 

I haven't yet done anything with the formation designer yet but there's a few consists I've actually seen that I wanna recreate.

 

Had to wait for a certain loco to be released before I could do this The coaches are only as close as TSW lets me get since the exact ones are not in-game.

This is the shuttle train between Koblenz Hbf and the DB Museum at Koblenz-Lützel used for the museum's summer festival 2022:





Credit for the liveries goes to:
catgaming#5139 for 243 002-3
Sparmi for the ocean-blue/beige IC coaches
solicitr for the Silberling n-Wagen

 

Hopefully when AC Electrics are added to TSW, I'll be able to recreate this consist.

 

I have actually ridden the Camel Hump train IRL a couple days ago as a passenger... super cool, and even had a bit of scary moment (for me at least) when approaching Neulengbach - train slowed down below 10 kph (as the speed sign showed) and leaned A LOT to the right in the bend... thankfully, that didnt last long... I assume they have the section marked for repairs

"Camel Hump" train consists of OBB 1144 Herbert, a Wiesel dosto coach, 3 CityShuttle carriages, and a Wiesel dosto with control cab... sometimes there is 4 CityShuttle carriages and one more dosto, that may vary, I guess depending on service as far as I know, only old Westbahn from Wien Westbahnhof to St. Polten via Neulengbach uses this kind of consist, but I may be wrong why? no idea... maybe balance into the tight bends at the edges of cliffs that make up a large portion of old Westbahn? lol

 

If we get a Deltic (although we could substitute for a 37 or 40) we could recreate this formation (6Z55 Milford West Sidings - Neville Hill (Leeds)) but instead of HKA’s (because they aren’t spawnable in formation designer) we could use HOA.

Here’s the picture

 

With WCMLOS, you might be able to do that.
(If you make a 86 livery on a 87 it could work)

 

That may be true. But you can still get a rake into Scenario Editor

 

We could almost create this formation, although we are missing the barrier wagon and the BR 139

 

You could recreate it with some liberties by using the Roos-t as a stand-in for the barrier car and the 110 for the 139 though it’s of course not 1:1. Yet another argument for getting a 140 (or 139) in TSW

But we don’t have any HST power cars with buffers, right?