During a cold Winters morning Union Pacific Railroad GE U50s '50' and '53' operate the UP Extra 50 East service with 50 flat cars loaded with large steel pipes from Geneva Steel in Utah and assisted with a caboose on the rear are seen on the Overland Route departing from the sidings at Hermosa, Wyoming in the United States of America after waiting for passing trains. Facing a few adverse signal aspects along the way, the train proceeded 38 miles eastwards where it would then pull into Cheyenne Yard. Motive Power: GE U50 Route: Sherman Hill Scenario: Geneva Steel Works Tonnage Enhancements: Armstrong Powerhouse Sky & Weather Enhancement Pack 2.0 + Armstrong Powerhouse Cloud Enhancement Pack, RW Enhancer PRO
Loadhaul Class 60 '60075' starting from Tapton Junction, England in the United Kingdom on the Midland Main Line just north of Chesterfield operating service 6M83 during a Summers afternoon is seen hauling a mixed freight train of 10 wagons with the service traveling nonstop 25 miles southwards until reaching Derby aside from a few stops due to red signals along the way. Motive Power: British Rail Class 60 Route: Midland Main Line: Sheffield-Derby Scenario: [SD] 6M83 Doncaster Belmont - Bescot Yard Enhancements: Armstrong Powerhouse Sky & Weather Enhancement Pack 2.0 + Armstrong Powerhouse Cloud Enhancement Pack, Train Sim Community AP Sky Accurate Time of Day, Major Wales Design Class 43 Revamp Pack, RW Enhancer PRO
Installment 20 in a multipart pictorial depiction of a mid-autumn morning stopping passenger service faux Heritage Rail Tour QuickDrive, from Crewe to Holyhead, on North Wales Coast Line, acquired during Steam's Winter 2023/24 sale. Having belonged to LNWR in pre-grouping days, I power the train with a favorite steam-era loco, Caledonia Works' LNWR "Greater Britain," No. 3435 "Queen Empress" to be exact, seen in Lilac & Cream livery. Although Greater Britain appears to be a conventional 2-4-2 tender locomotive, it is, in actuality, a 2-2-2-2 three-cylinder compound locomotive. It pulls four LNWR coaches, the last of them an observation coach, which I failed to capture adequately. This installment sees us departing Llanfair and en route to Bodorgan (not Borogan, as I misspelled it in that earlier posting). NOTE: To my embarrassment, I discover that this installment was posted here half a year ago. There is therefore no need to post it again, except that I spent a decent amount of time enhancing these images with free-tier Gemini and like the results, warts and all, enough to want to show them off. 1) Departing Llanfair: 2) En route to Bodorgan: I was unhappy with Gemini's first enhancement but couldn't figure out why until realizing that the locomotive's exhausts were still in their original undoctored state. I asked Gemini to make them realistic. It went a little overboard, but I am not displeased. 3) as above: Gemini initially showed the loco and tender colorings incorrectly. It took several passes and me showing it another image of the loco to use as a model before Gemini finally produced acceptable results. 4) as above: I initially considered this my pick of the litter but am now not quite so sure. RWE2 (which might not matter here), AP S&W2+Clouds+Veggies, free-tier Google Gemini (the dumb Gemini) TO BE CONTINUED (hopefully with the correct installment number)...
