Spring it's time to restore steam pressure up for the new touristic season on heritage services, the time for stretch the rods of our loved steam engines. The DB 86-1183 prepares itself for the new voyages pulling some concrete containers and steel coils wagons and crosses the Elba River exiting Riesa in a rainy April day.
(Too many) captures documenting the early portion of a passenger run from Penrith to Barnard Castle on Stainmore, Shap & Eden Valley, departing roughly 0550 on a pleasantly cloudy Summer morning. Our train consists of the normally freight-hauling (Caledonia Works) NER/LNER J27, in LNER Lined Black, pulling a rake of LNER Coaches. Two captures at Penrith Station, the train building boiler pressure before boarding passengers: Steaming through an early-daylight landscape: Stopped at either the second or third station. Whichever it was, I totally blew the next station-stop, getting the small/brake ejector off-on sequence wrong and not catching it until too late:
The running in session of the small BR 86 is almost finished, only an interchange service between Weißig Chemical Plant and Riesa freight yard remains. Then the fireman and the engineer can rest in front of a local pasta dish at workers' canteen
Union Pacific Double-stack unit train passes through Caliente on the Tehachapi Pass, with a Missouri Pacific heritage unit trailing. .
In Tuscany we have an historic steam train service that runs only on 6th January (in Italy this day is national holiday): The Hag Train (in Italian: Treno della Befana). The Hag Train moves from Florence main station to Borgo San Lorenzo (in Mugello Valley, a few kms away from the notorious racetrack), starring with a freight steam engine class 740 (65 km/h, 1000 HP, 2-8-0, with tender) and pulling 4 "1928R Type" coaches in a full-powered hillclimb, and later returns downhill with tender forward to Florence. I tried to recreate the Hag Train atmosphere in Germany, between Dresden Neustadt and Riesa, with a BR 24 and five DR UIC-Y coaches. Time of Day 8:00 AM, snowy weather. Start at Dresden Neustadt: Niederau at dawn. Zoomed photo in open contryside.
3 BNSF EMD GP38-2's are pulling a covered hopper train from Havre to Inverness on the Montana Hi-Line.
Plandampf service for German railfans with a Kriegslok running a coal Falns wagons train from Hamburg to Kiel via Lübeck.
A charter New Year's Day train is crossing Bargteheide heading to Kiel. The 218 is pulling 6 historic DR coaches.
Giving the first ride to Just Trains DR modernised coaches in their natural environment: the former GDR.
An Amtrak GE Dash 8-32BWH and an Amtrak GE P42DC are pulling the southbound Silver Meteor service from West Palm Beach to Miami, this is part 1 of the journey where they will continue until Fort Lauderdale Broward station to pick up passengers on the Miami - West Palm Beach route.
Being in the middle of changing how I manage my screenies to share, presenting my most recent journey instead of the usual variety pack. They will return! New York to New Haven was my very first TS route I played, so while running the M8 I decided to revisit these scenarios and also produce my usual documentation. Numbers represent the scenario number itself. 2) On a spring morning with shifting clouds and long shadows, ACS-64 takes a Northeast Regional to the... northeastern region! 3) Returning on a lush summer day, the returning Vermonter meets a rare daytime mixed freight 4) At dusk on a clear fall day, leaving Bridgeport towards Stamford to play night rider 5) Emerging from the East River Tunnels, soon to take a ride around Sunnyside Balloon in order to face Washington for the return trip 6) Winter is here in the game of trains, so we're heading south bringing the refugees, with the train making clear it doesn't want to return
Mixed freight and passenger steam train spotted from a viaduct between Roderau Junction and Glaubitz. In this consist we have three 3DZug DR carriages from Just Trains, one Habilns and one Fads loaded with coal from Marketplace and a stock Kbs with container payload.
How glorious is the Konstanz - Villingen Route? especially when you throw a Virtual Railroads DB BR218 rescueing a faulty vR DB BR111 into the equation.
First Capital Connect Class 365s performing various passenger services on the East Coast Main Line London-Peterborough route.
LMS Streamlined Princess Coronation Class 6220 'Coronation' pulls an express passenger service from Newcastle to York on the East Coast Main Line.
The BR Class 801s are starting to be introduced into service after lots of tests, this BR Class 801 is departing from Bounds Green Depot and will then stop to pick up passengers at Kings Cross and then depart to Stevenage on the East Coast Main Line London-Peterborough route.
It's time to speed up our services! Why not with the gorgeous Wilbur Graphics' (Rail-Sim.de) BR 01.5? So here is the engine number 533 smoking and puffing at 120 km/h (max speed allowed by coaches) along the bypass route between Weissig and Radebeul.
Diesel engines do go wrong, throw a piston etc. When they do, oil goes everywhere, sometimes it's cleaned off other times "get that engine back in service" - like this one. RWA library using a GP9 Pack loco as the basis. Leased GP9 hauls a short coal train on the Rascal & Cottonwood
A First Capital Connect Class 321 is taking passengers from Stevenage to Peterborough on the East Coast Main Line London-Peterborough route.
Norfolk Southern with BNSF foreign power trailing, departs Hagerstown, MD., on the CSX Hanover Subdivision.
