Combined installments 12 & 13 in a seemingly-endless multipart chronological depiction of a mid-autumn morning stopping passenger service Heritage Railtour QD, from London to Peterborough, on ECML London - Peterborough route. Motive power is Caledonia Works' GER T69 4-6-0 tendered steam loco, seen in LNER B12 Lined Black Livery. It hauls what QD terms the 1936 Queen of Scotland Coach Set. As such, I selected Queen of Scots for the loco's headboard. We travel the "slow" track, allowing stops at all stations en route. These installments document travel from Welwyn Garden City to Welwyn North. Departing Welwyn Garden City: Between Welwyn Garden City and Welwyn North: Digswell Viaduct: Leanout view atop Digswell Viaduct, Welwyn North station platforms seen at distance: Halted at Welwyn North: Bringing up the rear, Welwyn North station platform detail: Departing Welwyn North: RWE2 (gimped), AP S&W2+Clouds+Veggies TO BE CONTINUED (and continued and continued and . . .)
Severals Quick Drives and Scenarios to test disc signals in v77.6b (x64) after improvements made by me (Reprogramming and Optimization), everything works normally without crashes after loading and now it's just fun. Stainmore, Shap and the Eden Valley Route Developer: Steam Sounds Supreme
Mornings Weekly time for me. While my intention would be to showcase the Dispolok 189 pack (yes, I could include two pics, but rules!), upon seeing this area I just knew that I want to capture and share it. Of course, these are not trains but cardboards, but anyway. Good enough. Also, thanks to being flat, they aren't destroyed by (lack of) antialiasing. I see no Big River here, only Rio Grande. (...) Soldier Summit, not too far away from Helper iirc: So I just watched an interview with a cinematographer last week and there was a lot of talk about color coordination. Chief among them for natural subjects, red is their choice of cloth. Does it apply to trains? Evening scene on the North Jersey Coast Line: BR 442 (Talent 2) on München Augsburg in a setting that's soon seasonally appropriate:
Installment 10, the closing installment in a multi-set chronological depiction of an Autumn morning stopping passenger Heritage Rail Tour QD, from Newport to Shrewsbury, on Welsh Marches Line - Newport to Shrewsbury. Caledonia Works' GWR 3031 Achilles class 4-2-2 tendered steam loco, commonly known as a Dean Single, provides motive power. This installment sees us arrive at Shrewsbury station, bringing the series to a close. Within Shrewsbury outskirts: Shrewsbury: Shrewsbury: The end is nigh: Shrewsbury Station. Our journey is at an end, and not before its time: RWE2 (gimped), AP S&W2+Clouds+Veggies That's All Folks!
Installment 12 in a multipart series chronologically documenting a mid-Autumn morning stopping passenger service 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. Though Greater Britain looks to be a conventional 2-4-2 tendered locomotive it is, in actuality, a 2-2-2-2 compound loco. It pulls four LNWR coaches, the last of them an observation coach, which I fail to adequately capture. This installment sees us en route to and stopped at Abergele & Pansam. Somewhere between Rhyl and Abergele & Pensam: As above: Stopped at Abergele & Pensam: A & P station: Departing A & P station (duh): RWE2 (gimped), AP S&W2+Clouds+Veggies TO BE CONTINUED . . .
Mr Webb had some eccentric ideas regarding locomotives but white on a steam locomotive? He obviously decided that engine cleaners should earn their pay!
ET44C4s on Powder River Basin. Route: Powder River Basin by Tomcat Locomotive: ET44AC by EYEIN12 enhancements by Switch Point Simulations conversion to a ET44C4
Lilac & Cream was a special-event livery, "Worn for Queen Victoria's Jubilee." The locomotives spent almost the totality of their lives in LNWR Blackberry. There's also a special-event scarlet livery As much as I like L&C, CW's rendition of the scarlet livery doesn't do much for me. Here's a re-post of one of three captures of the scarlet livery: As to L&C, it would indeed have been a bear to keep clean and shiny. On the other hand, were I a steam locomotive cleaner back-in-the-day I might well have taken one look at the L&C GB and thought it a great boon to job security.
Part 2 of 2 After a passenger pick up and drop off at Cresson, Pennsylvania Railroad EMD LWT12 '1000' and it's 9 coaches continue the final eastbound Pennsy Aerotrain service in the Summer of 1957 seen here traveling 14 miles non-stop to Altoona on the Pennsylvania Railroad Main Line. Motive Power: EMD LWT12 Route: Horseshoe Curve Scenario: 04. Aerotrain to Philadelphia Part 2 Enhancements: Armstrong Powerhouse Sky & Weather Enhancement Pack 2.0 + Armstrong Powerhouse Cloud Enhancement Pack, ReShade A bit regretful that it took a while for me to get around to posting part 2 of the screenshots of this 2-parter scenario run. Recently I have been very split in deciding between spending my sessions screenshotting or recording, editing in information and then uploading the runs to YouTube. Both of which I enjoy; but I can only do one or the other which is a real pain. I've mostly been recording as of late but now I want to do screenshot runs again but still want to record at the same time!! It's very annoying!!
Route: Koln-Koblenz, Norfolk Southern N-Line, Semmeringbahn, London-Brighton Train: NS GP33 ECO, NS GP40, Vr DB BR 152, Vr DB BR 185.2, SZ 541, MKS Class 460. Random Picture Compilation! 1) Speed! 2) Time for seasonally appropriate pictures. 3) Freight Boys! 4) Nearly sideways! 5) Gone railfanning.
EMD SD9 trio delivering empty hoppers from the IPPX facility in Provo to Helper, seen ascending to Soldier Summit. Scenario: High Iron Cadillacs, GWD286. BR 294 placing a string of vans for (un)loading next to an illuminated ship in Hamburg. Typical Diesel Dock Duties. Class 55 with an express from Peterborough to London. Early GP35-DD35 lashup, packing 15000 horses, pulls a long manifest through terrain represented by Canadian Mountain Passes. BR 442 tries its talent at playing hide and seek through endless vineyards.
A preserved GWR Prairie tank is prepared for the hard slog up the 1:49 to Goathland on the North Yorkshire Moors Railway. And now for something completely different at Hammerton.
Final installment in a 5-installment depiction of an Autumn morning stopping passenger service, from Wycombe to Maidenhead, on Wycombe Branch Steam Workshop route. Our train is headed by a Caledonia Works GWR "Armstrong" class 4-4-0 tendered steam locomotive, seen in its 1894-1905 livery. It must be said that a route of this size, less than ten miles, would almost certainly never see a train this long, but more likely two-to-three coach trains. My excuse for running this configuration is that my original purpose was to test the Armstrong, which I'd not driven in ages, and additionally to gauge the route's screenshot potential. Me being me, I couldn't help but capture a few images, which morphed into the series seen here and in prior installments. En route to Stop 5: Stop 5: Departing Stop 5: Departing Stop 5: En route to terminus at Maidenhead. Twixt Stop 5 and terminus is a lengthy incline that proved challenging for our inappropriately long train: We see the train slowing to a halt at Maidenhead, bringing our journey to a close: RWE2 (gimped), AP S&W2+Clouds END OF THE LINE
Cheyenne Wyoming circa 1869. New horses arriving for the cavalry and beef headed East to the stock yards in Chicago . Route and rolling stock: Smokebox
Not the beginning of a new series but instead some images of a (Caledonia Works) GNR "Stirling Single" on North Lincolnshire third-party freeware route, captured May 2024: An added aside. This morning I transferred all TSC image files in C:\users\<me>\pictures to an external storage device, then deleted the originals. I last did so late Nov 2023. None of today's transfers predate that. Today's transfers totaled 11,411. Note that the images I post here are renamed duplicates of those C-partition images, stored on a different internal partition. Come to think on it, I really ought to make backups of my post-worthy TSC images (without deleting originals), they being the ones that matter. RWE2 (gimped), AP S&W2+Clouds
Installment 11 in a multipart chronological depiction of an Autumn morning stopping passenger QuickDrive on Golden Age Developments' freeware West of England Mainline, phase 2, which extends tracks further eastward to Yeovil Town. Our journey begins there, stopping at all stations until the drive terminates at Exeter. Our train is powered by Caledonia Works' rendering of the LSWR 415/0415 class 4-4-2T steam locomotive, commonly known as the Adams Radial Tank. It is seen in Adams Brown livery, pulling six LSWR coaches. The loco proves insufficient for the task, though we finish the run by means I'll divulge at the appropriate time. This short installment sees us traverse a rural landscape between Seaton Junction and Honiton. A blasé installment in my opinion, but it is what it is: RWE2 (gimped), APS&W2+Clouds TO BE CONTINUED . . .
^ I wish that was the quality all routes were upgraded to. Amtrak 460 (EMD F59PHI) stops with a Pacific Surfliner trainset at San Clemente Pier: A double decker push-pull trainset, powered by a BR 146, moves through Köln early on its journey to Koblenz: A heritage BR Green painted Class 47 takes a Transpennine Express 158 for servicing through the Settle-Carlisle line: In a possible post-war scene, an E18 with Silberlings crosses through the vineyards on a Koblenz to Trier stopper: A lone DD35 brings empty hoppers up the hills to a coal mine, represented by Norfolk Southern Coal District:
60029 waits in the Down slow at a red just south of Acton Bridge after coming of the Cheshire lines as a Pendolino speeds North, when we get the proceed aspect we will head on to Warrington Arpley sidings.
Installment 6 in a multiset chronological depiction of a cloudy Autumn morning passenger run QD between Liverpool Lime Street and Manchester Picadilly (via Warrington Central). The train consists of Caledonia Works' LNWR Webb Coal Tank No. 1054, in preservation livery, pulling AP MK1 coaches. All images are manipulated to mimic old, sometimes damaged photos or film stills, via Paint.NET (freeware image editor), Wondershare Filmora (payware video creator/editor), or both. Between Halewood and Hough Green: Hough Green: Hough Green: Departing Hough Green: RWE2 (gimped), AP S&W2+Clouds+Veggies, Paint.Net (freeware image editor), Wondershare Filmora (payware video editor) TO BE CONTINUED . . .
As I'm moving to enable renovation, I don't have access to my newest pictures right now, just a two weeks old backup. Hence this is a memory lane post, sharing the first (leftover) capture from each year. 2024 - Transpennine Express 158 pulled by a Class 47 for maintenance, here leaving Settle for Carlisle. 2023 - A (BR) Regional Express Class 158 on a Settle-Carlisle service. Apparently to Chester. Been my go-to UK diesel route. 2022 - The Donner Pass scenario most everyone knows very well. 2021 - At the end of a run across Sherman Hill, our train stops at the junction south of Cheyenne. Towards Denver iirc. 2020 - Is this my last picture at this location? Probably not. BR 189 duo, during one of the route scenarios.
Taken out the 92`s for a run, a pair of them, this time after starting out at Carlisle we pause in the Warrington Bank Quay up goods for a short break, hats off to the ATS Crewe for the exteriour, if it was not for the dodgy cars in shot this could almost be a real pic. 0Z23 seen here at Acton Bridge Up Fast..... Going past Hartford West Junction.....
Flying through Hartford..... Awaiting the road into Crewe..... View from Crewe Heritage center viewing platform... Stopped at Crewe P12 waiting to enter Crewe EMD.....
Installment 5 in a chronological pictorial depiction of a stopping passenger service heritage rail-tour QuickDrive on AP's Wherry Lines - Norwich to Greater Yarmouth & Lowestoft, a somewhat recent purchase when these images were captured. To it is added AP's route enhancement pack. This is the most consistently visually appealing route in my possession. So pleasing that I drove and captured images of four passenger runs in rapid succession. This series showcases the first of those runs, from Norwich to Lowestoft. Motive power is Caledonia Works' "Single-Wheeler" GER P43 4-2-2 tendered steam loco, another recent acquisition when this run was driven, seen in its super-heated coal-burning variant. The train is, admittedly, not ideally suited for stopping passenger duty; the P43 primarily an express locomotive, the train overlong for the route's often small station/halt platforms. (Coach count is reduced for the remaining three runs.) This installment sees us travel from Brundall (where we spent the entirety of installment 4) to Buckenham. Departing Brundall: Driver lean-out view between Brundall and Buckenham: Between Brundall and Buckenham: Halted at Buckenham: Buckenham: Buckenham: RWE2 (gimped), AP S&W2+Clouds+Veggies+Route Enhancement Pack TO BE CONTINUED . . .
View attachment 171952 Route: Arizona Divide Loco: ATSF SD40-2 Searchlight Simulations Rolling stock: Roadrunners The Bigroyboyski
DBC Class 37 leads the 10:55 Port of Keane to Invermuir Garrison military freight train, seen approaching Invermuir on 2nd October 2024:
While signal maintainers are doing some repairs, two BNSF freights are passing near Immigrant Gap on Donner Pass. Power: EYEIN12, ET44C4 w/SPS enhancements (left), REPPO GP60M (facing) w/MLW Audio light, horn, and bell enhancements by jalsina. Route: Donner Pass
Adriana County pickup. Locomotive: ACDX SD40-2 DTG Base, TruerailSimulations reskin Route: Adriana County
Early Start Locomotive: New Haven GP9 trailer on flat car (TOFC) unit train. Route: Virtual New Haven RR
