AFB, on the 146 like all reasonably modern DB locos/MUs, is designed to automatically apply a small amount of brake whenever the train is stopped-...
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Especially since DTG apparently also have a good relationship with Siemens
114 miles- longish but not out of bounds
I agree- but I think there might be economic merit in doing an Amtrak loco DLC, that slots onto existing US routes. A Genesis with Superliner...
The brakes on the 114 are COMPLETELY LOVED!!!! They wouldn't stop a go-kart in a mile and a half, uphill. Shame on DTG for releasing a totally...
If they do Italy, I would like to see the Brenner Pass (this also would help with new-country rolling stock issues, since Austrian assets and ICEs...
It's a "best practice" which amounts to a rule- it's how all drivers are trained - to allow for speedometer error up to +/- 5 km/h
The CityBahn > Stadt Express was an anomaly, that only really existed in the Rhein-Main transit region. It lasted as late as 2016
The Bundesbahn service categories were (in ascending order) S-Bahn, Nahverkehr (local service), Eilzug ("through" train), Schnellzug (express...
Then I hope you have a lot of patience and plenty of time. Or at least set a practical deadline, like the second coming of Elvis.
Is the vigilance system on the 87 prototypical? On every other British loco in TSW, the alerter is interlocked with the driving controls, so that...
LeFt Rhine. DTG's call, go figure.
To which I would add, the 204 (DR V100) would have no use on the older Bundesbahn routes that are starting to appear in TSW
Acknowlede alarm (brake demand light should change from flashing to steady) Reverser to Neutral PBC can be in Off or any brake setting, but not in...
Maybe, by not throwing tantrums whenever a train with synthesized sounds is released?
Yeah, but I'm not a fan of cross-era anachronism routes. Despite it having been practically given away in various sales, I have never bought DLGW...
Yeah, because those companies would never release buggy software........
Agreed- backdate the ECML route to the 60s, extend it to York (heck, also add the branch to Leeds for variety), and include a Deltic together with...
That isn't absolutely true. Christopher Awdry still owns the Thomas books. What Allcroft > Gullane > HiT > Mattel own are the media adaptation rights.
I don’t think the analogy is quite on. Say rather that that last chocolste is a really big one, but it’s coconut- and you hate coconut
Yeah, but we’ll forgive you for that
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Completely new topic: Since this DLC will be "story driven", could that mean we get voiced dialogue for the first time, rather than just reading...
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Are there any other reqirements, such as putting the reverser in Neutral or the controller handle in Full Service or Emergency? Or do you just hit...
Gordon is a Gresley A1 rebuilt to an A3. Pecy is an Avonside 0-4-0ST, so much smaller, about half the weight, than Thomas (an LB&SCR E2)
I have deleted the post and I apologize. I got a burr under my saddle and let off a snorter without thinking, which is most unlike me. I do get...
This is a case where an Antipodean third party partner would be crucial, because sending research teams to the other side of the world would be...
Matt, of course
It gets kind of convoluted, in large part because the era when the show began, the early-mid 80s, was just when cable TV was starting to take off...
You do realize that lack of a license for, say, LNWR or Abellio is not a function of DTG not trying, but of the TOC saying "sod off"? As for...
This would be the game that includes a sci-fi spaceship?
Moreover, the original British series with Ringo was widely sold on videotape- my son had all of them (as well as the wooden trains and tracks,...
To make things clearer, DTG should withdraw the old LIRR from sale, or at least withdraw the TSW5 version of it. This is not a case like Isle of...
Freight trains almost never run at either line speed or the PZB max, very often they don't run at wagon Vmax (usually 100) either aside from...
I would suspect it's that way because it was all 1930s technology could handle. They could program the system using pre-computer analog methods to...
erm, the Holiday Express carries over the F7 physics unchanged
Mittenwald, definitely. I will say this about the Big Reveal controversy- everything else this month has just been a little more detail or some...
Lots of shunting, if that's your thing. And can look really dramatic in snow.
Yes, that's right. Later rebuilt as an A3.
Well, apparently it stemmed from Awdry handing his illustrator a photo to work from. What mattered was that it was an 0-6-0T, not that it was a...
A Topham Hatt modeled on Matt P would be epic
Using cobbled-up "Thomases" based on something else, since there are no surviving E2s. So what's "fictional"?
[IMG] E2 [IMG] Jinty Similar, but Thomas is an E2
Nobody knows why Sam chose to leave; neither he nor DTG have ever said, nor do I expect them to. There is no evidence that he "tried to challenge...
After all, for Gordon they would just have to repaint the Scotsman blue (acc to the lore, Gordon was an experimental A1 later rebuilt to A3...
That's true. The old stop-motion models were vastly better than the cheesy CGI.
+1. IF a revamped steam system is part of this, then it's a huge win wrapped in candy-coloured paper.
Man, what a bunch of Debbie Downers! I think it's a clever move- and for those who think trains are Deadly Serious Business... well there's still...
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