Captures from the (GAD) West of England Mainline scenario Coal Delivery. A (DT) SR M7 in Southern Wartime Black is seen during the first phase of the run, delivering coal along the Branch Line to Seaton: Seaton:
Don't think I could ever get tired of TS Classic. Spent over an hour managing the boiler on this old kettle (FR A5) on the Cumbrian Coast Line ......... .... then thought time for a slight change, a blast up the ECML at 125mph. Talk about chalk & cheese. Try that on TSW2, Oh sorry, forgot you don't have steam locos or 90m routes
A (CW) LB&SCR L1, in latter-days weathered BR livery, on a (GAD) West of England Mainline express run. Its purpose; "steam-reverser" practice. Were I an F5 driver, it would be a piece of cake. As an F4 driver, there's no way to know where it's set (except for full-forward/full-reverse). My obvious solution; switch to F5 just long enough to adjust the reverser, then return to F4. What caused me to fail my first run was not the reverser but the fact that Otto, the auto-fireman, allowed the train to run out of boiler water. I then remembered that CW recently released an update for the L1, which purportedly improves the fireman. My second run, with update installed, had no water-shortage issues.
A GP50 double-header leads on a Norfolk Southern Railroader Intermodal on the Norfolk Southern N-Line.
Norfolk Southern Engine #8114 leads an Intermodal train into Salisbury Yard, on the Norfolk Southern N-Line.
1) BR 442 with a stopping service from München to Augsburg 2) Class 33 with a local from Durham to Wearhead 3) E18 with a fast service from Hagen to Siegen 4) Class 67 from Carlisle towards Settle - Repost from the sunsets thread 5) Class 67 with a mail train from Carlisle towards Settle
A Manning Wardle H-class, one of a number of small shunter-size steam locos provided as freeware on Wayside Works website. Some have dependencies. Some don't. This loco doesn't. It comes in a decent variety of liveries. The first livery I tried is Cambrian Railways black, coupled to a short freight rake. I'm not sure what happened, but the F4-HUD lacks a brake grip-ball, though the slot is there. Before throwing in the towel, I grabbed a capture of it, on Riviera Lines - GWR Era: I then created a short freight rake for the SR Malachite variant. The brake grip-ball is in-place with this one. It is seen on Hampshire Lines (Steam Workshop route): In SR Malachite livery again, with carriages pilfered from the SSS/VW Terrier Packs, hauling passengers on (GAD) West of England Mainline. These two captures show it on Seaton Branchline: The run continued one stop onto the mainline, where it really had no right to be. I'll say this, it performed well there, with no issue climbing that stretch of track's long gradient:
Did little in TSC yesterday beyond create experimental QD consists for some of the (PW) Gen1Tank locos. Here are a few captures from one such QD consist, plus modification. This particular Gen1Tank wears Remney Railway livery. I initially coupled it to 3 LNWR carriages and plopped it down at Carlisle Station to see how well it fared. These first three images show it in three-carriage configuration: I removed the "Milk Brake" and tried the Remney with the two remaining carriages, seen in this final image: To be fair to the Remney, I didn't expect great performance from it on this hilly route with these coaches, especially the 3-carriage configuration. Visually, the combo is rather appealing.
I revisited the (Wayside Works) Manning Wardle H-class Cambrian Freight quick-drive consist, to give both it and myself another shot at its braking system. It is good that I did. Despite lack of HUD brake-grip, the loco/train can indeed be slowed/stopped by manipulating the in-cab "physical" brake. I drove West of England Mainline's Seaton Branch, from Seaton Junction to Seaton proper, coming to a smooth stop without issue. I did not test keyboard ; / ' brake controls, as that's never been my preferred braking method. I find myself enjoying this loco more and more. It looks good, drives well, has no requirements, and is free to boot! Two cab lean-out scenics, just because:
Today's misadventures saw me create a quick-drive consist for yet another Wayside Works freeware loco, the Manning Wardle K-class. I chose its blue livery, combined with (DT) Upwell GER carriages. While the K's blue isn't GER blue, it suffices. The train is seen on Epping - Ongar, a route I'd not visited since publishing a YT episode on it with the (CW) GER T26 some time ago. K-class, like the H, lacks an F4-HUD brake-knob. Unlike the H, it has nothing I recognize as a "physical" train/loco brake inside the cab! This stymied me for a bit, until noticing a handbrake to driver rear. This is how I stopped the train. It works well enough on this picturesque, low speed railway. At Epping Station: Lots of scenic images: North Weald station:
This week's "official" screenshot competition being Driver's View, I decided to contribute here with a 'reverse driver view'. Rather than looking out of the cab, we look into it from the outside. The first capture was planned, with us staring at the driver through the Manning Wardle K-class's driver-side cab window: This second image is a fortuitous fluke. After grabbing the above, I returned to the cab and prepared to get underway. Before I could do so, a female sauntered right up to the loco and just stood there, coolly staring into the cab through her shades. Thus, we get a tradition cab view combined with an outside look into the cab. A double whammy. I didn't get a chance to capture any 'normal' images. Not far beyond the station, I discovered that Windows, as it sometimes does, had reset my keyboard's F-Keys to DEFAULT. In my case, DEFAULT mean non-traditional F-Key functions. This brought the session to a halt.
My consists are directly copied from real world amateur photos. bahnbilder.de opened me a world of German fun on TSC. The following example consist is a charter real Regio-Express that ran in Berlin area in 2019 and spotted by someone. Its peculiarity resides in the high old age of the rolling stock, completely out of German nowadays standard (Siemens Dostos carried or pushed by a BR 146 TRAXX). Here we have a BR 114 (BR 143 with longer gear ratio to reach 140 km/h) hauling six former DR coaches: five UIC-Z2 type "Bom" and a driving trailer type "Byubdzf" (the GDR counterpart of DB "Silberlinge"), both third-party DLCs. The two only differences from real photo are the lack of air conditioning on the Bom coaches (the real ones don't have openable windows) and the place of shooting (Riesa instead of Berlin suburbs).
Fluff post - I was discussing shortly an issue with the old Mk1 coaches supplied with the Class 31 DLC. 1) Hug mode 2) Do whatever you want 3) Heavy makeup 4) More 5) Built-in agent
Norfolk Southern No.1074 Lackawanna (SD70ACe) Heritage unit is the leading power for an Intermodal unit train departing the BNSF yard at Cicero on The Racetrack: Aurora - Chicago.
My memories of Lübeck are when it was the North German haven for BR218s (Kempten was its counterpart in the South). This screenshot recalls a visit in the 1990s with a BR294 waiting the road to the yard as a BR232 threads (and rumbles) its way through the Hbf to the docks and a BR218 substitutes for a BR628 on a Regional train for Lueneburg. The route is Nord Deutschebahn
Pookey, that is an amazing shot. I had to look at it over and over again to covince myself it wasn't a photo. Absolutely stunning, well done. We just need the 87 updated to the AP 86 standard and I would be a very happy chappy.
Please add my wallet to your discussions, I would gladly pay whatever the asking price is for an all singing, all dancing Tap changing classic. We need it and we need it NOW. LOL
