Markus Becker Posted September 24, 2019 Share Posted September 24, 2019 1907 steam crane that was in use until the late 70s. https://i.imgur.com/eVjVoDY.jpg Note the light weight buffers and chain and hook. https://i.imgur.com/ui1rqxc.jpg https://i.imgur.com/TySQxfg.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Panzermann Posted September 26, 2019 Share Posted September 26, 2019 1907 steam crane that was in use until the late 70s. https://i.imgur.com/eVjVoDY.jpg Note the light weight buffers and chain and hook. https://i.imgur.com/ui1rqxc.jpg https://i.imgur.com/TySQxfg.jpg So cute! Is that normal gauge or some narrow rail that it was used on? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Panzermann Posted September 26, 2019 Share Posted September 26, 2019 It's strange seeing long American style rail cars on Euro rail roads. I believe they are a GWR design that predates WW1. I think they intended it for carrying oversize boilers, traction engines, that kind of thing. When the war started the War Department order some from the GWR. There was a subset built with mounting points so you could mount and fire an AA gun on them If I remember rightly. Not an unknown pattern for heavy loads in Europe. I have got an H0 railcar that looks like this with a steam boiler loaded. I really should find space for the old H0 Trix and put it up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stuart Galbraith Posted September 26, 2019 Share Posted September 26, 2019 Yeah, it's likely common. GWR were not ashamed to borrow from European and American designs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Markus Becker Posted September 26, 2019 Share Posted September 26, 2019 1907 steam crane that was in use until the late 70s. https://i.imgur.com/eVjVoDY.jpg Note the light weight buffers and chain and hook. https://i.imgur.com/ui1rqxc.jpg https://i.imgur.com/TySQxfg.jpg So cute! Is that normal gauge or some narrow rail that it was used on? Standard gauge. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stuart Galbraith Posted September 27, 2019 Share Posted September 27, 2019 Worlds first steam railway opened today in 1825.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockton_and_Darlington_Railway Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Panzermann Posted September 27, 2019 Share Posted September 27, 2019 Worlds first steam railway opened today in 1825.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockton_and_Darlington_Railway Happy Birthday! have you built that line and added the proper early trains to that trainsim you work on? How to process freight trains the oldschool way: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMho1c1lnLc according to the description this is digitized from a VHS cassette found in an old Bundesbahnschule building. So they were still using this to teach the procedures in the eighties? Spot the DDR DR rail car that sneaked into the film! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stuart Galbraith Posted September 27, 2019 Share Posted September 27, 2019 Worlds first steam railway opened today in 1825.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockton_and_Darlington_Railway Happy Birthday! have you built that line and added the proper early trains to that trainsim you work on? How to process freight trains the oldschool way: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMho1c1lnLc according to the description this is digitized from a VHS cassette found in an old Bundesbahnschule building. So they were still using this to teach the procedures in the eighties? Spot the DDR DR rail car that sneaked into the film! Ive built part of that network, mainly the parts that headed west off of Darlington to the Colleries and outlying towns. But we didnt do any steam locomotives for it. We set it in the 1960's with diesel loco's and diesel railcars. Apparently steam loco's dont sell, or so they told me anyway. Good film, reminds me of some of the British Transport Commission films from the 1950's. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carrierlost Posted September 27, 2019 Share Posted September 27, 2019 Near accidents from Estonia: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stuart Galbraith Posted October 11, 2019 Share Posted October 11, 2019 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Posted October 11, 2019 Share Posted October 11, 2019 (edited) I see European culture has taken a turn for the wurst Stuart, in the U.S. one can take a bus to, AFAIK, all moderate and larger cities in the U.S., coast to coast. Is this option available in the U.K. or the rest of Europe? Edited October 11, 2019 by Rick Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stuart Galbraith Posted October 11, 2019 Share Posted October 11, 2019 I cant speak for the rest of Europe, but most of the major cities have a 'park and ride' scheme, where you can park on the city limits, and ride into town on a bus. Its are we have long distance bus routes, though some services like National Express have city to city services as you have in America. Speaking for the UK< privatization has resulted in a fragmentation and general loss of routes. We only get a bus once a week in the village where I live, and its one way only IIRC. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Posted October 11, 2019 Share Posted October 11, 2019 I cant speak for the rest of Europe, but most of the major cities have a 'park and ride' scheme, where you can park on the city limits, and ride into town on a bus. Its are we have long distance bus routes, though some services like National Express have city to city services as you have in America. Speaking for the UK< privatization has resulted in a fragmentation and general loss of routes. We only get a bus once a week in the village where I live, and its one way only IIRC.From what you have posted about English trains, it seems the way to go. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stuart Galbraith Posted October 11, 2019 Share Posted October 11, 2019 The trains are not bad within certain limits. They are safe (I think possibly among the safest in Europe if that accident rate is any guide). They are reasonably fast. Not bullet train standard, but even with 40 year old trains we can do 125mph running on most of the mainlines, and 90mph running even on tertiary routes. The signalling is a mixed bag, it tends to play up under extreme weather. The electrification is patchy, and again, tends to play up in extreme weather. Its punctual by region, and again unpunctual by region. Its also expensive for what you get, about the most expensive fares in Europe. And thanks to Beeching, it doesnt always take you close to where you want to go, so you end up taking a bus or a taxi. Its a mixed bag. Whats good is good, whats bad is lamentable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stuart Galbraith Posted October 11, 2019 Share Posted October 11, 2019 A friend of mine makes DLC content for the Train simulator game, I thought you might find these of interest. Its a 3d model of 'Bochebuster', a WW1 railway gun that was rearmed with an 18 inch RN naval gun in WW2 when it was pressed back into service. The rest had 13.5 I believe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stuart Galbraith Posted October 11, 2019 Share Posted October 11, 2019 This is the ammunition wagon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stuart Galbraith Posted October 11, 2019 Share Posted October 11, 2019 And here is the real one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stuart Galbraith Posted October 11, 2019 Share Posted October 11, 2019 Here is a few he unwrapped and already in the sim. And this is a war deparment 2-8-0 Austerity, as used by the British Army in WW2. https://victoryworksts.blogspot.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Panzermann Posted October 11, 2019 Share Posted October 11, 2019 Funny that the tanks are more detailed with textures than the cars they are standing on or the loco. Did they really bother to paint those red pinstripes on a wartime loco? The German equivalents did away with anything not really needed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stuart Galbraith Posted October 11, 2019 Share Posted October 11, 2019 The blue and red a post-war livery as used in the Longmoor military railway. The railway you see incidentally on the film the st drink and great train robbery. A kind of British version of Fort Eustis. The wartime livery was of green, as you can see in Pete's blog. The Dutch livery was fairly similar I believe.I Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Panzermann Posted October 12, 2019 Share Posted October 12, 2019 Monorail! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Panzermann Posted October 12, 2019 Share Posted October 12, 2019 (edited) no rails involved, but with steam and the trailer and tractors are very long. Edited October 12, 2019 by Panzermann Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roman Alymov Posted October 13, 2019 Share Posted October 13, 2019 DIY steamer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colin Posted October 13, 2019 Share Posted October 13, 2019 That's a cool little steam engine! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mobius Posted October 13, 2019 Share Posted October 13, 2019 (edited) Here is a few he unwrapped and already in the sim. And this is a war deparment 2-8-0 Austerity, as used by the British Army in WW2. https://victoryworksts.blogspot.com/Did British carriages have spoked wheels during the war? I know Russian carriages did. I made a 3D computer model heavy duty flat car that had 4 2 wheel trucks for the Stalingrad rail yard. Edited October 13, 2019 by Mobius Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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