PRR Screenshots

BBarnes005 said:

That looks nice, I've actually been looking for a good route to run all the PRR locomotives I've gotten recently. What is it going to be listed as on the DLS?

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Should be up soon, I have approved the Route upload and the three sessions that go with it

Re post #1119 Dinorius_Redundicus.

Re post #1120 ekankal.

Thank you both for the compliments. Thank you very much for the snow enabled buildings that appear on this route.

The weather here in UK is typical grey, cold and damp with not a hint of festive snow.

Cheers evilcrow.

PRR..... K4 branch local passenger.

Man ... you guy's really have set the bar high with your shot's gentlemen . Ken ... Your last two are post cards

Some additions from ( http://trainz-forge.com/ ) Much appreciated ... And Thank You







And some good old Steam to end the post



Matt

Re Post #1124 Railwoodman.

Thank you Matt. I like the look of your EMD formation.

Cheers Ken

PRR.........EMD F3 through the snow.

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Ooh la la! You've got me hooked

I love the stylish cab window on the rear engine, especially the snowy scene with the water.

RE post #1128 SuperSpeedMaglev Thank you for the compliment.

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As this is on my PRR route, I commonly post screenshots of tracklaying techniques

If the angle of your dangle, is too acute (sharp) your switchs will look like only Mr Rogers trolley could maneuver them. the first only measures 20' from tip of point to center of frog ... the next shows 58' from tip of point to center of frog, which would allow a larger wheelbase loco to run on ... I prefer a distance of @ 90' from tip of point to center of frog, which would allow even larger locos to run on.



116' switch


180' Crossover

Good tips on the rails





Matt

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Matt

Just thought I'd share



Matt

OK Matt, I'll bite, I do not recognize where this is on the PRR so please tell me. It does look like somewhere in western PA but not sure.

That would be Mifflin, PA



As the PRR built westward from Harrisburg to Altoona and beyond, a small locomotive shop was built at Mifflin, PA (across the river from Mifflintown). If you look carefully, you can still find the pit wall from the 75 ft turntable. In early 1866 the Mifflin shops were downgraded and most work was moved to Altoona.
Diagram from the PRR Technical & Historical Society Keystone Magazine

Sorry hindsight , should of posted this with the pic's

Matt

I recognize the area very well seeing as I live there! I think there is an old rumor that the main locomotive shops for the PRR at one time were to be built at Mifflin.

Some more PRR





Matt

This is the area I am working on now ... track arraignments varied from year to year, and some tracks that were drawn straight, were in fact unstraightened, and shifted about, I presume so that service areas would have enough room for workers to work in, and after several derailments MOW crews put the tracks back in service after a quick haphazard track realignment. My trackwork is much too straight and too tidy, where as the areas had very curved and cinder/sand covered tracks wobbling all over the place. This makes replicating it in Trainz very difficult, as wobbly tracks are the hardest to lay in Trainz. Sometimes I wonder what I should do ... lay the tracks straight and tidy ... or bent, wobbly and untidy ? What do you think, how one should lay tracks ?





Unstraightened: Looks like a child laid tracks on a bad UTC route


Straightened: Looks too perfect


I'm looking for a simple building that is in back of the Scales Hump tower ... can't find one like it




Altoona never had any speed retarders, and instead employed dozens of car rider brakemen, that handbraked railcars on the weighing scale, and rode the railcars all the way deep into the hump classification yard bowl, where a gas powered rail jitney would bring all the brakemen back to the hump, where they did it all over again, all day long, sunup, to sundown. Most traffic in the yard was EB loaded coal trains.

I have this hump working fabulously slow at 2 mph, by using multiple pink speed retarders, and Slavedrivers Squeal Track, where railcars almost come to a stop on the scale, then they again begin to roil away down into the classification yard bowl at 5 mph