Good route for banking (loco helper) activities

[farecoal]

As the title says, I'm wondering if there is a route that is good for making activities where you can have locomotives help each other up a hill. (banking)

Edit: Woops, messed up the title. Sorry about that.

 

[stovepipe]

I'm building a route that requires bankers and I'm wondering about this too........

 

[jadebullet]

I am currently working on the Reading Shamokin Division. Once I get to the Locust Summit Grade, you will be ready to throw some 2-10-2s onto the rear of the grade at Gordon and push your train up the steep grade.

Route is coming soon(TM)

 

[trainzroxthehouse]

Banking is when a train tilts on it's axis when it hits a curve.

If I understand you right, you are looking for a route with lots of hilly regions. I was planning on creating a route resembling Colorado / ex D&RGW. It would be pretty neat/ have mountains in it. I could send you the CDP, if you like.

 

[gfisher]

You could try "The Loops" which has a 2.5 percent ruling grade and lots of tight curves that would have required helpers westbound to Asheville from New Fort, NC. It is very hilly terrain....the great smokies.

 

[philskene]

Port Ogden & Northern.

On both North Pass and South Pass there are spurs (sidings) for banker locomotives.

See the " * " on the map:

(Note to Mods - image is compressed.)

Phil

 

[ColPrice2002]

Banking is when a train tilts on it's axis when it hits a curve./QUOTE]

Hin the UK that's "tilting" - "banking" is the use of an additional locomotive to assist the main train going up a bank (hence "banking").
The actual operations could be quite complex - depending on whether the banking loco was double heading - or pushing. It also required special orders (to get the bankiong loco back to the bottom!)

Colin

 

[cascaderailroad]

If a "sleeper" is a RR tie...what is an overnight passenger sleeping car called in the UK ?:hehe: And are helper locomotive engineers called: Bankers ?:wave:

 

[Buncs]

Ties? Engineers?.....

If a "sleeper" is a RR tie...what is an overnight passenger sleeping car called in the UK ?:hehe: And are helper locomotive engineers called: Bankers ?:wave:

In the UK, ties are what you wear round your neck and locomotive engineers are the people who build locos - we have people called "Drivers":hehe:

Regards

Dave

 

[jadebullet]

If in Europe, Trucks, are called Bogies, what do your fighter pilots call an unidentified blip on their radar screen.

Also, why are they called that? The European origin of the Boogyman was called the Bogieman. Now, rather than being something creepy, it sounds like the Bogieman crawls out from under your bed, and leaves a Blomberg in your bedroom before disappearing.

 

[farecoal]

How large/small are these routes? I could go for a small route if There aren't a ton of dependencies.

 

[tdstead]

Fot a USA route goto TPR Trainz Pro Routes

www.trainzproroutes.org/teha.html

Links at bottom of page

Get your hands on Tehachapi, they have a files with all assets except whats on DLS, believe me its worth it so easy to get.

Tom

 

[philskene]

farecoal --

"How large/small are these routes ... a ton of dependencies."

This might depend on which version of Trainz you are running.

For PO&N see here:

http://forums.auran.com/trainz/showthread.php?t=53333&highlight=ogden

With some screen shotz here:

http://forums.auran.com/trainz/showthread.php?t=23892&highlight=ogden

The additional downloads for TS2010 are minimal. For earlier versions, from a clean install of Trainz, it is about 100MB. If, however, you have already installed other routes the additional download might be considerably smaller.

This is South Pass:

Phil

 

[ColPrice2002]

If in Europe, Trucks, are called Bogies, what do your fighter pilots call an unidentified blip on their radar screen

erm, trucks are those things that drive on the roads - filled with goods....

(from truckle - a cart)

Unidentified blip = "UFO"?

"Two nations divided by a common language"...
Colin

 

[jadebullet]

By unidentified blip, I meant that it was unknown whether it is friend or foe.

Bogie=Neutral
Bandit=Hostile.

I forget why we use the term truck for our bolster asseblies. I am sure that there is a perfectly logical, (or maybe stupid) reason for the name though. Same with yours. Plus, you guys call trucks, lorries.


While we are divided by a common language, it is still fun to discuss it. :hehe:

Personally, I think that Colour looks better.

 

[farecoal]

Is there a route that just has one big straight grade instead of a climbing curve?

 

[Danieldd4]

You could try "The Loops" which has a 2.5 percent ruling grade and lots of tight curves that would have required helpers westbound to Asheville from New Fort, NC. It is very hilly terrain....the great smokies.

I downloaded this through DLS tonight and it seems to have a boatload of missing dependencies

 

[cascaderailroad]

You have to download the missing dependencies, after the fact. Sometimes a dependency has an error in their own config file, that sometimes can be easily corrected. Dependencies that are a problem, and can not be found, can be fixed by: "delete missing dependencies" tab. Lots of assets and routes work just fine, with errors, and with missing dependencies.

 

[gfisher]

it seems to have a boatload of missing dependencies

The route has no missing dependencies. YOU have missing dependencies.

 

[Danieldd4]

The route has no missing dependencies. YOU have missing dependencies.

that maybe the case :'(