MeowRailroad
CKRail
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQIu0GkaFZM Last Canadian logging railroad, using awesome long-range SW1200's! I am thinking about making this.
This would be fun to build
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I agree this is a cool operation - a very simple one at that but very cool indeed.
I like the speeder vehicle. It looks like something from the 1950s or 1960s and also how the trucks carry their trailer back to the top of the run so they can then carry more logs down to the load out. It's too bad the videographer didn't catch the crew unloading the truck trailers from the trucks.
The problem I see as an operation session for a route like this is the single commodity. If you are interested in doing a more complex but similar operation, you might want to look at the Port Tillimook Bay Railroad in Oregon.
http://www.potb.org/industrialpark/railroad.html
Though part of their ROW is abandoned today, you can easily rebuild this in Trainz.
An alternative is the Coos Bay Rail Link, also in Oregon which has lots of high bridges and tunnels as well.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coos_Bay_Rail_Link
In this case the operation would be a bit of everything from logs to wood pellets, wood chips, general goods, even passengers if you want. your rolling stock could be SW1200s and everything in between including a steam locomotive.
Have fun with this.
John
I like the speeder vehicle. It looks like something from the 1950s or 1960s and also how the trucks carry their trailer back to the top of the run so they can then carry more logs down to the load out. It's too bad the videographer didn't catch the crew unloading the truck trailers from the trucks.
The problem I see as an operation session for a route like this is the single commodity. If you are interested in doing a more complex but similar operation, you might want to look at the Port Tillimook Bay Railroad in Oregon.
http://www.potb.org/industrialpark/railroad.html
Though part of their ROW is abandoned today, you can easily rebuild this in Trainz.
An alternative is the Coos Bay Rail Link, also in Oregon which has lots of high bridges and tunnels as well.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coos_Bay_Rail_Link
In this case the operation would be a bit of everything from logs to wood pellets, wood chips, general goods, even passengers if you want. your rolling stock could be SW1200s and everything in between including a steam locomotive.
Have fun with this.
John
MeowRailroad
CKRail
I'm okay with just logs. When I saw those trailers, I thought "Wow, they still have disconnects!" I love those SW1200's, although I wonder why they didn't just buy Geeps instead of modifying SW1200's into road engines. The cabeese are a fine example of why logging cabeese are called crummies.
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True, but then again their mainline might have tighter curves than what a Geep can handle so their smaller SW1200s fit the job. Did you notice the dynamic brake tanks on the roofs?
If you like just the wood industry fine then, but operating interest might wane as time goes on...
John
MeowRailroad
CKRail
I hadn't thought of the radius. I don't actually know what part the dynamic brakes are, but I saw the awesome stuff on the roof, and heard that they have DB.