USA Pics

[simulatortrain]

The "boxcars" are often airslide covered hoppers. They do resemble boxcars at a glance.

Buffer cars are assigned to that service and are stenciled as such (this one is not). The outlet gates are sometimes welded shut or plated over to prevent unloading.

 

[CEFX2014]

NS AC44C6M's 4000 and 4001 pass a field with an empty coal train

 

[metrarailboy1]

@Metra - We are calling that wasted resources here

Not that one boxcar would change anything, but oh well, its law...

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That's Merica for ya. Hot shot by the way.

 

[nickrailfan]

Holy crap what have I started

From what I know, they are to help keep the locomotives on the rails in the event of a derailment. The weight of the buffer car aids in that. There's nothing it can do against an explosion two cars back from the locos.

Correct me if I'm wrong.

 

[2ndlt]

Paperwork says cleaned and purged, good to go. Haha

 

[cascaderailroad]

An inspected and perfectly operational buffer car can initiate the proper braking of all the rest of the railcars in the consist ... but when this happens: runaway tank car of whatever, coming right your way

https://youtu.be/a-smEEHYdGQ

 

[WCRULEZ]

An eastbound UP intermodal slowly rolls through Daneville with a nice lashup

 

[barti_1]

barti_1

 

[nickrailfan]

@WCRULEZ I think you forgot to set up those crossings lol
BTW Where'd you get that Dash 8?

 

[WCRULEZ]

Yeah, The routes a work in progress. Only that scene is set up. The Dash 8 is from the DLS. Search C40-8 and you'll find 'em.

 

[davesnow]

 

[jonwray]

Quick reskin that turned out very well, unfortunately the route decided to be finicky and not want to load ANYTHING past this point so this is the only screenshot I got. Inspired by a Facebook comment, I call this the "Swooshbonnet".

 

[WCRULEZ]

A rare 3 way meet occured today in Daneville...

The first is the Daneville local sat in the siding, with SD40-2 #3173 leading


Then an eastbound coal drag rolled through town with ES44 #5459 in charge


A westbound stack train met him, ES44 #5481 leading


Later that evening the power of the Daneville Local was tied down on a rickety old spur to the lumber yard, while the end of an intermodal can be seen rolling through the background

 

[mnrr]

I love making evening shots

 

[gtasa]

SP 745 passes a CN grain train while traveling to Memphis.

Click to view.

 

[Trainz_12_fan_100]

@gtasa its sooo small.

 

[epa]

@gtasa its sooo small.

It's a thumbnail. Click it to see it full sized.

Matt

 

[nickrailfan]

@WCRULEZ Thanks, I found them.
@davesnow Looks great Dave!

 

[slenderman8888]

AWVR 777 departs the yard WITH NO ONE AT THE CONTROLS! the throttle was accidentaly left in notch 8 with just the independent brake to hold it

 

[jkuhn]

FUN FACT! It's impossible for a train to run away in notch with just the independent on , alerter would prevent that from happening. (At least now)

The movie makers shouldn't of used a Dash 9 to represent the runaway since they have alerters and safety devices preventing this... oh well.