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[ptrainman]

Bill

Where did you get those auto maxs?:udrool: :udrool: :udrool:

 

[slave-driver]

They are a work in progress. Not even ready for beta testing yet.

Bill

 

[Gandalf0444]

Today there is a very special load. A bigboy has arrived and was dropped off to be brought to its new resting place.
It was moved from Utah up to the Northeast.

The train is backed down upon a GP40 and 2 RS3s 1 RS3 in the front pulling and another in the rear pushing.
The bigboy gets pushed out of the yard and off towards its final destination.

The train takes the switch off the main line and heads towards the school.The bigboy most likely passed underneath the very last signal.

The bigboy passes the old tower hidden away from view of the main line. This used to be a major line back in the day,but now its only run on a few times a day.Rumors are spreading that Amtrak may make some sort of service on this line,eventually.But like anything else with Amtrak it could take years.

The bigboy is pushed and pulled across the low bridge where in the summer time would be a full out swamp.

The bigboy goes across the last ever RR crossing passing the concrete plant and the Sunoco Gas Station,dang gas prices keep going up and up soon it will be to much just to drive 2 feet.

The train rounds the bend,with the trestle for the traffic that goes in the opposite direction,which is rarely used now since the traffic has not been needing to pass each other.

Got this beautiful shot of the front of the bigboy looking down the driveway of the local High School.

The Bigboy passes the driving range,doesn't look like anyone is out to play today but the engineer blows the horn anyway in hopes of making a few golfers miss the ball.

The bigboy now approaches its final resting place in the fenced in enclosure

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[Gandalf0444]

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The train stops to allow the rear RS3 to decouple then the train slides forward in order to throw the switch.

The bigboy crawls up to the signal,then stops and slowly gets pushed down the track towards its new home.

The train backs down a less the noticeable track to the pen.

Now with the bigboy in its resting place the workers will get ready to put up the final piece of fence to keep people from sneaking in and destroying the locomotive,can't trust people these days.

 

[titaniclover]

Nice pics and a cool story Gandalf.
Good work. Nice shots everyone!

Cheers,
Adam

 

[Gandalf0444]

Nice pics and a cool story Gandalf.
Good work. Nice shots everyone!

Cheers,
Adam

Thanks:hehe:
Please note to everyone who looks at my last posts above,as you can see the bigboy still has steam,but hopefully by the final release of the route I will have one without the engine specs etc at my disposale,so it would be just a piece of rolling stock.

 

[WCL]

Nice pics and a cool story Gandalf.
Good work. Nice shots everyone!

Cheers,
Adam

That is pretty cool ....Keep up the good work :wave:

 

[Gandalf0444]

That is pretty cool ....Keep up the good work :wave:

Thanks,the route will be done soon

 

[SR6900]

Just clone the bigboy in cmp. Open the config and delete all the smoke, hornsound, enginesound, and replace the enginespec. You need to do the same for the tender. It has steam effects on it too. You shoud rename it with static in its name.

 

[spiffy101]

Awesome shots everybody!

 

[Gandalf0444]

Just clone the bigboy in cmp. Open the config and delete all the smoke, hornsound, enginesound, and replace the enginespec. You need to do the same for the tender. It has steam effects on it too. You shoud rename it with static in its name.

Thanks but there is gonna be a reskinned one as well once dylan gets finished,look at TCR for more info.

 

[WCL]

3 brand new GE CN units lead this tank train south out of Fond du Lac

 

[knifeswitch1]

Nice shots!!
Can I ask you the names of those tank cars? I just did a quick check on the DLS but couldn't find those specific ones. I thought I had them but I guess not.

 

[WCL]

Hope this helps :wave:

 

[knifeswitch1]

Thanks a bunch!

 

[Cozmo®]

The BNSF is called in to switch out the Bay Area Paper Company as the paper companies SW-1 has a compressor failure. This line is usually served by the ELS but their yard had no power this morning. Must be something going on.

 

[Ferrous]

Ohh man, Cozmo! It's too good! :udrool::udrool::udrool:

(guess it's my turn to ask about the tankers, lol) Might I ask if those tankers are available?

And while we're here, did you tilt the power poles like that or did they come pre-tilted?

 

[WCL]

Ohh man, Cozmo! It's too good! :udrool::udrool::udrool:

(guess it's my turn to ask about the tankers, lol) Might I ask if those tankers are available?

And while we're here, did you tilt the power poles like that or did they come pre-tilted?

The tankers are prolly in the DLS if thats what ya wanna know...Same with Adams OMYA tankers....I took that pic of them cars and someone skinned them for me....

 

[Cozmo®]

Ohh man, Cozmo! It's too good! :udrool::udrool::udrool:

(guess it's my turn to ask about the tankers, lol) Might I ask if those tankers are available?

And while we're here, did you tilt the power poles like that or did they come pre-tilted?

If you click the turn tool and hold shift, or alt I dont remember, it tilts the poles.

 

[WCL]

Today we took another ride up to Byron Hill....We caught 2 trains....1 CN Potash train with 4 units and a Green Bay bound BNSF coal train passing the Quad Graphics plant