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Time for a bump.

Some pics from a WIP, the EBT yard in Mt Union near the Timber Transfer crane. Here a standard gauge boxcar gets a set of 3'ng trucks and sets out for a destination in Robertsdale some 30 miles to the south. From the mid 1930s to 1955 this was a fairly common sight on the EBT with 1 or 2 standard gauge cars coupled in behind the tender. Heavy track and slow speeds kept the cars from rolling too much on the ng trucks.

EBT 0-6-0 No 3, a 1923 Baldwin sg loco that worked the yard on the sg and dg track. Last working the yard in 1956 today it still sits in the engine shed where it spent most every night of it's working career. Here it sets out the PRR boxcar under the crane. The car is lifted one end at a time and the trucks swapped out for the ng ones.

EBT 2-8-2 No 18 left the extra with 18 empty hoppers and combine No 16 on the dg main and backs down to pick up the re-trucked boxcar before coupling it to the head of the train and starting on the trip south.

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Scenery objects are just stand ins at the moment - many distinctive structures on the EBT still have to be made.

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its been a bit quite round here this past month or so ,, here's a few shots for the start of the Uintah re-vegetation project.

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i'm missing norm Hart

we could regularly rely on Norm to post stuff here, sorry this is just more Uintah .
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Gilsonite water and wool are on this freight approaching Mack, I repainted Ben Dorsey's yellow cabeese as I have yet to see any pics with a light colored caboose on the Uintah, all look the same color as the other rolling stock.
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trying out new vegetation which i think improves things considerably. I'm adding a 'position ' tag so all grass . sage and trees will be slightly below ground , a huge time saver as i tends to drag every item lower so they look more realistic . However this will obsolete a lot of stuff on the DLS, but it will save me countless hours of work, apologies to folks who have already downloaded the early versions . This creek is now silted up and full of vegetation, so it is pretty much unrecognizable from what it was in the 1920s.
 
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The EBT is looking very promising Bob .how many years before you get it complete do you reckon ?
Dan, thanks for asking. The goal posts keep moving and my best estimate right now is not anytime soon and probably it will never be finished.

The above scene in Mt Union (around the "faked in" Timber Transfer crane) lacks several models that are essential to recreating the EBT in Trainz: EBT's coal prep/cleaning plant, Timber Transfer crane, NARCO brick factory (2 other brick factories are located in MT Union and serviced by EBT and/or PRR). All unique structures and use combinations of sg, 3'ng and dg track. No models of them are available.

The PRR tie/creosote plant and yard is one of the goal post movers. I had no good info about it until last Jan. when I brought, "Tracks Around Mt Union" (pub 2018). It includes sg, 2'ng and dg track and used the only 2'ng loco owned by the PRR. All 3 brick factories get pretty good treatment in the book. 1 had its own 3'ng to quarries on both side of the Juniata R. So I'm revising the tracks in the MT Union area to suit some new info while waiting for some industries/models to get created.

Ben Dorsey is another sorely missed individual. He made a lot of the EBT specific content that's currently available. He had a model of the Timber Transfer crane and an EBT enclosed water tank under construction. Neither made it to the DLS and are now lost. I've used 2 of his WP&Y tanks to stand in for the 4 EBT tanks with similar looks for the time being. The 1 I used in Mt Union had to be modified (script, attach pts, tracks and triggers) to handle the dg track that now connects to it and it still needs a new paint job.

It all takes time.

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Dan, thanks for asking. The goal posts keep moving and my best estimate right now is not anytime soon and probably it will never be finished.

The above scene in Mt Union (around the "faked in" Timber Transfer crane) lacks several models that are essential to recreating the EBT in Trainz: EBT's coal prep/cleaning plant, Timber Transfer crane, NARCO brick factory (2 other brick factories are located in MT Union and serviced by EBT and/or PRR). All unique structures and use combinations of sg, 3'ng and dg track. No models of them are available.

The PRR tie/creosote plant and yard is one of the goal post movers. I had no good info about it until last Jan. when I brought, "Tracks Around Mt Union" (pub 2018). It includes sg, 2'ng and dg track and used the only 2'ng loco owned by the PRR. All 3 brick factories get pretty good treatment in the book. 1 had its own 3'ng to quarries on both side of the Juniata R. So I'm revising the tracks in the MT Union area to suit some new info while waiting for some industries/models to get created.

Ben Dorsey is another sorely missed individual. He made a lot of the EBT specific content that's currently available. He had a model of the Timber Transfer crane and an EBT enclosed water tank under construction. Neither made it to the DLS and are now lost. I've used 2 of his WP&Y tanks to stand in for the 4 EBT tanks with similar looks for the time being. The 1 I used in Mt Union had to be modified (script, attach pts, tracks and triggers) to handle the dg track that now connects to it and it still needs a new paint job.

It all takes time.

Bob Pearson

Yes Ben is greatly missed, I could not have done the Uintah without his help. He died with the bulk of the items completed, although I could not persuade him to make a few buildings in mack, he was really interested in railroad items, not cafes :)
The EBT was one of the first NG roads I was interested in when I was a callow youth ( whereas now I am a callow old man ) ,as my engine driver grandfather brought back a swag of trains mags from the US in the 50s and one of them contained a big article on the line.Hope you can get the bulk of it completed one day.
 
I feel sometimes envious then one looks at yours layouts, but i can share some projecet i have in Trainz right now. steam eninge NAEJ no 4 KM NELSSON and the coach NAEJ BCo 3 (Second and thrid class boggie coach no 3)

https://www.mediafire.com/view/f71j6ppyzz6zr7c/3d_BC03.jpg/file Bassed of https://dst15js82dk7j.cloudfront.net/248888/84281839-U5o6m.jpg

https://www.mediafire.com/view/eu691fpht4s8a80/4t.jpg/file and https://www.mediafire.com/view/q3j3vrnrkmjyomh/2t.jpg/file bassed of https://h24-original.s3.amazonaws.com/248888/24938878-IYUNY.jpg





 
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very nice

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I feel sometimes envious then one looks at yours layouts, but i can share some projecet i have in Trainz right now. steam eninge NAEJ no 4 KM NELSSON and the coach NAEJ BCo 3 (Second and thrid class boggie coach no 3)

https://www.mediafire.com/view/f71j6ppyzz6zr7c/3d_BC03.jpg/file Bassed of https://dst15js82dk7j.cloudfront.net/248888/84281839-U5o6m.jpg

https://www.mediafire.com/view/eu691fpht4s8a80/4t.jpg/file and https://www.mediafire.com/view/q3j3vrnrkmjyomh/2t.jpg/file bassed of https://h24-original.s3.amazonaws.com/248888/24938878-IYUNY.jpg





 
Can't let this thread disappear entirely. It's been two weeks since the last post and almost a month since the last pictures. I spent a good chunk of January making small tweaks to dangavel's version of the Timber Ridge Line (almost entirely replacing transparent vegetation, thanks TS2019)

2-8-0 #1 was too small to get this train (247 tons) over the grades between Gant and Timber Ridge, so 0-6-6-0 mallet #2 worked as a helper, seen here shortly after cresting the hill and drifting downgrade.
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Coming out of a tunnel and preparing to stop at Mine Siding to cut off the helper since it is all downhill to Timber Ridge.
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The train crew does a final brake check while #2 drifts back to the switch for the helper track.
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This was all part of a session I threw together and am still working the bugs out of so there will probably be more pictures in the future of #1 on her sojourn.
 
it would be nice to see your timber ridge session on the DLS, as I'm too busy to creatt one, I am working part time on a sg version of the route in 2019, with the 30 inch section moving to 3ft , so there would still be a substantial narrow gauge portion , but its very part time pastime ,as the Uintah Rwy is still got masses of items to complete ,so don't hold yer breath for it.
 
Things seem to have gone rather quiet round here recently , this is form the newly revamped ( changed from 30 inch to 36 inch ) section of the timber ridge, as always.... i wish Norm Hart was here to drive this .... he would probably have flooded us with screenshots
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Passing the Iron Horse Saloon
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Crossing 3rd street in downtown Como
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Dorsey Junction
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Turning the train on the Klingerville Wye to back it into the yard
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Having arrived at the yard, all that is left to do is take the locomotive over for servicing, then it is time for a lunch break
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