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Youngstown NG Links / UMR 2020 Shots
Good Thursday to all,
We have been having some nice weather, as plod on with the repairs and Gardening changes, and fixing all those little things that over time have changed. As well, now that I am little older, wiser, and more experienced, I need to redo some of my plumbing and electrical work. All good and it is starting to take shape.
Speaking of redoing things I tripped across a neat little YouTube Video about an entrepreneur who has taken to saving an Old Steam Locomotive, and various other interesting Industrial Machinery, he is very down to earth, and Runs a Museum WIP, there are quite a few Videos, I think some of you will find this most interesting. Here is the link, and some additional Links.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/rolling.ingot/
The J&L Narrow Gauge Railroad is a part of the Youngstown Steel Heritage Museum in Youngstown, OH. Built to 24" gauge, the J&LNG is a demonstration railroad designed to show the type of narrow gauge...
J&L Narrow Gauge Railroad
Search domain jlnarrowgauge.blogspot.comhttps://jlnarrowgauge.blogspot.com
The restoration of the J&L 58 reached its one year milestone on December, 30, 2015. On Dec. 30, 2014 the 58 was delivered to Youngstown Steel Heritage after a couple of months work in constructing the first section of the J&L Narrow Gauge Railway Youngstown Line. Here is a recap of the first year of restoration of the 58.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ia85kcBkK-U
Akron, Canton & Youngstown RR: History, Map, Photos
Search domain www.american-rails.com/acy.htmlhttps://www.american-rails.com/acy.html
The line was also originally narrow-gauge and had managed to open a route from Allegheny, Pennsylvania (just across the Allegheny River from Pittsburgh) to Youngstown, Akron and Fairport, Ohio. Following B&O's takeover the railroad ignored the PA&W in favor of a new line from Akron to Chicago Junction, known as the Akron & Chicago Junction ...
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I continue work on New England Merge Route, I experienced some Crash To Desktop (CTD) a couple of times when I was in Surveyor Mode, after a few times, 10 maybe, I decided to DBR rebuild, and still the CTD's continued, but then I had an aha moment, and check the Layers tab, come to find out, I didn't complete my last Merge properly, by combining the Route Layers, it is OK to make Route Layers to keep things separated, howevery when you merge Route Layers from unique Routes, it Trainz apparently crashes if those layers are not merged. I usually do this automatically, but for some reason, forgot too......
Still working on Scenery and track connections between the merge points......I think I have got most of the new Tiles added that'll I need joint connections and edge point extensions for Horizon dropoff improvements......I think after finish this Route up, I want to run on NG Routes for a while, and too my memory, I had several NG Routes I was modifying last year and the the year before..
A little change is good when you've been on a Route for a while.
Tonight will take a peak at one of all time favorite Routes, UMR (Ultra Mega Route) there are several versions, I currently up to the latest one made for 2019, if I recall correctly. This Route is good size, with lots of Industries, good mainline runs.
There is a lot of Water areas to enjoy as you come up from one of many endpoints of the Route.
Over here, we have Split Branch lines of the mainline, will take the Right Switch here with a load of Tank Cars. I believe we have Coal and Gas Refinary on this side?
Will travel a few miles here to our next Industrial Stop.
But first, will do a reverse move into the other Branch line and drop some Freight for the other Industrial Leads, there is a local Crew working this side of the two Branch Lines, they come and pick up this loads shortly and drag them to the Shippers locations.....Saves us time, as we don't come back this way, our branch-line continues East and rejoins the original Mainline we got off of here. I guess in sense, you could say it is Short Cut as we bypass some Cities. Will pick up some Coal Loads, drop off some empties and continue on.
While I think about it, this Route sports some terrific Extended Hood Signaling system....
Running some D&RG Power on the head end, I like this module, I believe it is Heritage Class, but don't quote me....LOL We headed into the downtown Metro Center you see above in this picture.
Continuing up towards the City along beautiful River Point views....
Overhead view of the River area, looks like we are heading into dual Main line.
On our Branch Line, we have entered into nice Forestef area.
I have brought this up before, I do not like Freight Trains going thru a Passenger Station, there are some Passenger who don't mind it, but others don't care for long freight dragging thru their passenger station, they would prefer the Freight to find another way, a lot of times wind and dust picks up.
So we will be putting Siding setup, where by the Freight passes by on the left in behind the Passenger Station.......I plan on maybe keeping about 100 Feet away from the Station, shouldn't be hard to put in this runaround, it will also help with delays too. We do run some long trains here 1-2 miles long or longer if it is inter-modal train.......
But is for my Bucket list.........
In defense of the RR, they would prefer Passenger Trains have their own dedicated Rail Lines, so as to minimize delays to Freight Operations, Freight is the main money maker for most Railroads, at least that is what I have been told over the years.......
And that will do for tonight.......Thanks for dropping by.
Good Thursday to all,
We have been having some nice weather, as plod on with the repairs and Gardening changes, and fixing all those little things that over time have changed. As well, now that I am little older, wiser, and more experienced, I need to redo some of my plumbing and electrical work. All good and it is starting to take shape.
Speaking of redoing things I tripped across a neat little YouTube Video about an entrepreneur who has taken to saving an Old Steam Locomotive, and various other interesting Industrial Machinery, he is very down to earth, and Runs a Museum WIP, there are quite a few Videos, I think some of you will find this most interesting. Here is the link, and some additional Links.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/rolling.ingot/
The J&L Narrow Gauge Railroad is a part of the Youngstown Steel Heritage Museum in Youngstown, OH. Built to 24" gauge, the J&LNG is a demonstration railroad designed to show the type of narrow gauge...
J&L Narrow Gauge Railroad
Search domain jlnarrowgauge.blogspot.comhttps://jlnarrowgauge.blogspot.com
The restoration of the J&L 58 reached its one year milestone on December, 30, 2015. On Dec. 30, 2014 the 58 was delivered to Youngstown Steel Heritage after a couple of months work in constructing the first section of the J&L Narrow Gauge Railway Youngstown Line. Here is a recap of the first year of restoration of the 58.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ia85kcBkK-U
Akron, Canton & Youngstown RR: History, Map, Photos
Search domain www.american-rails.com/acy.htmlhttps://www.american-rails.com/acy.html
The line was also originally narrow-gauge and had managed to open a route from Allegheny, Pennsylvania (just across the Allegheny River from Pittsburgh) to Youngstown, Akron and Fairport, Ohio. Following B&O's takeover the railroad ignored the PA&W in favor of a new line from Akron to Chicago Junction, known as the Akron & Chicago Junction ...
===========================================
I continue work on New England Merge Route, I experienced some Crash To Desktop (CTD) a couple of times when I was in Surveyor Mode, after a few times, 10 maybe, I decided to DBR rebuild, and still the CTD's continued, but then I had an aha moment, and check the Layers tab, come to find out, I didn't complete my last Merge properly, by combining the Route Layers, it is OK to make Route Layers to keep things separated, howevery when you merge Route Layers from unique Routes, it Trainz apparently crashes if those layers are not merged. I usually do this automatically, but for some reason, forgot too......
Still working on Scenery and track connections between the merge points......I think I have got most of the new Tiles added that'll I need joint connections and edge point extensions for Horizon dropoff improvements......I think after finish this Route up, I want to run on NG Routes for a while, and too my memory, I had several NG Routes I was modifying last year and the the year before..
A little change is good when you've been on a Route for a while.
Tonight will take a peak at one of all time favorite Routes, UMR (Ultra Mega Route) there are several versions, I currently up to the latest one made for 2019, if I recall correctly. This Route is good size, with lots of Industries, good mainline runs.
There is a lot of Water areas to enjoy as you come up from one of many endpoints of the Route.
Over here, we have Split Branch lines of the mainline, will take the Right Switch here with a load of Tank Cars. I believe we have Coal and Gas Refinary on this side?
Will travel a few miles here to our next Industrial Stop.
But first, will do a reverse move into the other Branch line and drop some Freight for the other Industrial Leads, there is a local Crew working this side of the two Branch Lines, they come and pick up this loads shortly and drag them to the Shippers locations.....Saves us time, as we don't come back this way, our branch-line continues East and rejoins the original Mainline we got off of here. I guess in sense, you could say it is Short Cut as we bypass some Cities. Will pick up some Coal Loads, drop off some empties and continue on.
While I think about it, this Route sports some terrific Extended Hood Signaling system....
Running some D&RG Power on the head end, I like this module, I believe it is Heritage Class, but don't quote me....LOL We headed into the downtown Metro Center you see above in this picture.
Continuing up towards the City along beautiful River Point views....
Overhead view of the River area, looks like we are heading into dual Main line.
On our Branch Line, we have entered into nice Forestef area.
I have brought this up before, I do not like Freight Trains going thru a Passenger Station, there are some Passenger who don't mind it, but others don't care for long freight dragging thru their passenger station, they would prefer the Freight to find another way, a lot of times wind and dust picks up.
So we will be putting Siding setup, where by the Freight passes by on the left in behind the Passenger Station.......I plan on maybe keeping about 100 Feet away from the Station, shouldn't be hard to put in this runaround, it will also help with delays too. We do run some long trains here 1-2 miles long or longer if it is inter-modal train.......
But is for my Bucket list.........
In defense of the RR, they would prefer Passenger Trains have their own dedicated Rail Lines, so as to minimize delays to Freight Operations, Freight is the main money maker for most Railroads, at least that is what I have been told over the years.......
And that will do for tonight.......Thanks for dropping by.