UK Screenshots for Pre BR Blue. High resolution warning.

Oh yes Graham enjoying yourself with Trainz is very important. Point and signal rodding can be a challenge and it's one that I often shirk even though the railways I build tend to not have any great complexity when it comes to trackwork or signalling. I've found the point rodding by Steve Flanders to be very good with a nice appearance, but no doubt other forum members will have more suggestions that might be useful.
 
@KotangaGirl: Your GER loco in post #1741 looks quite bizarre; is it a 'marriage' of a tram bogey with a loco body?

Rob.
 
Rob, - I fitted that particular engine with tram skirts of my own devising using attachment points I created in PEVsoft attachment maker. It also has a bell I fitted the same way. All very much legally needed if I wanted to run that particular engine along the roadside sections of my 'what-if' GER affiliated tramway layout.
I know the GER really didn't have any engines like that one, but they never had a tramway running between Hopewood on Sea and Windweather either so I figured I could give history a good hiding and put together an engine I needed for my tramway that wasn't yet another G15. Interestingly no-one commented on the 'stretch-limo' super-C53 I posted pictures of a couple of days ago. It's hiding articulated bogies under its tramskirt and is fitted with a bigger boiler. My excuse is that I just happen to like steam tramways and tram engines. (Super-C53 based on John Whelan's simplified 17.5 series tram engine for Middleton for laptops; - thanks John.)

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euromodeller said:
Edited to add, great shots Anne!
Looks like I'll have to give your tramway a place on my hard drive!
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It's still quite a long way off as yet Graham. In places it's still a case of, 'Look upon my empty layout boards and despair', but reasonable progress is being made.
 
KotangaGirl said:
Rob, - I fitted that particular engine with tram skirts of my own devising using attachment points I created in PEVsoft attachment maker. It also has a bell I fitted the same way. All very much legally needed if I wanted to run that particular engine along the roadside sections of my 'what-if' GER affiliated tramway layout.
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Did you also make the model of that locomotive? It doesn’t look like the one on Paulz Trainz and I’ve never seen any quite like that one.
 
KotangaGirl said:
It's still quite a long way off as yet Graham. In places it's still a case of, 'Look upon my empty layout boards and despair', but reasonable progress is being made.
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No problem, I'll reserve a space then :)

Must admit, I've got 1 or 2 (cough) unfinished routes of my own dating back to 2010 :eek:
 
re post #1739 euromodeller

Point rodding, cranks and signal wire.

In the following surveyor screenshot, I have used;

NSWGR rodding and cranks items by "elstoko" <kuid 368725> (on the DLS)

pednia (signal wire) by the Polish author "rbach" <kuid 263713). Look for Zwroty odchylne http://trainz.krb.com.pl/download-category/pednia-drutowa

AEL TRK Shoe guard by "tisischeese" <kuid 5013967> (on the DLS)

Add a few bit and bobs plus invisible point levers to complete.

Track is non procedural by "rumour3" and the signal box by barn700 (Paulstrainz).

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Cheers, evilcrow
 
hholdenaz said:
Did you also make the model of that locomotive? It doesn’t look like the one on Paulz Trainz and I’ve never seen any quite like that one.
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No it's not one of Paul's engines. Paul's 'Crystal Palace' 2-4-2 tank engine is very different and can't be skinned into a GER blue livery due to the way the textures are done. My example is a nicely made freelance engine that came from a Trainz 'Thomas the Tank Engine' website of all places and I've reskinned it and fitted it with a cab interior as well as some other odds and ends here and there. It's supposed to be representing an engine that might have been acquired by the GER from one of the many minor lines that they absorbed in the later years of the 19th century.

The 2-4-2T can be found here https://cograilway3d.wixsite.com/cograilway3d/locomotives It's in NER livery and its creator calls it an NER 'F10'.
 
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I never knew that rbach had signal wires. Obviously rbach uses Polish (continental europe) practise which involves pairs of wires. I believe that UK practise was a single wire to a signal, with the signal counterweight to return the arm to the horizontal position when the lever was released (tension released from the wire). This is something that will take some research to see what would be required to produce models of a UK installation. The transition from vertical to horizontal and transition from one direction to another in the horizontal plane was around a sheave (grooved pulley wheel). Some shots show that 90 degree horizontal changes had chain working round the sheave, with wire to chain connectors at each end of the approximately three feet length of chain. It appears to be an overlooked area of railway modelling.

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http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/uploads/monthly_05_2013/post-14048-0-17912600-1367850904.jpg

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http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/uploads/monthly_05_2013/post-14048-0-82812200-1367850758_thumb.jpg

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Thanks all for your guidance.
I have downloaded lots of FPL, cranks and rods but left the elstoko nested cranks alone because I thought they might not be suitable, having seen the screenshot I'll download them now.
I was wondering about the covers between the tracks, couldn't think what to search for! Now I know.
I am familiar with rbach, he has lot's of goodies for us Euro modellers :)
I have plenty to work with now, just wish I could turn off those nuisance points/turnout red and green arrows, makes working near point blades vey difficult with them in the way.

I also came across this interesting document during my research..
http://ambisengineering.co.uk/pointroddingwiresystem_pt1.pdf
http://ambisengineering.co.uk/pointroddingwiresystem_pt2.pdf
 
Ctrl+H toggles the point arrows. Alternativley toggle the "show in game help" option in your session quickdrive settings.
 
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Great pics. Very much agree with the sentiments about the need for prototypical UK signal wiring, the Euro stuff doesn't look quite right!

Winter's back and so, therefore, is Lavenham....

The early morning pick-up goods heads southwards to Lavenham from the Bury direction.
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Under a dramatic sky, a morning Liverpool St - Norwich express is diverted via Bury due to the mainline being snowed-in north of Ipswich.
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Hmm, Lavenham looking quite good in TRS19! :D

Paul
 
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