Market Day on the PLR

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Market Day on the PLR

Post by ge_rik » Sun Oct 29, 2017 7:09 am

My latest offering .....


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Post by tom_tom_go » Sun Oct 29, 2017 8:49 am

A joy to watch Rik.

I would love to blast a live steamer through the woodland on your line.

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Post by Peter Butler » Sun Oct 29, 2017 10:18 am

Amazing, convincing, wonderful work there Rik. Everything looks so right in your settings and with the dappled sunlight through the trees I really thought I was there!
So glad the weather was fine for your NZ visitor, he looked as though he was in railway heaven too.
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Post by ge_rik » Sun Oct 29, 2017 12:12 pm

Peter Butler wrote: Sun Oct 29, 2017 10:18 am So glad the weather was fine for your NZ visitor, he looked as though he was in railway heaven too.
He's the first visitor I've had who's thoroughly enjoyed shunting the pickup goods at each station on the line. He's over here for three weeks and so may make a return visit.

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Post by bazzer42 » Sun Oct 29, 2017 1:53 pm

Beautiful scenery Rik. Are you a natural gardener as the planting looks so realistic ? I agree with Tom it's the sort of backdrop that you would like to see your own stock running in.

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Post by ge_rik » Sun Oct 29, 2017 3:01 pm

bazzer42 wrote: Sun Oct 29, 2017 1:53 pm Are you a natural gardener?
In some ways I suppose I am ....... In that nothing is particularly planned (as in nature). I stick something in the soil and if it grows it's in the right place, if it doesn't then it ain't. It's a sort of Darwinian approach.

Thanks for the compliment, though. I have tried to create a natural feel to the landscape.

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Post by ge_rik » Sun Oct 29, 2017 3:29 pm

BTW - You may have noticed that the pickup goods travels down the line without shunting wagons and does most of its shunting on the way back up the line. This is because the sidings at the intermediate stations are all facing Up, so it makes shunting a lot easier. The only exception is, of course, if any wagons need to be picked-up and then delivered further Down the line (which can sometimes happen).

I worked this trick out after running trains for about six years - and then discovered that this sort of practice was done on 'real' branch lines.

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Post by Soar Valley Light » Mon Oct 30, 2017 8:25 pm

Superb Rik. So nice to see the line in full swing. Great to see the new locos at work too! :thumbright:
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Soar Valley Light wrote: Mon Oct 30, 2017 8:25 pm Superb Rik. So nice to see the line in full swing. Great to see the new locos at work too! :thumbright:
Thanks Andrew. Yes, decided it was time the Black Hawthorn was given some general goods duties and the Stainz bash was allocated to a special train. Some of my early builds are getting a bit jealous of the attention the new girls are getting so maybe the next run will be Southwold focused.

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Post by methsman » Tue Oct 31, 2017 7:25 pm

Great vid ,it’s nice to see trains running at a nice slow plod , with a purpose , in beautiful scale like surroundings . Very inspirational
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Post by ge_rik » Tue Oct 31, 2017 10:12 pm

methsman wrote: Tue Oct 31, 2017 7:25 pm Great vid ,it’s nice to see trains running at a nice slow plod , with a purpose , in beautiful scale like surroundings . Very inspirational
Thanks - that's very reassuring :thumbright: . You've put your finger on exactly what I aimed to achieve when I built the railway. Still got a way to go in building-up the lineside infrastructure, but getting there bit by bit.
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Post by FWLR » Wed Nov 22, 2017 6:36 am

Love this video Rik, looks like you had a great time running on it... :thumbright: :thumbright:

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Post by ge_rik » Wed Nov 22, 2017 12:39 pm

FWLR wrote: Wed Nov 22, 2017 6:36 am Love this video Rik, looks like you had a great time running on it... :thumbright: :thumbright:
Yes, it was a good couple of days. Great to have a fellow operator solely devoted to running the pickup goods. That meant I could run the other trains around it - almost like running a real railway except we communicated directly rather than through block instruments and signals ....

I have realised though, I need to set up the market day goods services at least the (model) day before, to give time for the local farmers to have their livestock and other saleable items loaded early in the morning on Market Day. I'm going to have to draw up a two-(model)day schedule for Market Days. Just trying to decide whether to incorporate that into the computer program. It might not be necessary as the Market Day Special is not part of the normal traffic scheduling

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Post by FWLR » Wed Nov 22, 2017 12:57 pm

I think I would put it as a separate program for the Market Days myself, if I was intelligent enough to do it...lol :lol: :lol: :lol:

Seriously it would keep it safe from being deleted and easier to make any fine tuning wouldn’t it Rik.

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Re: Market Day on the PLR

Post by LNR » Thu Nov 23, 2017 2:04 am

I'm going to have to draw up a two-(model)day schedule for Market Days.
As Mr. Butler has said "this is what keeps us awake at nights"
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