Photo of the week for 1/31/2006

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Photo of the week for 1/31/2006

I decided to put up a TS-related "photo of the week."

This one is from a little railroad they have at Remlinger Farms in Carnation, WA, near the Microsoft campus. I rode this with my son a few months ago. It's real steam as you can probably tell, and the guy thought I was a bit odd when I asked him if we wasn't running the boiler pressure a little close to the redline considering all the kids on board. :-)

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	Michael发表: What happened to this blog? Am I missing something here? Says the last entry was in March. It's May. Did everyone move somewhere else? Did they cancel MSTS2 again? 6 月 4 日
	PalmerRichard发表: If you want a ride of your life, try the DURANGO SILVERTON Narrow Guage RR between Durango and Silverton, Colorado. I personally feel that this route should and MUST be included in the new addition of MTS X. It would be well worth it to drop one of the other Japanese routes, which I found useless in the SIM anyhow, as I primarily drove the Marias Pass route 97% of the time anyhow. The DS&RG RR is 55 miles of sheer beauty; going through 2000 ft. deep canyons, along the Animas River; (River of Lost Souls); and right through the middle of the Winnamuchee Wilderness through SW Colorado. as it passes the area called the "Needles", you can look straight up 5000 feet and more of sheer rock to the summit of the mountain(s). You are traveling behind the San Juan Range on the back side of Molas Divide (10,910 ft.); and Highway 550. Of course, back in the silver mining days of the Old West, the original route also ran from Montrose through Ouray, and all the way to Pagosa Springs, and points South into New Mexico, in what is now the Navajo Reservoir. The original trestles and bridges can still be seen on this drive, even though the tracks have long since been gone. The most spectacular views are along Hwy. 151 between Arboles and Pagosa Springs and points South to Dulce, New Mexico and into Chama. (Hwy. 64-84). At the height of the Summer Season, the DS&RG runs 3 coal fired Steam Locomotives daily on a round trip schedule. The round trip is completed in about 7 1/2 hours, so be prepared for a day of living, and breathing coal smoke and enjoy the ashes and cinder as well. The remembrance of this excursion is well worth the time, money and scenery that is rapidly going away as more and more individuals are discovering SW Colorado as a place to settle and retire. R.D. Palmer (AFD-Ret.) 5 月 8 日
	George发表: Gee I am surprised you haven't been to the Wisconsin Dell's Riverside and Great Northern RR 4 月 5 日
	没有名字发表: Don't worry about the boiler pressure, that's what the popoffs are for. :) I spent last summer running a little steamer at http://www.littletootroad.com. It's a 15" gauge Crown coal burner. If you've never had the chance to run a real steamer, you need to find a way to get your hands around a throttle. Train Simulator is wonderful, but there is no way to capture the FEEL, the kinesthetics, of a real train of any size, large or small, on the computer. It's the same thing with Flight Simulator. There is no way to capture that "seat of the pants" feel of the aircraft that pilots understand. Roy has it right. As long as you have plenty of water, run it at full pressure. Incidentally, in addition to the popoffs (2 of them), there are "soft plugs" in the boiler that will melt and release the pressure if the water gets dangerously low. They are a nuisance to replace, but much better than having a boiler blow up in your face. That can ruin your entire day! 3 月 15 日
	Roy Harwood 发表: Hi I am looking forward to the new train sim, Thanks for all the work you guys will put into it to make it work. In your posting you questioned the driver running the boiler pressure so close to the red line, This is done to get the best out of the engine and it is not dangerous to do so unless you run out of water, if that happens then you have to have to shovel out the fire and let any steam out safely also you have the safety valves to release the pressure quickly. The safety valves are checked that they are operating correctly before an engine is allowed to move off to start work. Hopefully the driver explained this to you, but as you have not mentioned it I thought I would tell you so you and anyone else reading your post would not get worried and think that the driver was being irresponsible in his operation of the steam engine. Kind regards Roy Harwood 2 月 18 日

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