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| Australian Mining Railway (30,000 ton trains/2.5km) Sim 23/02/2015 at 13:49 #69501 | |
pilotdude09
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Hey Guys, Wondering if anyone would even use this but more importantly develop it. Can get some screen shots of the system but basically 2 yards, 2 ports, several mines with baloon loops, some single line working atleast 250km bi directional duplicated line, to simulate the whole line would be nearly impossible but it would be a good mix and could just simulate certain parts. But the trains are 2.5km long, 30,000 tons and mix up the hi rails, track machines, service trains etc it would be quite fun! I can get quite a bit of info if anyone needs it. will post some screen shots of the train control system if anyones interested in seeing them. Log in to reply |
| Australian Mining Railway (30,000 ton trains/2.5km) Sim 23/02/2015 at 17:10 #69502 | |
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slatteryc
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Would love to see some photos...
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| Australian Mining Railway (30,000 ton trains/2.5km) Sim 23/02/2015 at 17:22 #69505 | |
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Jersey_Mike
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I think those lines use North American style signaling (and locomotives). Sounds like a job for Train Dispatcher 3?
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| Australian Mining Railway (30,000 ton trains/2.5km) Sim 24/02/2015 at 05:22 #69522 | |
ozrail
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Sometimes I would increase the freight train lengths to 990 metres like here in Australia. Although many freight trains are up to 1400 metres in length. As I used to say one freight train in two postcodes at the same time.
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| Australian Mining Railway (30,000 ton trains/2.5km) Sim 24/02/2015 at 07:40 #69524 | |
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pilotdude09
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Problem with train dispatcher is its not realistic, doesn't have the points settling etc just throws them over and click and its green and away it goes. Boring in my mind. Where as sim sigs programming allows it to be realistic and fit in with actual operations like points frame, shunt signals etc. Log in to reply |
| Australian Mining Railway (30,000 ton trains/2.5km) Sim 24/02/2015 at 13:29 #69531 | |
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Jersey_Mike
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" said:Problem with train dispatcher is its not realistic, doesn't have the points settling etc just throws them over and click and its green and away it goes. Boring in my mind.That depends on your definition of realistic. It's a fairly accurate representation of North American (and Australian) pattern CTC interfaces and in fact TD3 track layouts are used by the ATCS community to display live train movements. One interesting feature is that it supports some sort of external interface that can be used to run model train layouts or even drive the inputs to preserved lever frames. See for yourself. https://www.acm.jhu.edu//~sthurmovik/Railpics/13-05-11_SEPTA_CONTROL/SEPTA_1234-Control-Room-RRD-Big-Board-R1-R3-R8.html Log in to reply |
| Australian Mining Railway (30,000 ton trains/2.5km) Sim 25/02/2015 at 02:15 #69564 | |
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uboat
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there's also a you tube cab ride available.
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| Australian Mining Railway (30,000 ton trains/2.5km) Sim 25/02/2015 at 13:15 #69576 | |
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Jersey_Mike
250 posts |
" said:there's also a you tube cab ride available.Link? Log in to reply |
| Australian Mining Railway (30,000 ton trains/2.5km) Sim 25/02/2015 at 16:08 #69580 | |
DriverCurran
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Dare I say this but here are three links :lol: http://www.modelrailwayimports.com/product.php?PID=2369&CID=35&BID=12&TID=0&SID=0&q= or was it not that kind of link  Paul 
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| Australian Mining Railway (30,000 ton trains/2.5km) Sim 26/02/2015 at 02:20 #69606 | |
BarryM
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" said:" said:Not a cab ride but count the number of wagons! Viewthere's also a you tube cab ride available.Link? Barry Barry, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Last edited: 26/02/2015 at 02:22 by BarryM Reason: Missed link Log in to reply |
| Australian Mining Railway (30,000 ton trains/2.5km) Sim 26/02/2015 at 03:51 #69607 | |
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Jersey_Mike
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" said:" said:That looks like the national network, not the private ore network built to North American standards." said:Not a cab ride but count the number of wagons! Viewthere's also a you tube cab ride available.Link? Log in to reply |
| Australian Mining Railway (30,000 ton trains/2.5km) Sim 26/02/2015 at 06:33 #69608 | |
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ozrail
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Australia has many privately run coal and iron ore railways running to North American standards and locomotives. Mainly in Western Australia and Northern Queensland. I wanted to visit them one day instead of going to the USA, but I think the West Coast of America is almost closer.
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| Australian Mining Railway (30,000 ton trains/2.5km) Sim 26/02/2015 at 09:08 #69609 | |
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BarryM
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" said:" said:Here is another one for you Mike. View" said:That looks like the national network, not the private ore network built to North American standards." said:Not a cab ride but count the number of wagons! Viewthere's also a you tube cab ride available.Link? Here is a better video. View Barry, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Last edited: 26/02/2015 at 09:15 by BarryM Reason: Added info Log in to reply |
| Australian Mining Railway (30,000 ton trains/2.5km) Sim 26/02/2015 at 12:55 #69623 | |
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maxand
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Trainz has a driver simulator of this. Maybe one of the others, e.g., RailSimulator has an add-on [video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ajoh-OPBKCE[/video] [video width=425 height=344 type=youtube]Ajoh-OPBKCE[/video]
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