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Railfanning The WWW

May 11th, 2009 Posted in News, Prototype

Work and Mother’s Day weekend have taken a heavy toll on my personal hobby-time.

A few items did catch my attention when I finally got back online this afternoon, and I thought I would share them with you.

Click on the site titles to see the stories:

FireGeezer.com

A New Mexico police car happened to get high-centered on BNSF tracks just in time for a meet.

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FireGeezer.com

Boston’s Green-Line experienced an anomoly while a 24 year-old train driver was bust texting messages on his phone.

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PassingLoop.com

Now you can have your very own z-scale model railroad in a briefcase for way more money that you might guess.

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CaddyLars Subdivision

Lars is back at it, creating supreme Trainz routes. This time he is working on another DEM/Google Satellite mega-yard named after another of his children… Ida Yard.

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GAURC Forum

David (DAP) seems to be getting very good response to a request for beta-testers of his new commodity car movement and traffic management system for Trainz. We support his idea, and look forward to a release version.

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World of Subways

TML Studios’ World of Subways, volume 1 “The Path” won the Serious Games Award 2009 at the CeBIT trade show in Germany.

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  1. 2 Responses to “Railfanning The WWW”

  2. By Dapet on May 11, 2009

    Hey Rick,

    It is not a commodity system. It is a Car Movement and Traffic Management System. Great for simulating prototype operations on any Trainz railroad. Imagine every car in every train that is emitted onto your route by a portal has a specific destination that is displayed by simply clicking on the car. And when a car is delivered to an industry and the load/unload operation is complete, a new destination is displayed. All with no intervention by the Driver. Makes yard operations so real.

    Beta testing is progressing nicely. The only major bug that has been found thus far is that TRS2009 imbeds a conflicting application in every route that is created that keeps this system from intializing. Word is that SP2 will fix the problem. In the mean time, routes that are created in TRS2006 and imported into TRS2009 work just fine.

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  3. By RGoodell on May 11, 2009

    Sorry David, I knew that…

    Exactly why I shouldn’t blog during the same hours I should be sleeping.

    Fixed it.

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