motorcycle Posted December 14, 2010 Share Posted December 14, 2010 Thanks for the information. I've never seen a 189 at Plattling before! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium NGT6 1315 Posted December 14, 2010 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 14, 2010 By the way, here's a photo of Lokomotion's "Zebra" 189: Click. Smart-looking loco, if you ask me! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Gerbil-Fritters Posted December 15, 2010 Author Share Posted December 15, 2010 Still snowing, and life carries on as normal.... plenty of shunting and freight movements. One day I'd like to have a look at this place for real. Perhaps we should have an RMWeb forum day trip.... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium NGT6 1315 Posted December 15, 2010 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 15, 2010 Still snowing, and life carries on as normal.... plenty of shunting and freight movements. One day I'd like to have a look at this place for real. Perhaps we should have an RMWeb forum day trip.... That would be a Railpool class 185 in this screengrab you posted, by the way . Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Gerbil-Fritters Posted December 15, 2010 Author Share Posted December 15, 2010 snowing again... wish it would snow here Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
motorcycle Posted December 15, 2010 Share Posted December 15, 2010 I can't get the website or the deg.net archive section to work at the moment is it the same for everyone else? I haven't got the website to load since 3 this afternoon? (now 8:30) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon Gwinnett Posted December 15, 2010 Share Posted December 15, 2010 Its back up, but has been flakey all day. Lots more snow I think: Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Gerbil-Fritters Posted December 16, 2010 Author Share Posted December 16, 2010 More snow over night, everything looking white and pristine. Unlike the view from my office, where it's raining and everything looks muddy and dull. Plenty of shunting over night, and a fresh coat of snow on the hoppers and boxcars in the foreground storage roads. The signal box (?) and the shunters bothy look especially inviting in this weather. This elok was motoring through the station, quite the fastest freight I've seen... so... who's modelling Plattling then? 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Re6/6 Posted December 16, 2010 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 16, 2010 Perhaps we should have an RMWeb forum day trip.... :) 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Chris116 Posted December 16, 2010 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 16, 2010 Perhaps we should have an RMWeb forum day trip.... Nice idea but according to DB timetable site you could leave St Pancras International on a Wednesday at 08:55 and arrive Plattling at 21:56. Which means the return would have to be the next day on the Thursday at 08:00 and arrive St Pancras Internation at 21:03. Maybe we would need a day in Plattling which makes it a three day trip! Still it certainly sounds like it would be fun although my wife would not be happy at the cost! Chris 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
motorcycle Posted December 16, 2010 Share Posted December 16, 2010 the plattling webcam site is still not working for me. Is it the same for everyone else too? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
brian daniels Posted December 16, 2010 Share Posted December 16, 2010 Not worked for me all day Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Kazmierczak Posted December 16, 2010 Share Posted December 16, 2010 I was on it around lunchtime and it was working fine then. Despite the snow the shunters were shunting and the electric-hauled freights (remember them in the UK?) were passing through with their usual efficiency. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Re6/6 Posted December 16, 2010 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 16, 2010 Working again now . Looks like there's been new snow and it's colder. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Gerbil-Fritters Posted December 16, 2010 Author Share Posted December 16, 2010 ... and plenty busy as usual. Proper wagonload shunting all through the night, magical. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Kazmierczak Posted December 17, 2010 Share Posted December 17, 2010 Looks bitter there this morning. What's parked-up in the siding at the bottom of the screen? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Re6/6 Posted December 17, 2010 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 17, 2010 Looks bitter there this morning. What's parked-up in the siding at the bottom of the screen? Could it be a rail grinder or tamper of some sort? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
motorcycle Posted December 17, 2010 Share Posted December 17, 2010 Since the timetable change there seems to be more multi-coloured locomotives through Plattling? Rather than the mainly red ones before last week I'm not sure what locomotive this is. It looks sort of like that Porsche livery, but then it's not a Taurus, so I don't know Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Gerbil-Fritters Posted December 17, 2010 Author Share Posted December 17, 2010 Pretty as a picture. Snow, twilight, yard lights and signals illuminating the snow... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium NGT6 1315 Posted December 18, 2010 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 18, 2010 I'm not sure what locomotive this is. It looks sort of like that Porsche livery, but then it's not a Taurus, so I don't know That looks like a TXL 185 to me: Click. They have a bunch of silver 185s. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon Gwinnett Posted December 18, 2010 Share Posted December 18, 2010 Going back to an earlier comment - how are we going to model this. As with anything good, it ain't gonna be there forever, and its just too much a part of life to let it go easily. So, my thoughts are: N - if trying to do the whole site - but its still going to be huge? How does one do catenary in N? TT - I don't know enough about to speculate HO - Would be even huger (Sp?) so I guess might have to be a "layout design element". One thought I had was that actually the modellogenic bit might be looking back towards the camera - with the signalbox/shunters' bothy, the loop siding in the foreground - were these originally the access to the burnt out engine shed? and so on. An excuse to have the shunters parked up, and perhaps the start of the fan of sidings - really need to see what it looks like out to the bottom left of the picture - some of the you tube clips help. Maybe there's a templot genius out there who could overlay the google earth photos! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
motorcycle Posted December 18, 2010 Share Posted December 18, 2010 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ahmom29KODE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfXTxA84jdU&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6urfEXhHN8&feature=related 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Re6/6 Posted December 18, 2010 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 18, 2010 Going back to an earlier comment - how are we going to model this. As with anything good, it ain't gonna be there forever, and its just too much a part of life to let it go easily. So, my thoughts are: N - if trying to do the whole site - but its still going to be huge? How does one do catenary in N? ...and I thought that I was mad, thinking just that! N catenary is not a problem (if you don't mind the grossly overscale wires). Sommerfelt do some basic stuff as most of the overhead here looks to be large spans. Viessmann do some lovely double wired and triple wired posts (if a bit expensive!) I reckon that the main viewing angle could be as 'from the webcam', a view that we now know so well! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Re6/6 Posted December 18, 2010 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 18, 2010 ... Damn you Sir! Still more stuff to waste time on! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike at C&M Posted December 18, 2010 Share Posted December 18, 2010 You put it in your garden, and just tell everybody that it is under the snow! Much cheaper that way. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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