Ragins Train Sets

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I just wanna try and focus on Australian stuff now that I'm in the mood for it again

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mood's a thing for cattle and loveplay I getcha

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idek what that means lmao

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Dune joke

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYUolurihOQ

right at the 1 min mark

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oh lmao

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I like how the signals just stick out of the station roof lol

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it's like when I put signals under a bridge

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This is a train order signal, its only purpose is to tell the engineer if they need to pick up written instructions from the operator (station agent). Green = no orders, yellow = slow down to grab a hoop with orders attached, red = stop and sign the orders to verify you received them.

It has no block information, and is controlled by a big lever inside the station beside the operator’s desk.

The operator gets the written instructions from the dispatcher (signaller) by telegraph.

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Comeng Tangaras done

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i heart multi level ee em yous

nj transit edition eventually™

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an NJT transit version of these?

would be kinda cool tbh

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talking about the mlv3s

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oh yh, I'll do them soon

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so same basic concept

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now that I have the code for it

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both in real life and in game lol

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yee

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I shouldn't be surprised you know about a seemingly too tall signal

[this joke is probably funnier in my head]

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Heheh

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i dont think that ACMU ever happened 😛

oh wait no it did im blind

ignore me

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some ACMUs were converted into unpowered coaches in the 80s, compleate with new interiors.
Interestingly thay operated as 1st class coaches, although (to my knowladge) in it's original electric form there were only basic-fare railcars....

also suprisingly the unconverted ones had a bit longer service lives...

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goober

tbf it is very flat so I'd be keen to re-do it

or at least the roof

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Lol the unbuilt alco designs looks funny

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guess who drew a locomotive in the wrong scale and now needs to re-do it?

rararararararararararara

becoming violent

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It can be a fictional narrow or broad gauge vehicle :3

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yee

onto the pile of locos that I can't use that I'll add to something else in future

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goober

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look I've had 3 days so far of constant social events

my brain isn't working as it should

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I haven't left the house in three days :3

Was supposed to on friday at least but the work got cancelled

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lmao

go outside and touch grass

the weather has been nice as of late

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nah its too cold

_>

I've gone native up here

as soon as its below 20c I freeze now

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lmao

you've got terminal queenslander then

I'm so sorry

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Condolences on being Australian

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well might have something to do with the houses up here being made of crepe paper

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nah, Australia no.1

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lmao, don't get me started on my opinions of the BCA

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and I'm living in an old workers cottage

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annoyingly the construction code in NZ is so much better

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At skin cancer probably x

Glad i don’t have to deal with the deadly laser xxx

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power bill be damned i'm putting the heater on >_<

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tbf we are lmao

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that's what I've been doing to me roommates chagrin

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I live by myself so I only have myself to complain at 😛

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valid lmao

I think if I lived alone I'd go a bit mental

I need a base level of social interaction or I go rabid and start chewing through extension cords

VR E class done 🙂

pantographs are munted but that's a template issue which I'll fix in future

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https://klipy.com/gifs/marikiplier-e-meme-lord-farquaad-1

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dissapointed

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I miss 2016 shit

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tbh that was a weird year lmao

also I wanna do some early mixed traffic fictional DC locomotives for ORP

so I might see if I can do 1 or 2 while my hair dries

8 long 2-Co-Co-2 or 7 long 1-Co-Co-1?

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Aww it's cute

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trying to do something akin to early electric locomotives in japan since they tended to be built in the UK and for 1500v DC, so they'd be similar

but it's annoying because there's not references

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I wanna see a balcony boxcab in ORP

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2-Co-Co-2 it is then

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Something like the EF50

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yee, that's actually what I based it on lmao

but I'll do it as broad/standard gauge around 1924 or so

as a what if NSW or Victoria did some long distance electrification alongside the suburban scheme

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balcony electric locomotives kinda go hard in the SRA scheme

I do also want to do another fictional locomotive just before the start of WW2 as in the late 1930s NSWGR was considering electrification to Goulburn

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Ooh neat

Damn, we could have had electrics on the SHL

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yeah 🙁

it's odd because you'd think they would have gone for either the northern or western lines first

no idea why they were considering the southern line

also for the 1930s design, idk if I wanna do a boxcab or something more streamlined

actually I might just do an Australian version of the PRR L6/P5

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cute!

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I think this works as a late 1930s electric locomotive?

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Does it have Buchli drive?