If only you could get the old ball and chain to say as much!
Switch to Firefox and you won’t have this problem.
I use Firefox, but on the IE browser click on the torn page icon. That is what I have read about IE8 compatibility.
If you were to model a locomotive works, you could run any engine from that builder. If you created your own, anything is possible.
Expanding to the realm of operations, the following is possible: supplies/ parts being brought in, in-plant switching of said materials & engine hostling,and testing & break-in of locos.
The last one- loco testing, would be done on a stretch of the connecting r.r.'s line. With an expansion, you would then be modeling THAT r.r. as well! This could bring additional switching, locals (bringing in parts to the works, as well as local industries), even through passenger and freight trains. Don’t forget the biggest +, being able to see engines together that would be next to impossible anywhere else!
I have more problems since I upgraded my firefox to 10.2 then I did before I upgraded on their recommendations…
I use ie 8 with no problems…
Larry. I do agree with you that most people have no problem using IE8 and I am one. My IE browser works well when I do use it.[Y] I just don’t use it much as I just like the way Firefox is laid out and it’s features.
I should have written, Try Firefox and see if it works for you. Not to make it sound as if only Firefox works.
RB18, Expanding on your idea. If just a railroads shops for engine and rail car repair and over haul was modeled it too could be a layout just as your builders idea. Both would give lots of operations.
Methinks you are perhaps mixing up “favorite trains” and “favorite locomotives”, and wanted to say “If you want an excuse to have and run lots of locomotives on your layout, you could model a place where locomotives are built”.
Or maybe you, when you write “locomotive works”, are mixing up where locomotives are originally built and where locomotives are serviced, maintained or rebuilt
You specify “from that builder” which makes me think you are talking about a plant building locomotives, instead of a railroad locomotive terminal or a railroad back shop or a leasing company or a locomotive re-builder or some such place - where you might see locomotives from different builders.
Anyways - another pretty common model railroading excuse to have an eclectic mix of locomotives (from various eras, builders and railroads) is ye olde “railroad museum”.
It all boils down to what you want to model - what era and what type of place.
Smile,
Stein
If you want lots of different locomotives from lots of different railroads, modeling the transition era or before, just `imagineer’ a joint locomotive servicing terminal operated by the TRRA (St Louis.) That way you could include the old (PRR G5, E6 and K4 classes) as well as the Santa Fe Blue Goose and other fresh off the erecting floor power.
I ALREADY have almost all of my favorite trains, and run them all in regular service. Of course, the JNR was a national monopoly, so I don’t have to imagine how some JNR loco, EMU or DMU got to a place where its prototype ran on a regular basis.
OTOH, The Tomikawa Tani Tetsudo is truly freelance, and those wild and woolly kitbashes were generated between my personal ears. I don’t have to come up with any excuses.
Chuck (Modeling Central Japan in September, 1964)