Tuesday, September 11, 2007

20 years apart

One of the fun things with MSTS is that you can run activities set in different time periods. Although the route scenery cannot be altered, the rolling stock and service patterns can be; so, for example, on the 'Dorset Coast' route activities have been created for anything from the 1940s through to the present day - and with some excellent rolling stock in the public domain this means driving anything from (steam aside) CORs and EPBs to VEPs and Desiros. Third-rail heaven!
Although my Oxfordshire route is very much set in 2007, I've played around on it with rolling stock from the days of sectorisation through to the present. So, for example, here are two shots of Culham 20 years apart.
First up is 47406, 'Rail Riders' (which I only ever saw once - at Banbury - particularly disappointing to me as a member of the 'Rail Riders' club), racing north with an InterCity cross-country service:



And next we have the latest release from the Making Tracks stable, SuperVoyager 'David Livingstone':



Anyone with any taste would, of course, opt to be riding behind 47406 rather than in one of those rather dull multiple units.

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