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Some ideas for conventional an unconventional routes..
You might want to use them as the basis for trying to get an
entry in respect of the 2 Mile Challange (the details of which
are on Wulf site.)
OK here goes with some suggestions...
- Ye Olde Stream Contrivance.
- It is convetionaly thought that the steam engine is a modern
(18th Century) invention However some recnty historical investigations have suggested that such a device may have been
in use a lot earlier in coal based economies of North East England
and in parts of Germany as early as 2 centuries before.
- Finicular railways...
- Difficult to do in BVE but not impossible
(OF course a furnicular line for a monastry worked on water
power is more plausible than the above.)
Not sure how you would do the power settings in BVE though ;-)
- O Rileys Mine - The 'Tradiatonal' Mining line..
In terms of carts- Prop supported tunnels etc..
Of course if your wanting a fantsay line then
Dwarf gold mines and so on come into it.
(I'd called the sceanrio O-Rileys mine in case
anyone wanted to do a fnatays Irish line and
some little green men;-) )
- Drax Deep - Would need research but this could be and acurate
potrayal of Modern mineral/solid fuel extraction
operations such as those used by the former
Britsh Coal/NCB operations in the UK.
(Drax being the name of one such site in W Yorks?)
So far a number of countries have featured in BVE but I haven't yet
heard of routes showing
India, Russia, China, The Netherlands, Switzerland, Wales or Man
(all of ehich are great railway nations for various reasons
And there is STILL no Toytown express.. :-(
And one final idea come from the world of current affairs!..
It is 2004 and reconstruction of the infrastructure in a
certain gulf state is continuing. In order to improve the
oppurtuinites in the captial, the transportation of the captials
6 million citens around the city is to be made a priority.
A possible option is the construction of Subway.
So does anyone have any ideas what it might look like
or possible routes?
Current thinking sugessts a US involvement in reconstruction but
that doesnt nessacrily mean the subway will use Amercian standards
or practice. European or even Russian enginerring and technology may be used instead given previous involvment in the region.
(Alternativly the reconsturction body may look at examples
elsewehere in the region such as Cairo or Theran.)
The traction 'power' would of course be electric,
but in a country with oil it seems sensible that
any generating station would be oil fired as opposed
to other availble power sources like wind or Hydro-electric
schemes..
Any thoughts on what the Tigris Banks Subway might look like?
(Unless of course anyone can think of a more suitable Arabic
name for a transit system in Bagdhad.)
Alex
(Owing to the number of BVE forums now operating permission is granted
for others to propoate this message to those forums provided it remains intact and this notice is not removed.)
Some ideas for conventional an unconventional routes..
You might want to use them as the basis for trying to get an
entry in respect of the 2 Mile Challange (the details of which
are on Wulf site.)
OK here goes with some suggestions...
- Ye Olde Stream Contrivance.
- It is convetionaly thought that the steam engine is a modern
(18th Century) invention However some recnty historical investigations have suggested that such a device may have been
in use a lot earlier in coal based economies of North East England
and in parts of Germany as early as 2 centuries before.
- Finicular railways...
- Difficult to do in BVE but not impossible
(OF course a furnicular line for a monastry worked on water
power is more plausible than the above.)
Not sure how you would do the power settings in BVE though ;-)
- O Rileys Mine - The 'Tradiatonal' Mining line..
In terms of carts- Prop supported tunnels etc..
Of course if your wanting a fantsay line then
Dwarf gold mines and so on come into it.
(I'd called the sceanrio O-Rileys mine in case
anyone wanted to do a fnatays Irish line and
some little green men;-) )
- Drax Deep - Would need research but this could be and acurate
potrayal of Modern mineral/solid fuel extraction
operations such as those used by the former
Britsh Coal/NCB operations in the UK.
(Drax being the name of one such site in W Yorks?)
So far a number of countries have featured in BVE but I haven't yet
heard of routes showing
India, Russia, China, The Netherlands, Switzerland, Wales or Man
(all of ehich are great railway nations for various reasons
And there is STILL no Toytown express.. :-(
And one final idea come from the world of current affairs!..
It is 2004 and reconstruction of the infrastructure in a
certain gulf state is continuing. In order to improve the
oppurtuinites in the captial, the transportation of the captials
6 million citens around the city is to be made a priority.
A possible option is the construction of Subway.
So does anyone have any ideas what it might look like
or possible routes?
Current thinking sugessts a US involvement in reconstruction but
that doesnt nessacrily mean the subway will use Amercian standards
or practice. European or even Russian enginerring and technology may be used instead given previous involvment in the region.
(Alternativly the reconsturction body may look at examples
elsewehere in the region such as Cairo or Theran.)
The traction 'power' would of course be electric,
but in a country with oil it seems sensible that
any generating station would be oil fired as opposed
to other availble power sources like wind or Hydro-electric
schemes..
Any thoughts on what the Tigris Banks Subway might look like?
(Unless of course anyone can think of a more suitable Arabic
name for a transit system in Bagdhad.)
Alex
(Owing to the number of BVE forums now operating permission is granted
for others to propoate this message to those forums provided it remains intact and this notice is not removed.)
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