I was checking the site logs, and I saw that someone was looking for Norfolk and Western's 4-8-4 "J" number 611 for Microsoft's Train Simulator. Well, I am pleased to report the following information:

The model, and apparently its textures, have been created. The *.ENG file, which is to say the numbers that the simulation will use to replicate the performance of the locomotive, is under production. I have no information about any particularized sound suite.

More information is available by clicking here. This link may become inoperative at some time in the future, due to the nature of the forum software.

And praise to God & 'Racehorse' Smith, for a last-generation N&W steam locomotive pack is not too far from completion. Included will be the following locomotives:

J 611
M 1100
A 1218
Y3 2009
Y6 2171

Also, an accurate model of Jawn Henry, the N&W's coal-fired steam turbine monster of the 1950s, has been seen in production. Rule Roanoke, baby. To borrow a phrase from Gihren Zabi, sieg steam! (So long as it's N&W steam, that is.)

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Here's a little something that I wandered across while goofing off listening to Portishead's 1994 release, Dummy. It's a parody of Charlie Daniels' hit "The Devil Went Down to Georgia", re-written by Southern Pacific agreement employees, whose contracts have been picked up by the SP's new owner, the Union Pacific Railroad.

So as not to clog the front page with this, it's in the extended entry. more...

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I found an Amtrak-themed song while browsing my SiteMeter records. It's set to a song by the Beatles, "Happiness is a Warm Gun". I've never heard the original, so I can't even try to sing the song. Without further adieu, "Amtrak's Hope is David Gunn".

Interesting.

Link recovered from here.

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