You may imagine my surprise. That picture led me off elsewhere to discover the correct terminology for WD Landies.
It was also Jolly Useful to discover that the military kept/keep their own railways and that they were jammed with random old locos that they parked in odd sidings and then forgot about.
The Crest stuff is a lot harder to get my head around. Although as breakable as any other large network, it seems.
I enjoyed this attempt to describe a performance problem as an improvement: http://www.crestco.co.uk/publications/tech_news/sse-tech4.pdf
Yes, it paints a picture of a funny off-shoot world of Military Steam, a sort of mutant hybrid of Steam World and Soldier World. I wonder if they still do any of that stuff, or if it's all helicopters now ?
I found the site via the Risks Digest: http://www.crestco.co.uk/news/newsletters/newsletter-oct2006.pdf
In which they are rather forthright about some breakage.
I need to learn more about how it all bolts together; there's an awful lot of banking jargon in there to confuse a chap. I had just handwaved all this stuff away, but I think I need to understand it now. I don't wonder that it'll be more rubbish than I expected.
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Date: 2006-11-10 06:21 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-11-10 07:58 pm (UTC)It was also Jolly Useful to discover that the military kept/keep their own railways and that they were jammed with random old locos that they parked in odd sidings and then forgot about.
The Crest stuff is a lot harder to get my head around. Although as breakable as any other large network, it seems.
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Date: 2006-11-10 10:44 pm (UTC)http://www.crestco.co.uk/publications/tech_news/sse-tech4.pdf
Yes, it paints a picture of a funny off-shoot world of Military Steam, a sort of mutant hybrid of Steam World and Soldier World. I wonder if they still do any of that stuff, or if it's all helicopters now ?
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Date: 2006-11-10 11:26 pm (UTC)In which they are rather forthright about some breakage.
I need to learn more about how it all bolts together; there's an awful lot of banking jargon in there to confuse a chap. I had just handwaved all this stuff away, but I think I need to understand it now. I don't wonder that it'll be more rubbish than I expected.
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Date: 2006-11-10 11:35 pm (UTC)I imagine it's all Herculeseses and containers.
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Date: 2006-11-11 12:15 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-11-13 11:01 pm (UTC)