XPost: uk.railway

On Sun, 27 Aug 2017 14:42:11 +0100, "hounslow3@yahoo.co.uk" <hounslow3@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

On 27.08.17 1:12, Recliner wrote:

<damduck-egg@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

On Sat, 26 Aug 2017 14:35:20 +0100, Peter Crosland <g6jns@yahoo.co.uk>
wrote:

On 26/08/2017 12:58, BirchangerKen wrote:

People on here use the word 'consist' as a noun to mean the formation >>>>> of a train. I was unaware of the term for most of my life, only
encountering it when I bought a PCRail simulation of Champaigne,
Illinois about 15 years ago.

Has this classic American verbification been used for long in the UK? >>>>> I'm not aware of it being used on the Underground, despite Yerkes
bringing in some American terms such as car for carriage. Or did it
arrive with EWS?

It has been around for many years in the UK and is interchangeable with >>>> rake.

It is has become quite common amongst some of those who dabble with
model Railways.
DCC or Digital Command Control is a system where each prime mover has
it's it own chip that be can addressed by a digital coded signal to
control the vehicle unlike the varying of voltage and polarity that
those of the Hornby Dublo and Tri-ang era would have been using.
Track for DCC is always live with a high frequency AC current with the
control signals embedded with it and after a few years of different
systems the world basically agreed on the ones established by American
modellers so their terms prevail.
One of them is Consist which for the modellers purpose is controlling
two or more locos together as you would need to when say double
heading but also remembering that in North America multiple locos are
controlled together frequently and they will often be distributed
along the train to save strain on couplings and other considerations.
whether the full size railroads call that consisting I don't know but
that is what it has come to mean for modellers.

I'm currently in the US, and have only noticed a couple of moving freight
trains so far. As far as I could see, both were top and tailed by pairs of >> locos. I don't know if all four were under power, but I assume that would
be normal here? I didn't spot any mid-train locos, but in such long
trains, it would be easy to miss them.

Interestingly, they represented the past and the future: one was carrying
coal, and the other Vestas wind turbine components.

One cool thing: I was travelling on conventional and light rail trains that >> in some cases shared formations, complete with many level crossings, but
not tracks, with freight trains. The modern electric units generated the
same bell and mournful horn blasts that the big freight locos do; but when >> running on their own modern segregated tracks, they didn't.

Where in the United States are you?

One cannot answer for the OP. His description would fit the Los
Angeles County MTA's Blue Line to Long Beach.

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