An odd one - class 40 cabs in preservation

[AndiS]

I would not say I am convinced that it is fast enough. But in my book, 4-5 times per second is more than enough, it's a train simulator after all, not a sports or combat simulator after all.

I think it all depends on the sort of computer you have, and how clever Windows handles the case. With 4 or 8 cores, one could well do nothing than passing your controller status around, and its not too many bytes, compared to shovelling all these textures around.

I am not familiar with Windows internals, but Unix/Linux had pipes for decades. You write into them as in a file (which means that Lua can do it without tricks) but on the other end, a program reads constantly, and only uses processing time when data arrives. MS-DOS used to fake pipes by reading all the data into a file before starting the program that received the data. But that was something like half a century ago (or a third, more precisely) and I lost interest in such details during that time. All I care about Windows7 these days is that it is near enough to XP to let me continue my work and that it does not crash.<old man icon here>

[whittaker]

I do now there was a class 40 cab dumped at the back of the Crewe heritage centre site back in the 90s ,have a photo of me standing in cab doorway.

and i dont think it was from a named whistler.ill try to dig pic out of shoe boxes lol.

joe

[briyeo]

There was a Class 37 cab delivered to a real ale pub in Derby a year or so ago. It's in spitting distance of the old Loco works but this one wasn't built at Derby which is a shame. I can imagine it with 3 monitors running TS2014 and a good sound system and maybe some device to shake it as required. I'm not sure what they intend to do with it.

[Alril40]

There's only one entire 40 cab that still exists, the one in the pic is actually 288/088 (the CFPS travelling sales stand) temporarily numbered as 218.



Again, not long after.


There are still however three nose ends off class 40's that I know survived the cutters torch, one each from 40139, 40150 and 40058. Its a real shame more didn't survive but that's how it went. Your best chances are class 37 related seeing as there's still a few of them knocking about .

Cheers,
Alex

[rfletcher72]

There was a Class 37 cab delivered to a real ale pub in Derby a year or so ago. It's in spitting distance of the old Loco works but this one wasn't built at Derby which is a shame. I can imagine it with 3 monitors running TS2014 and a good sound system and maybe some device to shake it as required. I'm not sure what they intend to do with it

That would be the Alexandra Hotel then Brian. I have spent many a cold winters evening in here, looking at the various railway memorabilia that adorns the walls and watching it slowly blur as the last HST to Sheffield draws near

Turn right outside the station and it is the pub on the bend after the Brunswick (itself well worth a visit).

Me thinks I may have to reacquaint myself quite soon ,

Cheers,

[JamesLit]

Alex, chars very much... telling porkies again he is (my friend)... a 20 cab, a 56 cab and a 58 cab are all plausible, but whatever else is there certainly isn't a 40...

Thanks to the rest of you for your help also.

[briyeo]

Just came across this image on Flickr and thought I would share it here.