The SL Railways ??

[squashy Beeswing]

I want to travel the SL railways but i think i'm doing it wrong.  :matte-motes-dont-cry:  

AFAIK, I find a station, and i wait.  Yet no train ever appears!  I know it sounds a lot like British Rail (as was)  but i'm being 100% serious. 

So, my questions are:

1) Is there a time-table i should be looking at?  If there is such a thing, it's not obvious. 

2)  Do trains come by at regular intervals?  I'm thinking in the region of, say, every 10-15 minutes, as opposed to every 2-3 hours (not that i've actually *seen* a train yet; i'm just sayin')?

Or --

3) Am i supposed to summon one and make it appear? 

Please help a frustrated (would-be) traveller.  :-)

[Caitlin Tobias]

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squashy Beeswing wrote:

I want to travel the SL railways but i think i'm doing it wrong.  :matte-motes-dont-cry:  

AFAIK, I find a station, and i wait.  Yet no train ever appears!  I know it sounds a lot like British Rail (as was)  but i'm being 100% serious. 

So, my questions are:

1) Is there a time-table i should be looking at?  If there is such a thing, it's not obvious. 

2)  Do trains come by at regular intervals?  I'm thinking in the region of, say, every 10-15 minutes, as opposed to every 2-3 hours (not that i've actually *seen* a train yet; i'm just sayin')?

Or --

3) Am i supposed to summon one and make it appear? 

Please help a frustrated (would-be) traveller.  :-)

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Hiya,

 

There is no timetable, you can pick up a free train yourself at most of the stations and rezz it to travel on the railways (its quite easy once you have it!)  I did it a couple of weeks ago with my friend and had a great time!

I am not inworld at the moment, but in my blogpost about my travel: http://wp.me/p124Bs-zi, you will find LM's to stations and a link to the wiki about the SLRR.

 

Enjoy the ride!!

[Storm Clarence]

I own trains and I will take you on a train ride - anytime.  It is a fun experience.

IM me inworld and we can schedule some time if you like.  

[squashy Beeswing]

Oh my gosh!  And i have been stood there like a lemon for hours!  Ty! 

[squashy Beeswing]

You betcha!  I'd love to.  :matte-motes-bashful-cute-2:  Ty!  

[Thinkerer Melville]

I see lots of trains running along the tracks from Tuliptree to Calleta and points north.  There used to be frequent frequent passenger car service along those track, but I have not seen any lately.  

You can get a free train and  train things at the VRC HQ in Tuliptree

http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Tuliptree/107/166/30

You can then ride the nearby tracks as much as you wish.

Here are some articles about trains in SL

VRC Grand Tour

http://virtualoutworlding.blogspot.com/2011/02/hobbies-vrc-grand-tour.html

Virtual Railway Consortium 

http://www.virtualrailwayconsortium.org/home

Railway tracks around Heterocera, the atoll continent

http://virtualoutworlding.blogspot.com/2011/03/hobby-railway-tracks-around-heterocera.html

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You can catch a pod tour of Heterocera that covers a lot ofthe railway area.  The pod service on the Heteroceta tours is frequent.  If you go to the pod station in Calleta (next  to hobo village), you can get schedule information from the marker cones.

Pod tour of Southwest Heterocera

http://virtualoutworlding.blogspot.com/2011/08/kit-pod-tour-of-southwest-heterocera.html

Thinkerer

 

[Qie Niangao]

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squashy Beeswing wrote:

Oh my gosh!  And i have been stood there like a lemon for hours!  Ty! 

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Don't feel bad.  It's very common.  It's especially confusing because there are a number of other SL railways where, indeed, regular passenger service is scheduled.  But not the largest network of rails, the SLRR, on the Atoll continent.  Pretty much everywhere else, anything that looks like a railroad is served by some sort of public transit.   (Right now, the Nova Albion trolleys rarely make it all the way from Luna Oaks to the Dore infoHub.  It happens, but usually they crash en route.  There's prospect of that being fixed before too long, I hear.)

The fact that so many folks get confused about this oddity of the SLRR has discouraged many from having anything to do with SL rail travel.  It's up to residents to improve the situation, but no matter what one does to help, somebody objects.

[Marianne McCann]

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Qie Niangao wrote:

 (Right now, the Nova Albion trolleys rarely make it all the way from Luna Oaks to the Dore infoHub.  It happens, but usually they crash en route.  There's prospect of that being fixed before too long, I hear.)

 

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You hear correctly. Betas that I've seen/ridden on the track have fixed that crashing issue, though they've been a bit too aggress so far in the cleanup, causing them to die at the first stop at Sistiana. Persumably that is fixed and will go online next week.

EDIT: Is fixed. :-)

[squashy Beeswing]

Thank you so much everyone for your informative answers.  It has cleared things up  a lot.  No more waiting on draughty station platforms for me!   :matte-motes-smile:   And, Storm, i will undoubtedly take you up on your kind offer.