Originally posted by Fidd:
No they don't, beleive me. Most of the "smoke" from a moving steam-train is in fact steam, and should be a light grey colour. I've travelled on real steam trains many times at the Bluebell Railway here in the UK (a private steam-railway) as I used to live very close to it. This black "smoke" looks all wrong to me.
Fidd
LOL Fidd...you ever burn a hunk of coal? Say in a Bar-B-Q? Coal smoke is black! Black as night!
I had my first ride on a Coal Burning Steam train in 1979 in Canada. That SOB turned everything on the front 2 cars black with soot!
Now that thing you rode in the UK is probably a modernized low polution gas burner. Very few places on this planet still alow someone to burn coal as the Steam Engines of the 1940's did.
Oh, when they didn't burn coal, it was whatever wood they could find (War area trains especialy), and this would be dark grey, but hardly white like the steam.
Now, as for the steam...you might see white steam as well but only if there is too much steam for the pistons to use and had to be vented to keep pressure from reaching dangerous levels, or if they were trying to stop and wanted to dump all the pressure.
Personally, all of this is muted by the fact that we now have a beautiful new eddition to the AH family of vehicles.
Sure would like to see some game play ideas on this issue in stead of "Track size" and "Smoke Color" gripes.
Would be cool if we could rebuild HQ's faster by getting a train in safe, or Add 10 perkies to every player of the country who has a train make it to it's destination.
Maybe even a 2-3 train system that can be routed by players (such as the cv can) along different track destinations: HQ, City, Ammo, Training. That would be nice!
Viper
