Virtual Railway Consortium/SLRR History 2

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==Description==
This Article is a history of the Second Life Railroad ( SLRR ) on the Heterocera Atoll continent compiled by the Virtual Railway Consortium.
The history of the SLRR is long and growing, so multiple pages are required to present it in appropriate detail: 
* SLRR History 2005 - 2009
* SLRR History 2010 and beyond
This page is maintained by members of the VRC. You can use the Talk page if you want to get in contact with them. 
==HISTORY==
A Brief History of the Second Life Railroad (SLRR)
Compiled by the Virtual Railway Consortium
===2005 to 2009===
See the SLRR History covering the years 2005 to 2009 on SLRR History.
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===2010===
====SLRR Growth====
In 2010 SLRR improvements continued and new track extensions, junctions, stations, switches, sidings, and passing tracks began popping up all over Heterocera.
====VRC Member Cooperation====
VRC members are continuously surveying and mapping new SLRR features as they appear, publicizing their availability to the Resident population.
Several VRC members bought land and made swaps with LL to enable:
*, adding that station and bridging track.
*Completing the LL ROW to a large Linden land area in .
*In Tussock Linden Lab where given a bit of private land to create a bridging track between the and the North Cost branch.
Several Residents began providing fully automated train services on various stretches of the SLRR so Residents could ride and enjoy the scenery without having to buy or even operate any rolling stock.
 became affiliated with the VRC and began offering a with descriptions and LMs
====SLRR Wiki Pages====
In September SLRR wiki pages were set up by . 
Michael Linden confirmed the names for the new and existing branch lines on the SLRR:
Branching off the Main Line from Crumbi to Vicina is the Maritime Branch;
From Pawpaw to Pavonia is the Mountain Branch;
From Crumbi via Pawpaw up the Nothern coast of the Heterocera Atoll is the North Coast Branch.
====Clearwing/Paranthrene transfer reconfiguration====
In early 2010 Michael Linden began the realignment of SLRR tracks at the border of . The transfer station there was slightly relocated and became a line station, with the now-connected tracks passing on either side of the the station. With the addition of active switches, these tracks will provide a passing loop to ease bidirectional travel on the SLRR.
====New passing track & siding====
In early 2010, a passing track was laid in , and a siding in Spangle at the time the branch track was laid.
====Resident interconnections====
The LL Maintenance group began accepting requests for to the SLRR, with connecting track being placed on a case-by-case basis. Actual switching mechanisms will be placed after the 
final design has been validated.
====Signals====
The LDPW began building and placing new signals for a signal and switching system under development. Several different designs have been fielded, and are used to set switch routings as well as indicate current status of the switches.
====LDPW-built Stations====
In 2010, several new stations and a railyard were built by the LDPW on existing and new track:
* - Hyper Mole
* - Crafty Mole
* - Abnor Mole
* - Myopic Mole
* - Glamorous Mole
* - Garden Mole
* - Sylvan Mole
* - Michael Linden
====Resident Stations====
In the first half of 2010, the list of existing Resident-built stations grew with several additions. Some of these unofficial station are:
* - Jorge Serapis
* - Stryker Jenkins
* (since 2008) - Carrie Talaj
* - Marianne McCann and Stryker Jenkins
* - Stryker Jenkins
* Peppermint Station - (now gone)
* - Stryker Jenkins
Some residents under false leadership of a few others have started a censorship campaign against the freedom of speech and press. So we can not show all resident station that are build in this time anymore.
====Railroad crossings====
The , and are part of the LDPW signal and switch project in progress. is developing a system to operate active structures on the SLRR.
====SLRR Rail Group RAIL JAM 2010====
On August 15th DOUGIE Flossberg and Damion Goodman of SLRR Rail Group organized RAIL JAM 2010. A lot of members from all over the rail community took part in this great event. Over 45 trains where counted. From a large range of build types. From a horse drawn car to tram cars and from a rail motorcycle to realistic looking steam trains.<BR>
The route of RAIL JAM 2010 took the participants from where they started at 11:00 AM (PDT) to , where the last train arrived about 90 minutes later.<BR>
By that time, 30 trains had made it past Achemon, including 7 without operators aboard. One physical train was observed for certain, Kitto Flora's two-car consist.<BR>
Along the line many SL Residents stood and cheered and many a photo was taken. This was a very successful event, and before the event was done a second one for later this year was already in the planning. The event ended with a party with DJ.
====Railroad Brown Bag meeting with the community====
, from the Linden Department of Public Works, organized a Railway Brown bag meeting to discuss the future of the SLRR and the standards of track, switches and signals. This took place on August 18th 2010. For this a temporary test track was built to show the switches and signals that where produced by .<BR>
42 railway community members, including a few Moles from the LDPW attended that meeting. And a good, sometimes pointed, discussion was held by the participants.<BR>
Installation and completion of the branches without guide rails is expected to be completed in a few months time. This includes the installation of several needed Switches.
====More tracks added====
By request via support tickets VRC members have asked LDPW to place a few more passing tracks along the SLRR lines. Some of these were installed by Michael Linden at the beginning of September 2010. In and in passing tracks where installed.
On the some additional track was setup for a shunting track and extended into Hooktip alongside route 3 / the Northern branch line.
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===More to come===
The recorded history currently ends at September 2010. As additions to the SLRR are identified we will add them here.
==Source==
The above information was initially collected by members of the Virtual Railway Consortium.<BR>
Additional information was provided by SLRR Rail Group.
==References==
In this list of Related resources you can find more information about the SLRR and other Rail related articles on wiki pages and external websites.
Wiki pages:
* Virtual_Railway_Consortium Main page
* Virtual_Railway_Consortium/SLRR_History Index page
* Virtual_Railway_Consortium/SLRR_History_1 2005 to 2009
* Virtual_Railway_Consortium/SLRR_History_2 2010
* Virtual_Railway_Consortium/SLRR_Stations SLRR and Resident stations along the SLRR
* SLRR Main page
* SLRR History
* SLRR Standards
* SLRR Switch
* Linden Department of Public Works
* Okemo, Nakiska, and Southern Railway
* The Great Second Life Railway
* Caledon National Rail
* Linden_Vehicle_Tutorial
External information:
* Physics related LSL on LSLwiki.net
* Vehicle related LSL on LSLwiki.net
Rail related groups:
* SL Group: SLRR Rail Group
* SL Group: Loco Motives
* SL Group: Virtual Railway Consortium
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