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| | THE GROUP HAS DISBANDED.<BR> |
| | THIS PAGE WILL REMAIN AS AN HISTORICAL REMINDER THAT FREEDOM ON THE SLRR IS NOT FREE. <BR> |
| | GOOD LUCK TO THE SLRR.<BR> |
| | Jer Straaf |
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| [[Image:Bushside_Showcase_pic.jpg|400px|center]] | | [[Image:Bushside_Showcase_pic.jpg|400px|center]] Dougie layout, Jer locomotive, Raindrop rail cars |
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| ==Description== | | ==Description== |
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| The Second Life Railway Commission (the "good SLRC") is composed entirely of [[Acronyms|SLRR]]-gauge train builders, train sellers and others who are materially involved with personal railroading on the Second Life Railroad. | | The Second Life Railway Commission is composed entirely of [[Acronyms|SLRR]]-gauge train builders, train sellers and others who are materially involved with personal railroading on the Second Life Railroad. We are a small private group but we have an official-sounding name just like those other guys. |
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| If you have a nice SLRR-gauge personal train, you either made it yourself or you purchased it from one of us. We are the train builders in Second Life and we have joined together for the purpose of delivering a unified message to Michael Linden and the LDPW. Our message is that we support the existing SLRR standards and the freedoms we enjoy today on the SLRR Atoll railroad tracks. We do not take either of these things for granted, nor should you. | | If you have a nice SLRR-gauge personal train, you probably made it yourself or you purchased it from one of us. Enjoy! We are the train builders in Second Life and we have joined together for the purpose of delivering a unified message to Michael Linden and the LDPW. Our message is that we support the existing SLRR standards and the freedoms that you enjoy today on the SLRR Atoll railroad tracks. We do not take either of these things for granted, nor should you. |
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| Second Life Railway Commission charter:<BR> | | Second Life Railway Commission charter:<BR> |
| 1) We are all independent SLRR train builders and endorse these ideas.<BR> | | 1) We are all independent SLRR train builders and endorse these ideas.<BR> |
| 2) We represent a thriving personal train industry that is good for SL.<BR> | | 2) We represent a thriving personal railroading industry that is good for SL.<BR> |
| 3) Our focus is the SLRR Atoll railway tracks, not GLSR, ONSR or trolleys.<BR> | | 3) Our focus is the SLRR Atoll railway tracks, not GLSR, ONSR or trolleys.<BR> |
| 4) The current track specification is excellent, expansion is encouraged.<BR> | | 4) The current track specification is excellent, expansion is encouraged.<BR> |
| 5) The LL TOS is sufficient, we oppose any signaling control system.<BR> | | 5) The SL TOS is sufficient, we oppose any signaling control system.<BR> |
| 6) Resources should be applied to expansion, not automated trains.<BR> | | 6) Resources should be applied to expansion, not automated trains.<BR> |
| 7) We will take this message to the Lindens regularly.<BR> | | 7) We will take this message to the Lindens regularly.<BR> |
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| The message we bring to Michael and the LDPW is clear, positive and public. The long distances covered by the SLRR Atoll railroad tracks make them a unique feature in SL and unrestricted access should continue to be provided for all residents. The current SLRR-gauge track standard supports five distinctly different types of trains, enabling residents of all skill levels to participate. The SLRR standard should be adhered to and the track system should be completed. We consider automated train systems to be completely problematic in SL, a hazard to railroading on the Atoll and a misdirection of LDPW resources. | | The message we bring to Michael and the LDPW is clear, positive and public. The long distances covered by the SLRR Atoll railroad tracks make them a unique feature in SL and unrestricted access should continue to be provided for all residents. The current SLRR-gauge track standard supports five distinctly different types of trains, enabling residents of all skill levels to participate. The SLRR standard should be adhered to and the track system should be completed. We consider automated train systems to be completely problematic in SL, a hazard to railroading on the Atoll and a misdirection of LDPW resources. |
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| | MEMBER NAME LIST REMOVED, THE GROUP HAS DISBANDED. |
| Bartek Jewell<BR>
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| Borst Borst<BR>
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| Damion Goodman<BR>
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| Dougie Flossberg<BR>
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| Elvira Wuyts<BR>
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| followmeimthe Piedpiper<BR>
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| Jer Straaf<BR>
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| Letshava Goodnight<BR>
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| Mick Huet<BR>
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| Moggio Morigi<BR>
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| Myuki Mills<BR>
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| Nesto Quatro<BR>
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| Nish Mip<BR>
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| Nookie Babenco<BR>
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| Parrish Ashbourne<BR>
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| Raindrop Difference<BR>
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| Rainey Halderman<BR>
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| Solonia Stenvaag<BR>
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| Twisted Laws<BR>
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| Yevad Doobie<BR>
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| Long live the SLRR and personal railroading in Second Life!<BR> | | Long live the SLRR and personal railroading in Second Life!<BR> |
| The Second Life Railway Commission | | The Second Life Railway Commission |
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| | ==Source== |
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| ==SLRR== | |
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| NOTE: This section is under development, citations are coming soon...<BR><BR>
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| In the beginning...<BR>
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| The Lindens decided to build a railroad. They laid out tracks on the Atoll. They had a design contest for stations and put up stations. They set up an automated train. They set up sensors along the tracks to monitor the progress of their train. The ANWR oil rig was used as a monitoring station.
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| Unfortunately none of this worked. The Linden train did not stay on the tracks. Very few people ever rode on the Linden train. Those who rode it did so out of curiosity, not for transportation. The entire project was considered by the Lindens to be a failure and the automated train "service" was discontinued. Linden Labs essentially abandoned the tracks in 2007. There was limited success with an automated train on the short-line GSLR tracks, however, due to the introduction of Havock4 in early 2008, automated train "service" was abandoned there as well.
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| Private residents began riding Arcadia Asylum hobo-trains on the abandoned SLRR tracks. Several residents built their own locomotives. By 2008 there was a nascent personal train industry in Second Life, with several builders and several very different approaches to train building. This rise in popularity did not go unnoticed by the "super-automated train" proponents and there was a clandestine attempt to have the Lindens remove SLRR's solid center rail. (SL's TOS prevents their names from being divulged here since there were resident/Moles and former Moles involved.) By destroying the SLRR track standards, the "super-automated train" proponents would have destroyed the personal railroading industry. Several train builders successfully fought the effort and the SLRR's solid center rail remains as a vital part of the SLRR's track standard. No new SLRR tracks were built during this time as the "super-automated train" proponents continued to cloud the entire issue of future SLRR track standards.
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| The current state of affairs...<BR>
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| By 2009 there was a thriving personal railroading industry in Second Life with a dozen or more active train builders. Michael Linden and the LDPW, now free from the burden of placating the "super-automated train" proponents, began improving and expanding the SLRR track system. The Spini Gap was completed and more recently, the line from Crumbi to Spangle has been completed. This may well represent a new "golden age" in the story of the SLRR. Once again, however, this has not escaped the attention of the "super-automated train" proponents. The Consortium is now trying to field control systems on the SLRR, presumably in preparation to convince the Lindens to re-introduce a "super-automated train" to the SLRR.
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| The Second Life Railroad ( [[Acronyms|SLRR]] ) runs over more then 60 sims on the Heterocera Atoll (Northern) Continent.
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| Anyone with rolling stock designed to run on the SLRR tracks can use this public facility. Along the railway line there are many [[#SLRR Stations|stations]] where you can rez a train to start a journey.
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| The [[LDPW]] Moles will be working on extending and improving the SLRR in the future.
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| Some SL residents have expressed an interest in operating trains on the SLRR and [[#Other Railway initiatives|other railroads]], much as anyone can operate a car on the roads in SL.
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| The SLRR standards as they are at the moment for [[Second_Life_Railroad/SLRR_standards#Guidance|guidance]] and [[Second_Life_Railroad/SLRR_standards#Gage|track]] will enable residents develop suitable vehicles. Other rail networks may use different standards and are encouraged to make their standards public if these networks allow the public use them with their own rolling stock.
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| Standards have been established in-world as well as on these new wikipages. And residents have been using the SLRR for years. There are many train builders in SL that make a wide variety of trains using several different methods for locomotion. The current SLRR track standards support all types of trains. Already many residents have personal trains they use on the SLRR. Using the SLRR with its current standard is simple to understand and accessible to residents and builders of all skill levels.
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| ==SLRR Stations==
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| [[File:SLRR map11-2009-1024.png|500px|thumb|right|Second Life Railroad map (c) Stryker Jenkins]]
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| {{wFont|size=large|color=red|back_color=red|text=--- |}} '''Heterocera main line'''
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| :1 {{SLurl|region=Tuliptree|x=152|y=155|z=31|title=Tuliptree Station}}
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| :2 {{SLurl|region=Calleta|x=185|y=179|z=30|title=Calleta "Hobo" Station}}
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| :- {{SLurl|region=Calleta|x=133|y=19|z=31|title=Train & Rail Museum}}
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| :3 {{SLurl|region=Neumoegen|x=107|y=142|z=65|title=Neumoegen Station}}
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| :4 {{SLurl|region=Achemon|x=214|y=123|z=70|title=Achemon Station}}
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| :- {{SLurl|region=Achemon|x=29|y=240|z=81|title=SLRC Station}}
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| :5 {{SLurl|region=Obscure|x=62|y=119|z=81|title=Obscure Station}}
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| :6 {{SLurl|region=Epirrhoe|x=171|y=225|z=81|title=Epirrhoe Station}}
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| :7 {{SLurl|region=Jubata|x=195|y=239|z=81|title=Jubata Station}}
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| :- {{SLurl|region=Torva|x=45|y=20|z=80|title=SLRR ALIA train rez zone}}
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| :8 {{SLurl|region=Spini|x=102|y=18|z=81|title=Spini Station}}
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| :- {{SLurl|region=Athetis|x=215|y=127|z=80|title=Athetis RR Station}}
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| :9 {{SLurl|region=Lunalis|x=24|y=71|z=90|title=Lunalis Station}}
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| :10 {{SLurl|region=Foxglove|x=151|y=227|z=90|title=Foxglove Station}}
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| : -- {{SLurl|region=Taeniatum|x=101|y=179|z=102|title=H8 Motors Express}}
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| :11 {{SLurl|region=Clearwing|x=254|y=36|z=86|title=Clearwing Station}}
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| :12 {{SLurl|region=Crenulate|x=150|y=26|z=86|title=Crenulate Station}}
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| : -- {{SLurl|region=Pini|x=112|y=102|z=94|title=SLRC Pini Station}}
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| :13 {{SLurl|region=Aglia|x=144|y=151|z=83|title=Aglia Station}}
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| : -- {{SLurl|region=Celerierio|x=132|y=235|z=82|title=Celerierio Station}}
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| :14 {{SLurl|region=Tenera|x=196|y=139|z=83|title=Tenera Station}}
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| :15 {{SLurl|region=Zale|x=73|y=200|z=29|title=Zale Station}}
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| :16 {{SLurl|region=Bhaga|x=108|y=34|z=28|title=Bhaga Station}}
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| : -- {{SLurl|region=Busiris|x=108|y=34|z=28|title=Urban Getto}}
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| {{wFont|size=large|color=lime|back_color=lime|text=--- |}} '''Vicina Branch line'''
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| :17 {{SLurl|region=Vicina|x=133|y=70|z=30|title=Vicina Dock}}
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| :18 {{SLurl|region=Dubia|x=86|y=233|z=60|title=Dubia Station}}
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| :19 {{SLurl|region=Crumbi|x=63|y=255|z=65|title=Crumbi Transfer Station}}
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| {{wFont|size=large|color=aqua|back_color=aqua|text=--- |}} '''Mounten Branch line'''
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| :20 {{SLurl|region=Pawpaw|x=149|y=110|z=117|title=Pawpaw Junction}}
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| :21 {{SLurl|region=Tussock|x=118|y=95|z=118|title=Tussock railyard}}
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| :22 {{SLurl|region=Malacosoma|x=22|y=223|z=79|title=Malacosoma crossover}}
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| :-- {{SLurl|region=Malacosoma|x=15|y=230|z=79|title=SLRC Malacosoma station}}
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| :-- {{SLurl|region=Philudoria|x=38|y=230|z=49|title=Peppermint station}}
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| :23 {{SLurl|region=Melanthia|x=93|y=4|z=31|title=Melanthia station}}
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| :24 {{SLurl|region=Spangle|x=161|y=239|z=31|title=Spangle station}}
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| {{wFont|size=large|color=yellow|back_color=yellow|text=--- |}} '''Northern Branch line (option)'''
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| ==Other Railway initiatives==
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| There are several other standard gage railroads in SL, some on private land, some on Linden land.
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| This is list of some other examples of large multi sim networks with different sets of guidance, control and track system. The different systems are not necessarily compatible with SLRR standards.
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| *GSLR - The Great Second Life Railway {{SLurl
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| |x=136
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| |title=Purple right of way Station/Dock
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| *[[ONSR]] - [[ONSR|Okemo, Nakiska, and Southern Railway]] {{SLurl
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| |region=Smithers Bluff
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| |x=241
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| |title=Smithers Bluff Station
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| *Caledon National Railway {{SLurl
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| |region=Caledon On Sea
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| |x=199
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| |title=Caledon On Sea Station
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| *Lackawanna Railroad (New York) {{SLurl
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| |region=SouthernTier New York
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| |x=204
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| |title=Lackawanna Railroad Station
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| This information was gathered from various sources throughout SL by Jer Straaf and other members of the Second Life Railway Commission. | | This information was gathered from various sources throughout SL by Jer Straaf and other members of the Second Life Railway Commission. |
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| ==Also See== | | ==Also See== |
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| * [[Second_Life_Railroad/SLRR_standards|SLRR standards]] | | * [[Second_Life_Railroad]] |
| * [[Second Life Railroad/SLRR Switch concept|SLRR Switch concept]] | | * [[Second_Life_Railroad/SLRR_History|SLRR History]] |
| * [[Linden_Vehicle_Tutorial]]
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| * [http://lslwiki.net/lslwiki/wakka.php?wakka=physics Physics related LSL on LSLwiki.net]
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| * [http://lslwiki.net/lslwiki/wakka.php?wakka=vehicles Vehicle related LSL on LSLwiki.net]
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| [[Category:Culture]]
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PLEASE NOTE:
THE GROUP HAS DISBANDED.
THIS PAGE WILL REMAIN AS AN HISTORICAL REMINDER THAT FREEDOM ON THE SLRR IS NOT FREE.
GOOD LUCK TO THE SLRR.
Jer Straaf
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Dougie layout, Jer locomotive, Raindrop rail cars
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Description
The Second Life Railway Commission is composed entirely of SLRR-gauge train builders, train sellers and others who are materially involved with personal railroading on the Second Life Railroad. We are a small private group but we have an official-sounding name just like those other guys.
If you have a nice SLRR-gauge personal train, you probably made it yourself or you purchased it from one of us. Enjoy! We are the train builders in Second Life and we have joined together for the purpose of delivering a unified message to Michael Linden and the LDPW. Our message is that we support the existing SLRR standards and the freedoms that you enjoy today on the SLRR Atoll railroad tracks. We do not take either of these things for granted, nor should you.
Second Life Railway Commission charter:
1) We are all independent SLRR train builders and endorse these ideas.
2) We represent a thriving personal railroading industry that is good for SL.
3) Our focus is the SLRR Atoll railway tracks, not GLSR, ONSR or trolleys.
4) The current track specification is excellent, expansion is encouraged.
5) The SL TOS is sufficient, we oppose any signaling control system.
6) Resources should be applied to expansion, not automated trains.
7) We will take this message to the Lindens regularly.
The message we bring to Michael and the LDPW is clear, positive and public. The long distances covered by the SLRR Atoll railroad tracks make them a unique feature in SL and unrestricted access should continue to be provided for all residents. The current SLRR-gauge track standard supports five distinctly different types of trains, enabling residents of all skill levels to participate. The SLRR standard should be adhered to and the track system should be completed. We consider automated train systems to be completely problematic in SL, a hazard to railroading on the Atoll and a misdirection of LDPW resources.
MEMBER NAME LIST REMOVED, THE GROUP HAS DISBANDED.
Long live the SLRR and personal railroading in Second Life!
The Second Life Railway Commission
Source
This information was gathered from various sources throughout SL by Jer Straaf and other members of the Second Life Railway Commission.
Also See
