This is the LOL scenery

[YoYo]

NZGS Gisborne Airport coming soon to FSX/P3D

... and it isnt an ORBX joke! ;)

https://i.imgur.com/CxSTLQ2.jpg

but... :

https://thegrid.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/gisborne-airport-16.jpg

:biggrin-new: :biggrin-new: :biggrin-new:

More info: https://orbxsystems.com/forum/topic/159469-nzgs-gisborne-airport-coming-soon-to-fsxp3d/

[delta_lima]

Lol indeed.

Thankfully, the train in the sim version won’t be going far, lacking a tender ...:running:

Lol

[IanP]

It's a tank engine. It don't need no stinkin' tender. ;)

Ian P.
(Coal bunker behind the cab, water tanks alongside the boiler...)

[Vitus]

only in New Zealand! :biggrin-new:

[PhantomTweak]

To quote my parrot: "Woo-woo, choo-choo!" :engel016:

Of course, she only says that when leading our 4 cats (choo-choo, see?) into the bedroom in the afternoon to wake me up. But I think it applies. Yes, she waddles along on the ground. No flying for her! :wiggle:

Heck, look at Gibraltar, or MCAS Iwakuni. They both have roads across the runway. I'm quite certain the "airports with roads" list is long, but distinguished. Sorry, I had to add that bit on the end :biggrin-new:
Small step to go from roads across the runway to a railroad.

I just hope like heck there's some schedule posted in the NOTAMS for the trains though!
Pat☺

[vora]

On first glance I thought the train looked out of scale - but then I remembered it's New Zealand and Hobbits need public transportation too... :biggrin-new:

[Bomber_12th]

Of course if you didn't know just how massive a TBM Avenger is (as seen in the real pic), most things compared to it in size would look smaller than expected. I think the real photo makes the Avenger out to look small, if anything.

[SH427]

Of course if you didn't know just how massive a TBM Avenger is (as seen in the real pic), most things compared to it in size would look smaller than expected. I think the real photo makes the Avenger out to look small, if anything.
We have an Me-109 parked near the Avenger where I work. The Messerschmitt looks like a toy.

[Anthin]

What a laugh !!

It's my Birthday and I want's it.
Yeeessss precious.:couple_inlove:

Anthin....AKA Gollum.

[hairyspin]

Since there are no barriers, who gives way to whom, officer?

[mrogers]

https://www.amusingplanet.com/2013/08/gisborne-airport-runway-with-railway.html

[emfrat]

Early trials of the Gisborne Puffer Warning System :playful:

https://s19.postimg.cc/i97u5ax2b/GPWSjoke.jpg

[DickB]

only in New Zealand! :biggrin-new:
Not so. For years there was a train line running across the runway at Ballykelly in Northern Ireland. And there are/were others.

More discussion of runways and railway lines here:

https://www.pprune.org/archive/index.php/t-222364.html

[leuen]

There is a French website dedicated to railways crossing airports
http://www.marsaly.fr/fred/aerodromes-ferroviaires/

Bernard

[IanP]

Certainly in the UK, the railway signals would need to be released by the ATC before they were able to clear and allow a train to cross the runway. They're gone now, but the railway crossing the threshold at the BAE/Airbus facility at Broughton/Hawarden in North Wales used to have a direct control in the ATC tower to put the railway signals to red in case of an emergency aircraft.

It's almost a pity that it's gone, given the absolutely tiny microscopic bit of graffiti that a friend put on the railway scheme plan for the area... :loyal:

Ian P.