Alright you lot, listen up, I.K. Brunel here, world's first chain smoker, engineer and occasional Kenneth Branagh impersonator. I'm here to tell you lot how to run a railway since Gods Wonderful Railway is the finest on Earth and don't you listen to those pompous lot from the North Eastern!
Here is the depot at the main city, Electricfox has done a fairly good job at it, he's got two locomotives, called them Percy and Edward, the green one is Percy, and the blue one is Edward...although why he had to paint it in SDJR blue I do not know. Still, no-one's perfect, at least he managed the GWR green right.
This is 'Percy'
And this is 'Lord of the Isles', one of Gooch's children, broad gauge, of course, as it should be, none of this four foot eight and a half inches nonsense. You can see the comparisons between the two, although you have to sit in a seperate wagon for the footplate on 'Percy', poor design and workmanship, very sloppy. Now, in the tender or bunker is water and coal, in 'Percy's case coal, charcoal, coal coke and about seven or eight buckets of water.
A steam locomotive needs water and fuel to exist, deprive it of one or the other and bad things happen. In this 'Minecraft' if you run out of water, and then put cold water in a hot boiler, the bad thing that happens is a large crater and no locomotive. In real life, the bad thing that would happen if you ran out of water is the total embarrasment of having 'dropped a plug', or if you were driving a locomotive created before the invention of
fusible plugs, then a large explosion and death. So, don't do it.
To help you avoid running out of water, Electricfox has provided 'water columns' along the railway for you to use alongside the water buckets inside your tender.
This is the water column at the central station where the End portal is located. To refill your water tank, stop your locomotive underneath it.
Like so, and then water will drop into the tank and your locomotive will be safe from exploding until next time.
Be grateful that whoever designed these locomotives saw it fit to handwave away steam pressure, or fitted some sort of safety valve to it, because boiler explosions are bad things, alright?
Curiously this boiler explosion was not what inspired the idea for double decker trains.
Anyway, so remember chaps, keep the boiler filled up with water, keep the firebox filled up with fuel and you'll be happy. Shut down the locomotive in between use and it'll stop using fuel and water and you'll be good.
Now go along, and spread the word of Broad Gauge!