Lashed up all plausible cars for an extra long holiday San Francisco Zephyr this weekend as I get more and more finished and in service.
I think it's looking pretty good!
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Hey at least I gave them an extra lounge car...
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The Unicorns are back at the Coliseum this year and you bet I'll be there!
T20 cricket is the "modern" version - you get 20 overs (groups of 6 balls (baseball strikes)) to score all your runs. It's like if baseball had a pitch count limit per team. Imagine baseball with a max of 120 pitches per team where you play all bottoms of innings first, then all tops.
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That means that if your team bats first, you get a nailbiter as the other team tries to catch up, and if you bat second, it's like you're down runs going into the bottom of the ninth. It's unbelievable sport.
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Cohen is a Ghost
OK so...
Test cricket is the traditional way to play the game - four innings (a cricket innings is like a baseball half-inning) that go as long as they need to to get the whole team out (10 batsmen each get one out per innings). It's prestigious but impractical - really only used for int'l matches.
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Test games are 6 hours per day (which is a lot!) broken up into 3 2-hour sections (which is reasonable!) for a few days straight. It's really just like a series of baseball games all played with cumulative scores and outs. Not too hard to watch/follow, especially when it's only the biggest games.
Lately I've had both Fleischer Superman, and the New York Central's streamlined Hudsons in mind, so this was inevitable. It'll be a long time before I have a model train layout again, so for now I'll settle for animating my railroad ambitions.
