Reading & Northern RR screens (Hi-Res/widescreen)

[Rooneth3808]

Roon, when time comes, i will beta if you'll let me, and if its ok with you, re-fit the crossings with BNSF50s.
Cheers!

Ok, sure! And i'll take any good TRS2004 crossings that are out there.

Meanwhile....

The LC&N Greenwood coal breaker is "done"! (well i'll almost definitely add or change things before its really done)

Behind the breaker.

The spur to the breaker with the train on top, with the Greenwood running track and the beginning of what is left of the LN&E's old Arlington yard on the bottom. The tracks coming from the breaker navigate a twisting 2.5% grade before connecting with Arlington yard.

Should have Arlington yard finished in a few days.

~Roon

P.S. What is this? ---> :wave: the new "nose picking" smiley??

 

[Rooneth3808]

Good old northeast Pennsylvania anthracite coal railroading .

A train pushing empties up the grade to the mine, passing the man-made mountains of coal slag (which have been there long enough now that they are starting to grow forests on them and slowly disappear back into the landscape).

~Roon

 

[grogstop65]

Great Stuff

Josh, your use of vegetation has really improved greatly, and you've mastered capturing that track side feel! I look forward to more excellent work!

 

[Rob]

Wow some great shots there. Good work!

~R~

 

[AJ_Fox]

Wow that looks great.

Cheers

AJ

 

[Rooneth3808]

A few pictures of the Tamaqua Station and the surrounding grounds. This station was just restored a few years ago from an absolutely deplorable condition. It now houses a few shops and a really nice restaurant and a few other things.

The station for Trainz is still being worked on, with many of the fine details still to be added by AngelC (oh, and she has to do 2 other nearby RR structures as well ), but this should give you a good feel for the area.

The park and parking lot on the other side of the tracks from the station were also built when the station was renovated. They actually tore out a gas station to build the park! (tear out a gas station to build a park in the US?!?!? AMAZING! ) Also, an ex-Pennsylvania Power & Light bottle-steam engine sits on the siding there on display (and 2 cabooses on the station side...still gotta fix that area up).

Thats all for now...back to working on it.

~Roon

 

[Rooneth3808]

Continuing to add things and just having some fun....

(and i left the shots in full resolution this time, so they're 1440x900. Click them for full size.)


AngelC's Tamaqua Station before the really crazy details are added. These include lamps (and a night-mode with lighting), tables, chairs, and flower-"barrels". Roof color has been toned down a little as well.


"Got Trees?" Experimenting with foliage to make good looking forests. Still working on this area (and no trackside details such as grass are in yet), which is the expansive and quite secluded site of the old Atlas Munitions factory.


Coming into Tamaqua.

Now back to work...
~Roon

 

[lsstaten]

everytime see this route i love it more ane more. maybe because i love the eastern railroads.

 

[grogstop65]

Gorgeous work!

 

[Rooneth3808]

Molino, PA.

The north-bound daily "Mountain Job" rounds the curves in the valleys of the Appalachian Mtns just before hitting the sleepy village of Molino.

Finally breaking out of the deep valleys and forests for some farmland just outside Molino.

About to hit the only crossing.

Heading back out of "town".

And finally...
...for some reason i like this picture. Maybe its the obvious flaw .

Thats all for now. Perhaps i'll have a video ready to go soon .

~Roon

 

[Rooneth3808]

Video!...or several thousand screenshots placed together in a really fast slideshow, which ever you prefer

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PoZx9NvjZk

Two SD40-2's can move pretty fast when they only have a 1000 ton train and haven't hit the mountain grades yet .

~Roon

 

[grogstop65]

I was going to die until you killed the railroad music Excellent video I felt like I was there.

 

[chrisracer8903]

Great stuff there Roon! Cool to hear music from "Genesis" on a Trainz video! The route has alot of interesting areas and stuff to do. It kinda reminds me of the CSX Saginaw Sub north of Holly here in MI . -Chris

 

[grneyes_96]

Outstanding!

This looks phenomenal. I'm really looking forward to it! Hopefully it will work in TRS06 or I can somehow enable it to!

 

[mp5a4]

Didn't you our someone else (I am guessing you) make a video on this route?

 

[Rooneth3808]

Didn't you our someone else (I am guessing you) make a video on this route?

You mean the video i linked to several posts up?

There's also another older one up that you can access from my Youtube page.

~Roon

 

[Rooneth3808]

Just a couple shots of the short Tamaqua Tunnel about a mile north of town.

Looking west (railroad north). The train is just about to enter the other side of the tunnel.

Exiting the tunnel and crossing the Little Schuylkill River, which it follows for perhaps 20 miles and crosses numerous times.

Back when this section was double-tracked, the track in the tunnel formed what was actually called a "Frog Guantlet". Instead of being a normal single track through the tunnel, it looked something like this:

Hope you all enjoyed them.
~Roon

 

[chrisracer8903]

Cool! That's really awsome! I think that's neat that it shared the line like that at one point! -Chris

 

[spiffy101]

Awesome route. About how many baseboards will it be in the end?

 

[dnutter]

Wow that beaufitul!


Also, do there have interchange connceting with Norfolk Southern, CSX, UP and other local railroads?