Recent content by Blutorse4792

I've been beating this particular drum for nigh on 20 years now. At first glance it does seem counterintuitive that the railroad capital of the U.S. remains so underrepresented in Trainz, but I think part of the problem is the fact that there's just too damn much going on down there, and it ends...

Thank you! It looks like I've got a bit of homework ahead of me, but this was the Rosetta Stone that I was looking for (y)

Below are two snippets from an old track chart, specifying the width and alignment (or rather, the "alinement") of the right-of-way: The listed widths are fairly self-explanatory, but I'm at a bit of a loss as to how to interpret those curvature/radii measurements... Mathematics were never...

Howdy all! I'm bumping my own thread here to inquire as to whether anybody has the CNS&M battery-electric locomotives working in TRS19? I've been out of the loop for a while. edit: Disregard, I actually managed to find my TRS2006-era backups and update them myself.

I too am working with hilly terrain (though not quite Pennsylvania-hilly) so at the very least, thank you for the reassurance that, with determination, it can in fact be done in Surveyor.

Echoing the above, love the idea and your work looks promising! Subscribed with interest.

Since I saw this bumped this morning (which incidentally prompted me to post my other DEM thread) I figured I'd provide an update. I've long since settled on the USGS National Map downloader that was recommended by redbaran11 above.

I am utilizing TransDEM to generate the terrain for a historical Trainz route. So far, I have had no issue with collecting/importing the data and generating the route file, but I've run into a problem with the DEM itself: As you can see when contrasting the DEM against the topographic map...

Prior to the Second World War, the Espee owned a number of electric interurban lines in the western United States. These included the Pacific Electric system in Los Angeles, the East Bay Electric Lines and Northwestern Pacific Railroad around San Francisco, and the Red Electric Lines in Oregon...

I’m out of my element here, so forgive the potentially dumb question, but is it at all possible to somehow generate elevation data from historic surveys, in TransDEM or otherwise? I ask because the DEM data for the area I’m modeling contains many cuts and embankments from postwar highway...

I'm presently working on modeling a streetcar/tram operation, and rather than relying on dedicated splines for the streets, I am instead creating them with asphalt/cobblestone ground textures. While this works out well for urban scenes in which the sidewalks are right along the edge of the...

edit: This was a non-issue, caused by mistakenly generating 2D UTM tiles when I had intended to generate 3D UTM tiles all along. Please disregard... :o

I finally have TransDEM up and running again, but it would appear that most of the DEM sites that I had previously relied upon have bitten the dust over the last few years. Does anybody have recommendations for alternative (and, preferably, free) sites with detailed data available? I did search...

These seem to be fairly popular to model and collect, but I cannot find much information regarding the prototypes... 1. Were these typically hauled in unit trains, mixed trains, or were both common? 2. Would you ever see cars from multiple breweries on a single train?

Does that name pre-date 1971? If not, what was the electrified PRR/PC mainline along the Eastern Seaboard called back then?