Recent content by Blutorse4792

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?

The Wikipedia article on the GE Genesis series makes brief mention of a competing locomotive design by EMD... Was this an early version of what became the F59PHI, or was it something else entirely?

I would like to disable the built-in traffic on my roads, and instead lay traffic-enabled invisible roads on top on them, to give me more freedom with intersections and better control of the cars. Is this somehow possible to control in-game, or will I ultimately need to clone and edit an...

Hello friends, My crummy PSU is on its last legs, and seeing as how we live in rather interesting times at the moment, I figure that I can take advantage of being stuck indoors to finally upgrade the rest of my stock, entry-level, Acer PC along with it, thereby giving myself a more respectable...

For the last few weeks I've been gathering resources on a little electric street railway operation that I'd like to try my hand at modeling and I have a few questions for the community... 1) Is this still worth pursuing in TS12 or should I bite the bullet and upgrade? That's going to require a...