Recent content by joshmeister

We are literally just hours away from the formation of BNSF as we see two of the LSRC's original 5 U18B's and SD40-2 #5040, on loan from Santa Fe, skirting across the Illinois countryside heading north towards Rockford with road switcher RS100. Upon arrival to the LSRC in 1990, all 5 of the...

Sometimes your railroads paint shop can surprise you when you tell them to "Patch this unit." without giving them much context. Here we see ex UP 172 waiting in the hole in La Salle as 5603 glides past heading north towards Rockford Illinois. The paint shop managed to really keep the "UP Look"...

It's mid July 1997 and we find LSRC 8520 heading south through La Salle Illinois on train M310 bound for the Granville interchange with BNSF Railway. Closer to Granville now, we catch the train screaming across the rolling country side, just 3 miles from the interchange and a much needed...

La Salle, Rockford & Central Railway 4995 leads sister 4993, an SD40-2 and a GP38 north on LSRC train M21, the Granville ATSF to Rockford CN road transfer and is seen just south of La Salle Illinois on a hot July day in 1995. The LSRC is the Santa Fe's (Fictional) North/South "La Salle...

Life on the LSRC has been rather rough for this former Soo Line GP38, looking rather tired and in need of a repaint as she's seen moving cars around the grain silo in Granville Illinois. The brakemen's side doesn't look any better.

A quintet of La Salle, Rockford & Central Railway GP38-2's roar up the countryside in notch 8 with 6700's tons of freight in tow as they get ready to clatter through Granville Illinois, on their way to Rockford and the Class 1 interchange some 65 miles away. That old jointed rail will sure have...

Pretty simple question, what are the best looking roads for Trainz 19? The roads I mainly use are YARN roads or the AASHTO roads, but I'm sure theres newer roads out there right? I've DLed pretty much every road spine on the DLS that I can find but was wondering what other sites might have some...

What are some good sites to look up for field and crop splines? I know JVC has a bunch of really nice splines for trainz but when updated to Trainz 19 they all seem very transparent and can't be seen for more than 30 or 40 meters away. I'm searching for mid west style crops like corn and...

What would be a good sound card to get for use with Trainz? My machine is beefy enough with a GTX 1060 6GB (Though Might upgrade that too since TRS19 seems to shutter often) But I feel like the sound is kind of lacking. My main issue is that with longer trains (Especially using JR's (Bogey_USA)...

With the introduction of TRS19, have the developers fixed the bad FPS issue that came with TANE? IE I could run my most detailed route with Trainz12 graphics maxed out and still get about 110 FPS, but the same route in TANE on almost all low settings will only get about 11 FPS since TANE is so...

I'm getting back into using TransDEM to work on a few things and am getting my DEM maps from this website https://viewer.nationalmap.gov/basic/ which offers great and easy ways to DL files I need to convert in TransDEM. One issue I am finding though in TransDEM is that due to the curvature of...

I'm trying to get better at reskining, mainly, I'm having a hard time reskining anything other than UP engines because they are all just really one color. I'm wanting to learn how to properly make blank textures that don't look like a 10 year old did them. Usually I just try and use the cloning...

I have a friend (Who doesn't play trainz but does do modeling work for other games) that wants to try and help me get into 3D modeling, and I happened to suggest the Amtrak California Cars might be a good (easy) place for me to start. I've looked in alot of places on the internet but can't seem...

I'm not really sure the best way to word this but here's my best shot. I know how to change truck (Bogey) sounds by going into the bogey's config file and changing the bogey's sound source to something else IE like below. track-sound { default { bogey...

Heres my current gaming set up while does rather well I must say. Operating System Windows 10 Home 64-bit CPU Intel Core i5 6600K @ 3.50GHz 24 °C Skylake 14nm Technology RAM 16.0GB Dual-Channel Unknown @ 1066MHz (15-15-15-36) Motherboard Gigabyte Technology Co. Ltd. Z170XP-SLI-CF (U3E1)...