Recent content by opus722

So a little over a year ago I embarked on a mission to build a new Amfleet from scratch. That was a terrible idea and will never be spoken of again. In the intervening months I continually tried out different models and eras stretching from USRA boxcars to AC4400CWs. 95% of that stuff is also...

Happened a few days ago on the 7th, but didn't see it mentioned it here. Three per month being delivered. Did they ever decide what the fate of them AEM7s will be? I heard something about cabbage cars, but who knows...

I found this in my travels across the web. Not sure if it has been posted on here before, but it contains a lot of technical information on various US, and a handful of UK here and there, locomotive classes, mostly steam but a few early electrics, that I haven't seen around. It also contains...

On NS Employee Time Tables there is a list of locomotives sorted by group depending on how they are rated for tonnage. They're all pretty straight foward, but there is a reference to a "C-90-AC" that I am not familiar with and I can't turn up anything on Google about it other than things...

The NS (ex-SOU) Appalachia District passes through a natural geological formation appropriately named "Natural Tunnel". I'd always considered something like this impossible to replicate in Trainz given that the tunnel, which is really a limestone cave, is 80ft high, 200ft wide, 850ft long, and...

There a threads on hear arguing the aesthetics of locomotives, both beautiful and hideous, but I propose a discussion on locomotives that just went out there and got the job done. Whether they were produced in huge numbers, reliable, record setters, or just plain long lived. Not trying to find...

My club car membership is set to expire in a little over a month so I am wondering if it auto-renews and, if not, if I purchased a new one today would it add on 12 months to the September expiration date or treat it like a new membership expiring in July '14?

Containers - "TADTextureConvert> TrainzUtil command host terminated unexpectedly" Hello, Whenever I attempt to install the JR containers I always get this when they go to commit: Error: TADTextureConvert> TrainzUtil command host terminated unexpectedly Message: TADInternalCopyAsset> fatal...

I spent the past 6 months to a year toying around with Blender, GIMP, and other programs trying to forge something presentable. I learned a lot along the way from LODs to efficiently using resources. During the learning process I posted a few renders here and there of my attempts in various...

I've been playing around with a tank car 3D model, the plans are specifically for AC&F Type 21 tank cars - one insulated version and the other not. I am, however, having trouble turning up prototype photographs of the cars during their service lives. Color photographs are pretty much...

This is something I've been wondering about as railfans often forget the human side of the industry. It's pretty easy to see who took possession of Conrail's locomotives, routes, and rolling stock during the breakup, but how did NS and CSX go about divvying up Conrail's personnel, retired...

I'm currently working on a RF&P route and my track laying has finally reached the Acca Yard in Richmond. It's fairly large with the main yard, fuel racks and repair shops. I can't decide if I should lay out the prototypical track plan, which would look empty as even high end PC's would have...