Recent content by TSwenson

Martin, the history of New England rail makes a cutthroat game of RR tycoon look positively tame and gentlemanly... Take the modern shift in economics in the area and we are lucky to have rail. There has been a massive shift away from manufacturing in the last 40-60 years, it was initially...

Sadly, a year and a half later, the rumors fly of CSX getting rid of branches. On a brighter note, some 50 years later and potatoes were once again shipped out of northern Maine by rail (to Idaho). John, you may remember our earlier discussion on how the 1930's weren't kind to infrastructure in...

Thanks for saying what asset you used as that's about what I was going to suggest (just the method not the asset). Remember that the AI for Trainz is old (positively ancient in computer terms) and needs to be carefully set up to succeed at complex things.

If your vegetation/flora looks pale or washed out, it may not be the lighting but the color/saturation/ in the assets themselves. A lot of older vegetation content suffers from this, and while structures and such may be updated, the vegetation (flora) hasn't, probably because there were...

Try looking by ANYTHING other than the Whyte classification. Try MT-1 (and MT-2) or Mountain. For some reason the search engine in CM is incapable of sorting by the US standard of identifying steam, I've been told this is a software architecture problem, in other words the program doing the...

I had forgotten that bit... It's been a couple decades since I poked around with that bit of British history, and I was reading about stonewalls back then and just happened to get a bit side tracked. [EDIT] 35 years ago.... I did the math... and now I feel old... :(

I to will chime in on the geographic and social/population differences between the US & Canada and the UK & Europe. It is rather difficult for our European friends to comprehend just how vast the US and Canada is compared to Europe (Heck it's sometimes hard for folks from the US to understand...

Fritch12301, the second way Jcitron has for building tunnels coupled with the AJS tunnels by Andi06 is the way it was done as I recall... I think Andi06 made those assets to solve this type of problem, as I recall it was to put the swiitches for a station throat in tunnels that drove it. Not...

Short answer, maybe, depends on how you are going about it. Trainz and tunnels is a funny thing... there are several ways to make them and each has its advantages. I do know it supposedly was possible to do in a previous version, but the version, the how, and the assets involved, escapes me...

Yeah! victory! Oh, do I feel dumb.... it's a simple solution, and it was what I was trying to remember in my previous post (I'll blame it on my new puppy distracting me). It seems dumb but it works. I use this trick all the time, particularly with things like replacing old style tracks in...

Ben was a prolific content creator and much of his content has stood the test of time, he was very good about including instructions for complex stuff. I personally like his kick-back dumpers over the rotary ones. However, I just double checked and found the "readme" file for the "Rotary Car...

Drat... so much for the easy fix. Sounds like the program isn't recognizing the update right, I have a few suggestions, after the age old "log out completely and restart the machine and log back in" process. Try bulk updating the asset by selecting on of the old ones in the bulk tool and...

Right of the top of my head, did you obsolete the old asset? If you only cloned your own asset and it has the same Kuid it doesn't know to render the new one, if you made a newer version then it should automatically update (i.e. 123:123 for both, or 123:123 for the old and 123:123:1 for the new...

I can't really help beside saying if it is a wide river that is a legit phenomenon... There have been workaround solutions in the past but they have been compromised by updates/new versions of Trainz, and unless 22 is drastically different from 19 you are probably stuck. To me, the water in...

Jim thanks for the encouragement, I can walk outside with my "Peterson's Trees and Shrubs" field guide to find the flora... I just wanted the little bits of what to look for in Trainz, plus maybe a quick rundown on how to do some of the graphics work. I can reskin older stuff (not so much with...