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    Destination Facilities for Gold Ore?

    I'm in the process of adding a gold mine to my route which (to no surprise) produces Gold Ore, along with a production chain of industries to process it. However, I'm at a total loss trying to figure out what sort of second-stage or third-stage industries it would typically be sent to after...
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    Turnout Standards for Ambiguous Rolling Stock Rosters

    A problem I've always run across when track laying is deciding what size of turnout to use in a given area. This is especially true in cases where I haven't yet given the region in question a roughed out roster, as ultimately from a prototypical standpoint, one would be limited in their...
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    Sierra Railroad No. 3's Wheelbase, and Other Reverse-Engineering Oddities

    So, after being tugged along by SRY No. 3 over the beginning of last August, I've begun drumming up some rudimentary plans for a digital reproduction of the Movie Locomotive. However, while going over measurements using photos I had snapped on sight, I've noticed some discrepancies between The...
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    nVidia's CUDA - Not quite as friendly as I'd like.

    I had an issue recently regarding CUDA and texture compression in TS2009 SP3 (I don't know if any other Trainz versions are affected) that I thought I'd share since the fix itself was way out in left field and I feel it's likely someone may encounter the problem at some point in the future. I...
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    What exactly is 'saved' in a session save file?

    Exactly what the thread says on the box. What all exactly is saved on a route when you save the progress of your session in Driver (i.e. not the actual Session itself Surveyor) and is there a way to extend that capability to things like scripts and third-party content. Like, for example, if...
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    Point of Switch distance for Kato 2-850/2-851 Turnouts

    I know this is going to sound oddly specific, but does anyone happen to know off the top of their head roughly the distance between the heel of the switch and the end of the facing side of the track in a Kato HO-Scale 2-850 turnout? I'm trying to figure out how much one needs to offset from the...
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    Below-Water Depth in DEMs with Trainz

    I've been playing around with DEM maps with HOG and Trainz today, and I'm curious as to why there is no depth in any DEM maps for large bodies of water. They typically just show up as a flat surface that is really the surface of a river/lake/beach. Do any of you Trainzers out there that have...
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    Road Vehicle Recommendations

    I was wondering if anyone could point me in the direction of some moderately-detailed road vehicle assets on par with ts2009/2010's detail level? I'm not really picky for anything specific, just anything you'd see in the US from the mid 1940's to present. With all the new sparkly high-poly...
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    New to Surveyor? Then this guide is for you!

    I was kind of bored the last couple of days, so I decided to start on a super-guide for using Surveyor Mode in Trainz. The first part is available on my website. Clicking my sig will also take you there as well. If you have any questions or constructive criticism, you're all more than welcome...
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    A handy little tool for all you basemap fans out there!

    I ran across a nifty little application called Google Map Buddy the other day that stitches together map sections from Google Maps (such as satellite images) into one huge 'super-map' image. I'm sure other people who tend to use satellite images to layout their routes will find it useful...
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    Frog angles for Wye Turnouts

    Alright, quick question (caution math-heavy terms incoming): When laying a Wye turnout, should the frog angle be measured between the diverging track and an imaginary track where the through track would be (as both tracks past the point of switch can be considered 'technically' diverging...
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    Emptying the ash pits.

    So lately I've been looking for reference material for a branch line engine yard I'm building on my route. A problem I've run across is that any info I've ran across in terms of ash pits is very vague on what methods were employed to clean the pits out of ash other than a cinder conveyor tower...
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    Loading cars without a locomotive.

    So in my engine yard, I have setup an ash pit for my steamers that uses a conveyor belt elevator to transfer the ash from the pit into a gondola (or other appropriate car) on an adjacent track. The problem is that I just want to leave the gondola there unattended and then return later to take...
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    Navigate To vs. Drive To

    Like the title says, what is the difference (if any) between the Navigate To and Drive To commands? Also, besides using them to route trains through a specific section of track, do the Drive/Navigate Via commands function more or less the same as their Drive/Navigate To counterparts?
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    Masking portals

    If you have a route that makes use of portals, what are some nice ways of 'masking' the fact it is a portal - such that it would blend seamlessly into the rest of the scenery and not be a magical train-spawning trackend, other than the 'tunnel in the side of a mountain' approach, especially in...
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