So kit bashing is great in Trainz too. Keep that in mind when trying to get that perfect building or suite of buildings for an area.
Here's a paper mill complex I cobbled together. There are those awesome components by Dave Snow, a water treatment pit and a gas tank from the Gaswerk, and a power plant from Jointed Rail to represent the main building. The actual paper mill was bulldozed down a couple of years ago and sat on the old Bradford to Georgetown branch which was stubbed in the 1940s at the Haverhill Paperboard.
Here's the original:
http://binged.it/1Kf6PTD
And here's my somewhat smaller depiction. I'm still plopping in warehouses and buildings thus the pipes and small brick building across from the tracks.
I'm not trying to be exact but I want a good looking paper mill.
A few miles west of here, I put in the Merrimack River bridge...
http://binged.it/1E6xChl
I know my bridge is wrong, but this is close enough for what I want... On the Haverhill end, I put in the third deck girder which once connected to a spur near the station. The bridge still exists, sans track and the spur is long gone along with the old coal company and lumber yard. I may put those in but I haven't decided yet.
If you notice the three small bridges crossing the road, Railroad Street to be exact, on the Bradford side, two bridges are for the double-track main line and the single bridge is for the Georgetown branch. This is just like the real deal. The twist is I needed to put in a wye because I wanted north-south traffic to be able to go east as well as west. A regular wye didn't fit well, so I did a bit of bridge kitbashing and put in a scissor wye. The bridges are the old JJS Pratt girder bridges which I found connected perfectly to the Austin Warren Truss so this is why I used this bridge instead of a thru truss... To match components and put a switch on the bridge, I used a bit of bridge track to make a crossover, and a bridge with no track for the wye leg. This allowed me to match up the components and squeeze the wye in where there hasn't been one since the 1890s, and a wye today is too tight for modern boxcars. The wye leg crosses over where the substation exists today. I may squeeze that in too because I can.
The Merrimack River bridge is a about 105 years old and is being rebuilt because of rusting components. This is the main line to Portland and hosts the famous DownEaster.
Now a bit east in Amesbury...
http://binged.it/1E6znLr
Amesbury is an interesting place. It was once the home to the carriage industry and played its part in the trolley car and early automobile industry. There was a single-tracked branch that came off of the old Eastern Railroad near Salisbury that once ran to the center. What is now that big dirt lot was once a substantial yard which served the mills along the Powwow River. At one time, back in the 1860s there was a plan to run a line from the present terminus north to Hampton NH. This never materialized and the line remained a lonely branch until it was ripped up around 1980.
In my depiction, I've added a bit more track and continued the branch through a tunnel where it connects to another part of my route... This area was quite a challenge to get right and like the rest of the route still a WIP. The slope to the tunnel from the yard was a pain due to the grid resolution even with a 5 meter grid. If only there were finer controls...
--- Amesbury mills to tunnel
Amesbury Jct on the other part of my route...
It's been fun and a challenge as I figure out to fit the buildings I want into an area. Kitbashing things together really does work as I've done this with the mills as I created a big loading dock below one of the buildings as I put two buildings together. The Sugar Mill and FMA freight house...
It's been fun now that the servers have settled down. In the end for me the kitbashing has worked because I don't have the energy to create custom content or wait and search high and low for those special buildings. By customizing content, even with a bit of editing and cloning I've been able to get most of the things I need.
John
Here's a paper mill complex I cobbled together. There are those awesome components by Dave Snow, a water treatment pit and a gas tank from the Gaswerk, and a power plant from Jointed Rail to represent the main building. The actual paper mill was bulldozed down a couple of years ago and sat on the old Bradford to Georgetown branch which was stubbed in the 1940s at the Haverhill Paperboard.
Here's the original:
http://binged.it/1Kf6PTD
And here's my somewhat smaller depiction. I'm still plopping in warehouses and buildings thus the pipes and small brick building across from the tracks.
I'm not trying to be exact but I want a good looking paper mill.
A few miles west of here, I put in the Merrimack River bridge...
http://binged.it/1E6xChl
I know my bridge is wrong, but this is close enough for what I want... On the Haverhill end, I put in the third deck girder which once connected to a spur near the station. The bridge still exists, sans track and the spur is long gone along with the old coal company and lumber yard. I may put those in but I haven't decided yet.
If you notice the three small bridges crossing the road, Railroad Street to be exact, on the Bradford side, two bridges are for the double-track main line and the single bridge is for the Georgetown branch. This is just like the real deal. The twist is I needed to put in a wye because I wanted north-south traffic to be able to go east as well as west. A regular wye didn't fit well, so I did a bit of bridge kitbashing and put in a scissor wye. The bridges are the old JJS Pratt girder bridges which I found connected perfectly to the Austin Warren Truss so this is why I used this bridge instead of a thru truss... To match components and put a switch on the bridge, I used a bit of bridge track to make a crossover, and a bridge with no track for the wye leg. This allowed me to match up the components and squeeze the wye in where there hasn't been one since the 1890s, and a wye today is too tight for modern boxcars. The wye leg crosses over where the substation exists today. I may squeeze that in too because I can.
The Merrimack River bridge is a about 105 years old and is being rebuilt because of rusting components. This is the main line to Portland and hosts the famous DownEaster.
Now a bit east in Amesbury...
http://binged.it/1E6znLr
Amesbury is an interesting place. It was once the home to the carriage industry and played its part in the trolley car and early automobile industry. There was a single-tracked branch that came off of the old Eastern Railroad near Salisbury that once ran to the center. What is now that big dirt lot was once a substantial yard which served the mills along the Powwow River. At one time, back in the 1860s there was a plan to run a line from the present terminus north to Hampton NH. This never materialized and the line remained a lonely branch until it was ripped up around 1980.
In my depiction, I've added a bit more track and continued the branch through a tunnel where it connects to another part of my route... This area was quite a challenge to get right and like the rest of the route still a WIP. The slope to the tunnel from the yard was a pain due to the grid resolution even with a 5 meter grid. If only there were finer controls...
--- Amesbury mills to tunnel
Amesbury Jct on the other part of my route...
It's been fun and a challenge as I figure out to fit the buildings I want into an area. Kitbashing things together really does work as I've done this with the mills as I created a big loading dock below one of the buildings as I put two buildings together. The Sugar Mill and FMA freight house...
It's been fun now that the servers have settled down. In the end for me the kitbashing has worked because I don't have the energy to create custom content or wait and search high and low for those special buildings. By customizing content, even with a bit of editing and cloning I've been able to get most of the things I need.
John