Australian screenshots

[axe1970]

Axe, good to hear that such a great looking route is available for the unworthy among us (myself included:hehe:.) You look like you have acheived some remarkable results, no doubt through many hours of practice and perserverance in surveyor. It is routes such as this, as well as the attendant screenie's, that are keeping my current levels of inspiration at a peak.

Many thanks,

Matt.

P.S Am i correct in thinking that this route is only available for 09/10? A great pity if it is, as i'll miss out:''(.

Thanks for the comments Matt. Yes as Forest Runner stated it has been built for TS2009 and up. If you can get it working in TRS2006 then you have my blessing. I did try to do this once, but I had no success. If you can get it to work I might get you to send me the results ...and I'll upload that version too.

I kinda wish I had kept building the route in TRS2006, but I had made alot of progress in TS2009 that I couldn't bare to lose it all.

Regards

 

[mattm]

Axe and Forest_Runner, thanks for replying. Regretfully, i think i'll sit this one out, and run one of the quality 06 routes for the time being. Who knows, maybe someone will get it going for 06. I can but dream.

In the meantime, i shall be sure to browse this thread to check out the work of the highly talented Aussie creators, whose work brings credit to us all.

Cheers,

Matt.

 

[ad602000]

has anyone done a Richmondvale line or similar?

cheers
pete

 

[koolboy]

NORTHERN TASMANIA

Hi Nicke,

Very nice screenshots, I actually live in Tassie, if only we had that rail link....... it would be great.

I was wondering if you could help me out.

Picture 2 shows a building with fans on the side (possibbly for air) is that one building complex ? do you know what it is called and if it's on the DLS.

Also the Tasmania toursit sign and the satelitte dishes are they available on DLS.

Once again some nice screenshots there, I'm in the middle of building a gaint container / fuel / oil and ore offshore port, it's taking forever huge amount of detail.

cheers

Koolboy

This week marks my 8th anniverary with Trainz. I found it at the Brisbane Model Railroad Show in 2002 - and I have had the most amazing enjoyment since.

When I bought my first Trainz I knew what I was going to do - I was going to build a fictional route in northern Tasmania. (I had been dabbling with it in N scale - unsuccessfully for some years previously).

To make my route work Tasmania had to move.
It's now 23 kms off the Victorian coast.
After those magnificent people finished the Snowy River scheme in the early 60s they built a rail only tunnel under (the now narrower) Bass Strait, coming out just west of Ulverstone.

This rail connection with the mainland has opened up so many opportunities over the past 45 years (giving me the freedom to have all sorts of fun with all sorts of rail stock).

I have made very little attempt to accurately depict the actual route from west of Ulverstone to Port Sorrel (15kms east of Devonport). The population is much bigger and the rail connection makes a quite different community in Tasmania. (My Devonport is much more important that Launceston for example.)

I don't create assets - so i am very grateful for all the material I have access to - and salute all those who give us things to download.

My route is a work in progress - and will be forever I feel.
These shots are from TRS 06 (I am having trouble getting 10 to work at the moment - but I will migrate again).

These first shots are at the Bass Tunnel entrance to Tasmania showing an hourly car transport service from Southern Cross (Melbourne) to Devenport Central.

Beside the welcome sign is a tourist facility with a platform for people to watch trains coming and going.
The Bass Tunnel also carries communication cables and the area near the tunnel is a busy communication hub. The signal box (below) looks after the rail traffic in the tunnel and keeps an eye on the hundreds of monitors installed in the tunnel.

Passing through the small holding yard to the east of the tunnel.

Cheers
NickE

 

[nicke]

Koolboy:
Thanks for the nice words.

Sounds like you are having quite an adventure with your project.
The three items you asked about are on the DLS:
The tunnel building is - Tunnel Flathead Exhaust (by bnsf50) (object)
The Letters are all seperate (and a new set for 09 has recently been added)
Look for - Letters-Character (by leeferr) (object)
The satelite dish is called - Teleskop (by Hasilein) (object).

I'll post some more screenshots at the weekend.
Cheers
NickE

 

[Ghostryder]

Pete

Not that i am aware of.

cheers

ghosty

 

[lenice]

Pete, Just out of curiosity did a search of the DLS and came up with this 76458:225966228 . Not sure if that's what you're after. It is in 1.3.
Glen

 

[patchy]

hi all,
better get some qr shots on here
at the moment i'm ploughing my towards mt isa this will merge with cloncurry
and before the qr diehards attack me the 1461 is in strange terrority

cheers,
patchy

 

[koolboy]

Koolboy:
Thanks for the nice words.

Sounds like you are having quite an adventure with your project.
The three items you asked about are on the DLS:
The tunnel building is - Tunnel Flathead Exhaust (by bnsf50) (object)
The Letters are all seperate (and a new set for 09 has recently been added)
Look for - Letters-Character (by leeferr) (object)
The satelite dish is called - Teleskop (by Hasilein) (object).

I'll post some more screenshots at the weekend.
Cheers
NickE

Hey NickE,

Thanks for your speedy response, have found what I was looking for good luck with your route building, look forward to seeing more screenshots. Tassie is a great place to visit... if you haven't already been, worth the trip. We need more Tassie Loco's on the DLS some English Electric Z's Za's Zb's and even ZC's why not

cheers,

Koolboy

 

[ad602000]

Hi Glen, thats kurrajong to Richmond out penrith windsor way. I'm after something in the Hunter valley coalfields

cheers
pete

 

[mattm]

Hi guys, me again.

Nicke, Patchy: You made me drool! The quality of both those routes looks stunning. Just one question for nicke: What makes you think we want Tasmania any closer to the mainland? If i could, i'd move it out further, not in closer:hehe:. Better yet, level it and make it a giant model railway.

Anyway, jokes aside. I have a few shots of my own to share.

Two shots of the town of Footrot Flats, NSW, under development. I hope you like them. As before criticisms are more than welcome.

Matt.

 

[michaelc]

patchy, I can feel the heat radiating out of those photos. They would be wintertime shots, a heavy layer of haze would make it summer

 

[Raichase]

mattm, how did you go with the texturing hints, and the trees you downloaded? Nice looking town in progress!

For those that have not yet downloaded it, patchy has made a classic route with his Cloncurry route (Is that what it's called? The one he most recently put up on the DLS). I don't know anything about Queensland Railways, but his layout is a fantastic example of a well built Aussie layout. Anyone who likes his screenshots, the layout is ten times better, and would suit most trains someone wants to plonk on it. EDIT: patchy, I think some users out there would benefit from a user creating some sessions for your route, with the appropriate rolling stock, and a basic goal in mind for the user. I've not idea what locomotives or wagons would be appropriate, and it needn't be as fancy as the "Wadalbavale Line" sessions built into Trainz, but I think it would be interesting to see and play. Sorry to keep banging on about your route, but I was rather blown away by the sheer size and quality of it.

ad602000, you're looking for Richmond Vale Railway? I don't know of a route that's been made, but would be very interested to see one if it has. Having visited the railway twice, it's a very interesting little area, and to see the pictures and hear about how busy both Richmond and Pelaw Main were, it would be amazing to see it in Trainz. Sorry I can't help you at all mate, some of your rolling stock would be perfect for it.

 

[ad602000]

any further away and tassie would be known as west new zealand

 

[Raichase]

any further away and tassie would be known as west new zealand

I thought Tasmania used to be known as "Old Zealand" before they renamed it to sound like they belonged to Australia?

 

[mattm]

Raichase: Thanks for the comments. It is quite a nice town, isn't it? I went and downloaded every asset by Boobless_ed that CMP could find. They make an appearance in the two screenie's above. As for texturing, i'll post a few more shots tomorrow, after i finish the last section i have to do.
I won't make any calls as to quality at the moment. I will let youself and your peers be the judge of that.

Matt.

 

[ad602000]

are the side rods really that flimsy?

Hi Bill, yes they are, had to double check myself when I did the bogie.

I have strong memories of these locos when catching a train home in the Sydney suburbs occasionally one would run on a parallel track in the same direction and they seemed to glide along at speed with little or no effort and the running gear was just poetry in motion, just made it look so effortless, it must have been built with very little lee way in engineering to allow rods that light.

cheers
pete

 

[Ghostryder]

Due to ill health work on my QR maps had been put on hold now that i am feeling better i have been feeling better and have in the past day or so been getting back into my maps.


Drivers View from RM55/Red Fred as it passes through Milton.


Red Fred passes through Taringa.


1470 running long hood first passes former BCC trams awaiting the scrappers flame.


Taringa Station.


the triple Indooroopilly river crossings.

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Cheers

Ghosty

 

[Ghostryder]

Some more shots of my WIP


1470 passes through Corinda.


Passing Brittains Bricks at Darra.


Passing Darra Cement Works.


Wacol.


1470 running West of Goodna


Running through Redbank.

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If there is a good session creator out there i am looking at makign sessions for my maps but need some advice, if you can contact me via pm or email woudl be appreciated.

cheers

ghosty

 

[patchy]

glad to here you're feeling better ghosty

cheers,
patchy