Can anyone create St. Louis Union Station for Trainz 12?

[bendorsey]

OK gents. St Louis Union Station has been uploaded and approved. Should show up in a day or two.

It consists of 6 parts and like the words most fathers hate to see on the side of a box "some assembly required".

Should be enough parts to make the variations over the years.

Please read the README file in the folder. There are two screenshots in Surveyor showing the assembled station.

Hope its what you had in mind.

Ben

 

[Jamesfaa]

Ben,

Thank you for putting this together. It looks wonderful. I will be adding this to my ST Louis map shortly and have already previewed it on a clean board. Assembly was easy and the parts came together nicely. As often as I have walked through the modern ST Louis Union Station, I have been able to see all the elements of this come together giving a nice reproduction of what the station might have looked like. As I am a bit young, I had never seen it in operation. Thank you again for this beautiful model.

 

[bendorsey]

Hi James:

Your welcome and I'm old (71 next month) and have never seen it in operation either, lol).

Ben

 

[AppleDash22]

Hey Ben. I was just on the DLS and couldn't find St. Louis Union Station. Is it not up on there?

 

[bendorsey]

Its there, lol.

N8PHU has been madly upgrading (or is it upgrading madly, lol) a lot of my older content so I suspect the station parts are beyond 1000 items back. I looked that far and didn't see them.

On the other hand doing a search for St Louis Union and checking description turned them right up.

Ben

 

[AppleDash22]

Its there, lol.

N8PHU has been madly upgrading (or is it upgrading madly, lol) a lot of my older content so I suspect the station parts are beyond 1000 items back. I looked that far and didn't see them.

On the other hand doing a search for St Louis Union and checking description turned them right up.

Ben

I just found it. All I had to do was look up St_Louis_Union_Station. (Why the underscores? I Don't Know!) Now all I need to do is to find the readme files which i have no idea where to find it. XD

 

[bendorsey]

I've always put underscores between words in a title for items I make.

The READEME file is in the folder.

Ben

 

[AppleDash22]

I've always put underscores between words in a title for items I make.

The READEME file is in the folder.

Ben

Is that after you install it on Trainz Simulator? Right now they are the standard cdp file.

 

[bendorsey]

Yes - the CDP won't have the underscores (sez I with my fingers crossed, lol).

Ben

 

[Red_Rattler]

G'day jacksonbarno,

...it is, indeed, Flinders Street Station, located in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

If that is the case, with the picture before his post in this quote, you may have the longest platform on the wrong side of Flinders St station, as remember Platform 1 (or whatever the number closest to Flinders St street was called) was actually two stations joined together, with the former Princes Bridge platform.

 

[bendorsey]

Appledash22:

Install it in game and open the folder. The README file is inside. There are also 2 screenshots taken in Surveyor showing how the various parts are assembled. NOTE:the canopy spline is deliberately a bit short to show the platforms underneath.

Ben

 

[sfrr]

Ben, it seems that parts 2 and 3 have vanished from DLS. Any idea what is going on with this? Sorry for the Necropost. STL is popular in Trainz, that's for sure!

 

[bendorsey]

Wasn't aware of that. Let me look into it (apparently all gremlins are not in my back yard, lol).

EDIT: They are there if you search for them by KUID.

Part 2 - - - 210518:11418
Part 3 - - - 210518:11419

Ben

 

[sfrr]

Thanks, Ben!

 

[Aljv12]

I still don't know how to make beautiful buildings but i am making some Chicago buildings in Sketchup, anybody can guide me? If you are interested i can show pictures...( I know this is not this thread, but for me is difficult to use the forum?

 

[bendorsey]

I'm not familiar with Sketchup but making a large building is no different then making a small one - just the time it takes and the degree of detail you wish to include. If you do a little planning ahead you can cut construction time down quite a bit by making some of the parts reusable (windows and doors for example as they tend to be pretty much the same all over a large building).

Take a break from it now and then. Plugging along on a large project can get boring beyond belief. I usually keep a few small projects on hand and stop work on a large one, make a small one, then go back to the big one. Just getting away from the big one for a while even if its only a few days can do wonders for your enthusiasm towards the big project. Another advantage of "taking a break" is it allows your sub-conscious mind to mull over the big project. Its amazing to me how often I will take a break because I'm "stuck" on some part of the big project and find when I go back to it my pea sized brain has figured it out for me, lol (this is not a line of BS - it works).

Plan it out in advance. Overall size, and so on. I usually start at one end and work towards the other for buildings and from the middle outwards for bridges. but there can be exceptions depending on the structure itself.

Lastly but not leastly - HAVE FUN!

Ben