Canadian Rocky Mountains 2011
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The Canadian continues to head eastwards.
This stretch of the Mountain Subdivision has many amazing bridges. You can see the track below that comes from the Mount McDonald Tunnel. However the passengers notice that it might start to rain soon. :'(
On the tracks below a freight train is also heading eastwards. We might catch up to it when these two tracks inevitably meet up ahead.
Woops, this has turned into a fierce thunderstorm with lots of lightning.
British Columbia is prone to some huge forest fires in the summer months from the frequent lightning strikes. I was driving through British Columbia in August 2005. I remember on the way up towards Rogers Pass on the Trans Canada Highway that the sky was quite "foggy" on a sunny day and it smelt like wood smoke. It was from a large forest fire from 500 km farther North! Those of you from Australia and the United States will know what I'm talking about.
Let's hope that there are no fires started today!
Cheers,
Derek
This stretch of the Mountain Subdivision has many amazing bridges. You can see the track below that comes from the Mount McDonald Tunnel. However the passengers notice that it might start to rain soon. :'(
On the tracks below a freight train is also heading eastwards. We might catch up to it when these two tracks inevitably meet up ahead.
Woops, this has turned into a fierce thunderstorm with lots of lightning.
British Columbia is prone to some huge forest fires in the summer months from the frequent lightning strikes. I was driving through British Columbia in August 2005. I remember on the way up towards Rogers Pass on the Trans Canada Highway that the sky was quite "foggy" on a sunny day and it smelt like wood smoke. It was from a large forest fire from 500 km farther North! Those of you from Australia and the United States will know what I'm talking about.
Let's hope that there are no fires started today!
Cheers,
Derek
RoysTrainz
Rembrandt van Trainz
Dereck 10 out of 10!:mop:
RoysTrainz
Rembrandt van Trainz
Roy
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64Warhorse
New member
With guidance from Robert2d6's recent post on the topic, I've been experimenting with un-portals to create traffic on the route. After a bit of fiddling, I thought I had it set up. Here, I met an inbound load of empty centrebeam flats at the east end of Revelstoke yard.
And this one was taken near the merge at Twin Buttes:
Unfortunately, this particular session ended rather abruptly a short time after this picture was taken. One of the trains generated by the up-portal took the wrong track heading west and wound up running into me. I guess I need to do a bit more work with the AI ...
And this one was taken near the merge at Twin Buttes:
Unfortunately, this particular session ended rather abruptly a short time after this picture was taken. One of the trains generated by the up-portal took the wrong track heading west and wound up running into me. I guess I need to do a bit more work with the AI ...
Mountain Creek Bridge
The Canadian has reached Mountain Creek Bridge. At the time it was built it was the second highest timber bridge in the CPR after the Stoney Creek bridge. There is a marvelous archival image of the original timber bridge at the official CPR website. The image is the center image on the top row. For those of you have been following this forum there is also an image at the bottom right of them actually testing the second bridge over Stoney Creek.
Check these out at: http://www.cpr.ca/en/about-cp/our-p...-gallery/buildings-bridges/Pages/default.aspx
From another perspective we see that a freight train is also heading east on the lower track after going through the Mount McDonald tunnel. At Mountain Creek it happens to be passing a small ranch. Apparently the owner thought that this ranch was better than "OK" so he called it the "Allright Corral." :hehe:
Several of the ranch hands and their trusty horses and dogs are waiting for the freight train to pass so that they can cross the tracks. Not too far on the other side of the tracks behind the trees is the Mountain Creek campground. Good catch Roy. I checked on the Topographic map for this area and that campground is listed right there.
I image that many of us are having fun driving trains along the Mountain Subdivision route but it is also fun to stop the train and look around. Roy, you have populated this route with lots of detail such as this "Allright Corral." Great job. :clap:
And now The Canadian continues eastward over the Mountain Creek bridge.
Cheers,
Derek
The Canadian has reached Mountain Creek Bridge. At the time it was built it was the second highest timber bridge in the CPR after the Stoney Creek bridge. There is a marvelous archival image of the original timber bridge at the official CPR website. The image is the center image on the top row. For those of you have been following this forum there is also an image at the bottom right of them actually testing the second bridge over Stoney Creek.
Check these out at: http://www.cpr.ca/en/about-cp/our-p...-gallery/buildings-bridges/Pages/default.aspx
From another perspective we see that a freight train is also heading east on the lower track after going through the Mount McDonald tunnel. At Mountain Creek it happens to be passing a small ranch. Apparently the owner thought that this ranch was better than "OK" so he called it the "Allright Corral." :hehe:
Several of the ranch hands and their trusty horses and dogs are waiting for the freight train to pass so that they can cross the tracks. Not too far on the other side of the tracks behind the trees is the Mountain Creek campground. Good catch Roy. I checked on the Topographic map for this area and that campground is listed right there.
I image that many of us are having fun driving trains along the Mountain Subdivision route but it is also fun to stop the train and look around. Roy, you have populated this route with lots of detail such as this "Allright Corral." Great job. :clap:
And now The Canadian continues eastward over the Mountain Creek bridge.
Cheers,
Derek
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RoysTrainz
Rembrandt van Trainz
Thank you dear friend Bob, no not forgot you as you are one of the oldest (not by age
) trainzer fans supporting us over the years till now.Ning says hello and ask your wife permission to say to her put one under the tree for Xmas sssst don't tell him ok?
Warmest regards
Roy, Ning n Djoetje
RoysTrainz
Rembrandt van Trainz
Roy
Let there be snow
They say there is no such thing as a dumb question but I'm going to ask one anyway. I know Roy is using seasonal textures. How do you get the snow to appear. I have tried setting the environment settings to February which would certainly be winter and in surveyor set some snow with the accumulation depth to 1 meter. Inquiring minds want to know. Thanks for the answer.
Cheers,
Derek
They say there is no such thing as a dumb question but I'm going to ask one anyway. I know Roy is using seasonal textures. How do you get the snow to appear. I have tried setting the environment settings to February which would certainly be winter and in surveyor set some snow with the accumulation depth to 1 meter. Inquiring minds want to know.
Thanks for the answer.Cheers,
Derek
Attention to detail is remarkable
Roy:
Every so often I just like to look around your Mountain Subdivision route. I am astonished at how much time you have put into making this as authentic as possible. I do not know if others have noticed this or not. So I am posting a couple of images to demonstrate how much "trouble" you have gone to.
The first is a "satellite" shot of the north part of Revelstoke from your route.
Now compare this to the real world as imaged from Google Earth.
Astonishing for sure.:mop:
Cheers,
Derek
Roy:
Every so often I just like to look around your Mountain Subdivision route. I am astonished at how much time you have put into making this as authentic as possible. I do not know if others have noticed this or not. So I am posting a couple of images to demonstrate how much "trouble" you have gone to.
The first is a "satellite" shot of the north part of Revelstoke from your route.
Now compare this to the real world as imaged from Google Earth.
Astonishing for sure.:mop:
Cheers,
Derek
RoysTrainz
Rembrandt van Trainz
Seasonal or not seasonal that's the question
Derek,
most humbly thanks and all others who jointed Roy's Trainz, so many in this short time frame!:mop:
Derek How to snow "seasonal" (not correct word) but nice in this thread:
http://forums.auran.com/trainz/showthread.php?95666-Roy-s-Trainz-opens-its-doors/page18
cheers,
Roy
Derek,
most humbly thanks and all others who jointed Roy's Trainz, so many in this short time frame!:mop:
Derek How to snow "seasonal" (not correct word) but nice in this thread:
http://forums.auran.com/trainz/showthread.php?95666-Roy-s-Trainz-opens-its-doors/page18
cheers,
Roy
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64Warhorse
New member
Drifting through Revelstoke yard on a snowy Tuesday morning:
As we near the east end of the yard, we meet a westbound string of empty centrebeam flats:
A few miles west of Twin Butte, the snow tails off just in time for us to cross paths with a westbound container drag:
But the snow soon resumes. As we come off the long bridge at Twin Butte, we can just make out the nose of a coal train in the distance, waiting at the signals for the container train we passed a few minutes ago to clear the block:
As we near the east end of the yard, we meet a westbound string of empty centrebeam flats:
A few miles west of Twin Butte, the snow tails off just in time for us to cross paths with a westbound container drag:
But the snow soon resumes. As we come off the long bridge at Twin Butte, we can just make out the nose of a coal train in the distance, waiting at the signals for the container train we passed a few minutes ago to clear the block:
Two trains meet in Fraine
The Canadian has pulled to a stop to let the freight train power through going eastward.
The freight train has priority because it's commercial cargo is far more valuable than a passenger train. :hehe:
It is certainly a beautiful location for the few people who call Fraine home.
Thanks to Roy, now that I know how to get "snow on the ground" I believe that a "Pineapple Express" will be bringing snow to the Selkirk Mountains very soon! :Y:
Cheers,
Derek
The Canadian has pulled to a stop to let the freight train power through going eastward.
The freight train has priority because it's commercial cargo is far more valuable than a passenger train. :hehe:
It is certainly a beautiful location for the few people who call Fraine home.
Thanks to Roy, now that I know how to get "snow on the ground" I believe that a "Pineapple Express" will be bringing snow to the Selkirk Mountains very soon! :Y:
Cheers,
Derek
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We have SNOW
Now that the freight train has passed, The Canadian continues northwards towards the Columbia River. Thanks to the "Pineapple Express" from Hawaii the moisture laden air has turned to snow in the mountains.
This aerial view is spectacular!
This would make a great Christmas card from Roy's Trainz. :wave:
Cheers,
Derek
Now that the freight train has passed, The Canadian continues northwards towards the Columbia River. Thanks to the "Pineapple Express" from Hawaii the moisture laden air has turned to snow in the mountains.
This aerial view is spectacular!
This would make a great Christmas card from Roy's Trainz. :wave:
Cheers,
Derek
RoysTrainz
Rembrandt van Trainz
@64warhorse and Derek,
beautiful shots friends really good ambiance for Xmas.
Here follow a few from Ning:
:hehe:
Ning, Roy n Djoetje:wave:
ps anyone see it?
beautiful shots friends really good ambiance for Xmas.
Here follow a few from Ning:
:hehe:
Ning, Roy n Djoetje:wave:
ps anyone see it?
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RoysTrainz
Rembrandt van Trainz
Happy holidays cont'd Santa's very busy flight schedule
Ning, Roy and Djoetje:wave:
Ning, Roy and Djoetje:wave:
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RoysTrainz
Rembrandt van Trainz
Hey WCL happy holidays my friend and lots of fun and peace over there. what you mean by Sant 3 is on??
Roy
Roy
Hey Happy Holidays to you to guy.....What I mean was Santa Clause 3 is on TV http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Santa_Clause_3 for the 25 days of X-Mas on the Family Channel :Y:
RoysTrainz
Rembrandt van Trainz
wow to far here in NE Thailand cannot get the family channel enjoy always loved it!
best regards,
Ning, Djoetje and Roy:wave:
best regards,
Ning, Djoetje and Roy:wave:
