Anyone wants to try the beta, need TS2010 build 44088 or later (dunno if it will work in TS12, the whole point of beta is testing), download this;
http://www.humyo.com/FChMvwQ/chimetbeta1.zip?a=jgwY0UT7APU
Unzip, RTFD.
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Anyone wants to try the beta, need TS2010 build 44088 or later (dunno if it will work in TS12, the whole point of beta is testing), download this;
http://www.humyo.com/FChMvwQ/chimetbeta1.zip?a=jgwY0UT7APU
Unzip, RTFD.
masterowner
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The textures, they hurt my eyes!
how much of the L did you actually do?
Did you build any stations?
Also, why didn't you use any L cars, I did after all spend a lot of time working on a complete set (starting 1964)
If anyone wants a proper L route, wait for my alpha later this summer hopefully
If you want help, I can give you some corrections, starting with the Tower 18
Did you build any stations?
Also, why didn't you use any L cars, I did after all spend a lot of time working on a complete set (starting 1964)
If anyone wants a proper L route, wait for my alpha later this summer hopefully
If you want help, I can give you some corrections, starting with the Tower 18
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"The textures, they hurt my eyes!"
I haven't been to Texas for over 30 years, but I'm pretty sure they still sell sunglasses down there.
If you're talking about the NYCTA cars, I just threw those in there for the beta test session. "why didn't you use any L cars" related question, if the Texican is talking about my Chicago Metro bilevel scoot train, I'm still working on the color scheme for the Chicago Metro - This IS, after all, a fictional route, altho it's based on the Chicago & NorthWestern, Chicago Transit Authority Rapid Transit, and Belt Railway of Chicago.
Car on the left is the original color imported from Railworks, the middle one is the latest experiment with a darker blue.
Originally made the logo for Railworks, the Chicago Metro fans there were looking for a Chicago gangster image - I even had one engine with a tommygun on it. :hehe:
" how much of the L did you actually do?" "I can give you some corrections, starting with the Tower 18"
Again FICTIONAL ROUTE, the main focus is actually freight ops on the C&NW Galena Division;
And the main point will be fun to operate on, with prototype accuracy coming in last place. For example you might grab a Lake Street L at Harlem, drive it downtown, and instead of coming back to the west side you'll hang a right at Tower 8 onto the old Garfield Park L which will loop around and connect to the south end of the State Street subway. Which it never did in real life.
What I got so far is the Lake Street L as it existed prior to 1965 - before the Lake-Dan Ryan, the Lake Street line used to turn right at Tower 18, make all stops in the loop from Randolph & Wells to Clark & Lake on the outer loop, returning to Harlem after that. I don't have any of the new stations at all, and have the old Homan, California, and Halsted B train stops, Kedzie and Ashland A train stops. When you're finished, your L will look nothing like mine, since from what I understand you're doing modern era and prototype, mine is more a mix of what it used to be and what it might have been if Eisenhower had never built the Interstate Highway system.
Couple videos;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBW_q52HCYQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x50E2QUBD0A
I haven't been to Texas for over 30 years, but I'm pretty sure they still sell sunglasses down there.
If you're talking about the NYCTA cars, I just threw those in there for the beta test session. "why didn't you use any L cars" related question, if the Texican is talking about my Chicago Metro bilevel scoot train, I'm still working on the color scheme for the Chicago Metro - This IS, after all, a fictional route, altho it's based on the Chicago & NorthWestern, Chicago Transit Authority Rapid Transit, and Belt Railway of Chicago.
Car on the left is the original color imported from Railworks, the middle one is the latest experiment with a darker blue.
Originally made the logo for Railworks, the Chicago Metro fans there were looking for a Chicago gangster image - I even had one engine with a tommygun on it. :hehe:
" how much of the L did you actually do?" "I can give you some corrections, starting with the Tower 18"
Again FICTIONAL ROUTE, the main focus is actually freight ops on the C&NW Galena Division;
And the main point will be fun to operate on, with prototype accuracy coming in last place. For example you might grab a Lake Street L at Harlem, drive it downtown, and instead of coming back to the west side you'll hang a right at Tower 8 onto the old Garfield Park L which will loop around and connect to the south end of the State Street subway. Which it never did in real life.
What I got so far is the Lake Street L as it existed prior to 1965 - before the Lake-Dan Ryan, the Lake Street line used to turn right at Tower 18, make all stops in the loop from Randolph & Wells to Clark & Lake on the outer loop, returning to Harlem after that. I don't have any of the new stations at all, and have the old Homan, California, and Halsted B train stops, Kedzie and Ashland A train stops. When you're finished, your L will look nothing like mine, since from what I understand you're doing modern era and prototype, mine is more a mix of what it used to be and what it might have been if Eisenhower had never built the Interstate Highway system.
Couple videos;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBW_q52HCYQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x50E2QUBD0A
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Sniper; I give you credit for attempting a large, Chicago flavor route... prototypical or not. You've obviously worked hard on it. Klinger's route will be nirvana for those that admire the "L", and there's yet another Chicago commuter route in the works as well. The truth is, there's just too much damn track in the area, and too many interchanges on top of that!
I do hope you were planning on asking permission to release those 2200 series L cars.....
Not sure I like the blue much....
Don't think that just because I am modeling the current L system, that I don't know the History of the L. Tower 18 is modeled wrong for your 1965 period.
here is a picture from 1969
http://www.chicago-l.org/trains/gallery/images/2000/cta2000sTower18.jpg
Notice Tower 18 is in the middle of the Track. However if you look in the background, you will see the Modern Tower 18. The changeover happened in 1969 after this picture was taken, and the track was rearranged accordingly
Also, your Garfield Park connection to the loop in incorrect for 1965 as well. In 1955, the Wells/Van Buren Tower 8 was taken out of service and demolished. By this time, Tower 22 was in service Between Jackson and Van Buren on Wells Street, and Garfield Park trains entered the Loop via that connection
http://www.chicago-l.org/operations/towers/images/tower22a.jpg
Yes, your route is fictional, but if your trying to follow what existed on the L prior to 1965, you for sure need to take a look at Tower 18 and rearrange it since it was built like that in the late 1890's and continued int that messed up orientation until 1969, well after your era
Not sure I like the blue much....
Don't think that just because I am modeling the current L system, that I don't know the History of the L. Tower 18 is modeled wrong for your 1965 period.
here is a picture from 1969
http://www.chicago-l.org/trains/gallery/images/2000/cta2000sTower18.jpg
Notice Tower 18 is in the middle of the Track. However if you look in the background, you will see the Modern Tower 18. The changeover happened in 1969 after this picture was taken, and the track was rearranged accordingly
Also, your Garfield Park connection to the loop in incorrect for 1965 as well. In 1955, the Wells/Van Buren Tower 8 was taken out of service and demolished. By this time, Tower 22 was in service Between Jackson and Van Buren on Wells Street, and Garfield Park trains entered the Loop via that connection
http://www.chicago-l.org/operations/towers/images/tower22a.jpg
Yes, your route is fictional, but if your trying to follow what existed on the L prior to 1965, you for sure need to take a look at Tower 18 and rearrange it since it was built like that in the late 1890's and continued int that messed up orientation until 1969, well after your era
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Well again, FICTIONAL FICTIONAL FICTIONAL. I was born in Chicago in 1953, so I'm well aware of things like the Garfield Park L being torn down and replaced with the Eisenhower expressway and the Congress/Douglas-Milwaukee line. My grandfather was one of the caisson workers who built the Dearborn Street subway. But I don't have the slightest interest in prototypical or historical accuracy, wherever accuracy gets in the way of operational fun, it's gonna lose that war by default. :wave:
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