I'm very disappointed. Northern Pacific's Northcoast Limited, Great Northern's Empire Builder, SP Daylight's or even Milwaukee Road box cab electrics would have been a more versatile choice.
Maybe Auran should ask us what we want.
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I'm very disappointed. Northern Pacific's Northcoast Limited, Great Northern's Empire Builder, SP Daylight's or even Milwaukee Road box cab electrics would have been a more versatile choice.
Maybe Auran should ask us what we want.
Southern Pacific Daylight.
Reminds me of the Daylight heading to San Diego, CA in the '50's. I chased, caught, and passed it at just over 90MPH whilst riding the the highway alongside on a Vincent Black Lightning Brit bike.
Waved at the driver. He threw me the finger. Some things never change.:hehe:
Herb
Reminds me of the Daylight heading to San Diego, CA in the '50's. I chased, caught, and passed it at just over 90MPH whilst riding the the highway alongside on a Vincent Black Lightning Brit bike.
Waved at the driver. He threw me the finger. Some things never change.:hehe:
Herb
Cab-Forward
CowboyDoc51,
Paul of Paulz Trainz built me an AC-3 2-8-8-2 Cab-Forward and is avaliable at his site. He is currently building me the most advance, detailed AC-11 4-8-8-2 Cab-Forward taking advantage of all the new developments and advancements of Trainz 2010 and 2012, it will have a true to life 3D working cab with proper gauges and levers just as in the real thing. He also has built for me a GS-2 4-8-4 Daylight that is also now available. Lilby also has an AC-12 4-8-8-2 Cab-Forward with out cab that will run in Trainz 2010. To check these out and more check this YouTube of them on the upcomming Donner Pass route a joint project by TrainzItalia and VMD.
Steam Over Donner I Roseville to Emigrant Gap
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90kLJbu3mj4
Steam Over Donner II Emigrant Gap to Donner Summit
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2i0G4SdolY
Steam Over Donner III Donner Summit to Iceland
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfGQ4I2vzuQ
Southern Pacific GS-2 on West from Denver Trainz 2010
http://youtu.be/rTam9w0HKjI
Thunder in the Mountains (AC-3 Cab-Forward & ½ mile long freight)
on West from Denver Trainz 2010
http://youtu.be/u8rvU8PcDzk
The info For Steam Over Donner will tell you where each of Southern Pacific Steam locos used in the videos can be downloaded from.
Enjoy
Tom (harby46) Harbison
CowboyDoc51,
Paul of Paulz Trainz built me an AC-3 2-8-8-2 Cab-Forward and is avaliable at his site. He is currently building me the most advance, detailed AC-11 4-8-8-2 Cab-Forward taking advantage of all the new developments and advancements of Trainz 2010 and 2012, it will have a true to life 3D working cab with proper gauges and levers just as in the real thing. He also has built for me a GS-2 4-8-4 Daylight that is also now available. Lilby also has an AC-12 4-8-8-2 Cab-Forward with out cab that will run in Trainz 2010. To check these out and more check this YouTube of them on the upcomming Donner Pass route a joint project by TrainzItalia and VMD.
Steam Over Donner I Roseville to Emigrant Gap
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90kLJbu3mj4
Steam Over Donner II Emigrant Gap to Donner Summit
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2i0G4SdolY
Steam Over Donner III Donner Summit to Iceland
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfGQ4I2vzuQ
Southern Pacific GS-2 on West from Denver Trainz 2010
http://youtu.be/rTam9w0HKjI
Thunder in the Mountains (AC-3 Cab-Forward & ½ mile long freight)
on West from Denver Trainz 2010
http://youtu.be/u8rvU8PcDzk
The info For Steam Over Donner will tell you where each of Southern Pacific Steam locos used in the videos can be downloaded from.
Enjoy
Tom (harby46) Harbison
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Chelsea4884
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A dome train with detailed interiors and cameras would be a lot of fun. Say, are there any cars like that now on DLS?
But I'll cast my lot with Train of Tomorrow.
But I'll cast my lot with Train of Tomorrow.
Conductorphil
Master Yard Builder
Alot of the S&C cars have extremely detailed interiors.
The metroliner cars included in TS2012 also have detailed interiors.
The metroliner cars included in TS2012 also have detailed interiors.
By the 1950's, passenger revenues on America's railroads had long since passed their heyday. Automobiles were fast becoming an affordable option for the modern traveller, and flight was also steadily gaining in popularity.
If railroad passenger services were to survive, operators realised they would need to change their thinking and find a more cost effective approach.
Manufacturers of railroad equipment were also taking note of the changing age and sought to provide solutions for their valuable customers. How would rail travel survive in the future and what shape would tomorrow's trains take?
Can you guess what the mystery train is?
Stay tuned!
~R~
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TS 2012 en Français
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un fidele client d'Auran
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un fidele client d'Auran
More in sorrow than in anger
As a super-annuated survivor of better days, who rode the Empire Builder in the 1950s and watched the Olympian Hiawatha pull in more than once, I think you guys at Auran missed the boat. You have modelled a dud that went nowhere -- not a real train.
You have missed the opportunity to insert a really beautiful train into your Marias Pass scenarios, or model the engine changes of the Empire Builder from diesel to electric and back as she crossed the Cascade Range. The Milwaukee also claimed some big bragging rights over the beauty of its route through the Bitterroots, and ran under wire from Montana to its tidewater terminus on Puget Sound. And the Olympian Hiawatha was a beautiful train.
You also missed the opportunity to develop a great scenario as the California Zephyr -- the real one, not Amtrak's knock-off -- crossed the Sierra via the Feather River Canyon, wailed across the Great Basin, crossed the Wasatch and the High Plateau and slipped through the Moffat Tunnel and down the Front Range of the Rockies into Denver.
I sincerely hope you have taken the suggestions received from Americans who knew these trains to heart. Because your choice strikes me as non-salable in that market, while any of the trains named above would be sure fire winners.
Or for us steam nuts, drop back to pre-WWII and give us the Empire Builder from Seattle to Skykomish, with the engine change there to electric for the Cascade Tunnel and over to Cashmere and a change back to steam. I'm not old enough to be able to tell you if you can use a streamlined electric in such a scenario and be historically accurate. I can tell you such a scenario would be a visual knockout.
As a super-annuated survivor of better days, who rode the Empire Builder in the 1950s and watched the Olympian Hiawatha pull in more than once, I think you guys at Auran missed the boat. You have modelled a dud that went nowhere -- not a real train.
You have missed the opportunity to insert a really beautiful train into your Marias Pass scenarios, or model the engine changes of the Empire Builder from diesel to electric and back as she crossed the Cascade Range. The Milwaukee also claimed some big bragging rights over the beauty of its route through the Bitterroots, and ran under wire from Montana to its tidewater terminus on Puget Sound. And the Olympian Hiawatha was a beautiful train.
You also missed the opportunity to develop a great scenario as the California Zephyr -- the real one, not Amtrak's knock-off -- crossed the Sierra via the Feather River Canyon, wailed across the Great Basin, crossed the Wasatch and the High Plateau and slipped through the Moffat Tunnel and down the Front Range of the Rockies into Denver.
I sincerely hope you have taken the suggestions received from Americans who knew these trains to heart. Because your choice strikes me as non-salable in that market, while any of the trains named above would be sure fire winners.
Or for us steam nuts, drop back to pre-WWII and give us the Empire Builder from Seattle to Skykomish, with the engine change there to electric for the Cascade Tunnel and over to Cashmere and a change back to steam. I'm not old enough to be able to tell you if you can use a streamlined electric in such a scenario and be historically accurate. I can tell you such a scenario would be a visual knockout.
'The Hiawatha?
The Hiawatha?... We haven't seen that in TRS since 2004, and that has been missing from TRS for some time, though the hiawatha coaches were in there up till around TRS 2006, but they're gone too...
I don't even recall seeing the Hiawatha or its coaches in the DLS of late... It could be.... The return of The Famous Hiawatha streamlined steamie!.... Long Time No See!.....
I remember from Triang Hornby days, they had the Hiawatha in that, anyone here remember the old days of Triang Hornby, from way back in 1066-67... I had a double ended transcontinental Bo Bo Diesel, aka The 'VR B Class', and it had working head and cab lights... One of the models in that range at that time was The Famous Hiawatha... I distinctly remember it being in the catalogue.
The Hiawatha?... We haven't seen that in TRS since 2004, and that has been missing from TRS for some time, though the hiawatha coaches were in there up till around TRS 2006, but they're gone too...
I don't even recall seeing the Hiawatha or its coaches in the DLS of late... It could be.... The return of The Famous Hiawatha streamlined steamie!.... Long Time No See!.....
I remember from Triang Hornby days, they had the Hiawatha in that, anyone here remember the old days of Triang Hornby, from way back in 1066-67... I had a double ended transcontinental Bo Bo Diesel, aka The 'VR B Class', and it had working head and cab lights... One of the models in that range at that time was The Famous Hiawatha... I distinctly remember it being in the catalogue.
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Wrong topic?
Not of the persons who have posted here, but by Auran. This new offering is of value, but it is not the sort of landmark that the organization at the peak of the Trainz pyramid, i.e., the Trainz company, should put out. That is why I suggest that most of the posts, and most importantly, Auran's offering, is off topic, in a real sense.
A much better choice of topic would, in my opinion, have been one of the famous American name trains like the Empire Builder - the real one, or the Lark, or the 20th Century, or the Rocket; or the Orient Express for an international appeal, or whatever; maybe a line of TOFC equipment, as initiated by Dinorius Redundicus, not on the Trainz-ubiquitous generic clunky roller bearing trucks, and not carrying moving vans (?); perhaps a line of well detailed MOW equipment; or almost anything else that would have some general appeal like, perhaps, a line of post 2006 level detailed freight or passenger cars, from all countries, available for skinning by some of our talented creators.
What were they thinking? They might well get my $20AUD when I feel flush because I've got a picture that shows that their offering made a bit of a splash on the route I am building, but I doubt this giraffe will end up tempting many to spring for the old leather to buy it.
It shouldn't be necessary, but probably is, to say that I don't mean this as an insult to Auran aka N3V or anyone else. But if you are at the top of the pyramid, and I think you are, your best chance of sales is with things that anyone from Yakima to Yakutsk can use. My suggestions are only examples and may, admittedly, be parochial, but we all want to see you succeed and it appears to this fan that producing and offering niche products will not fill the bill.
Anyhow, please accept my continuing loyalty,
Bernie
Not of the persons who have posted here, but by Auran. This new offering is of value, but it is not the sort of landmark that the organization at the peak of the Trainz pyramid, i.e., the Trainz company, should put out. That is why I suggest that most of the posts, and most importantly, Auran's offering, is off topic, in a real sense.
A much better choice of topic would, in my opinion, have been one of the famous American name trains like the Empire Builder - the real one, or the Lark, or the 20th Century, or the Rocket; or the Orient Express for an international appeal, or whatever; maybe a line of TOFC equipment, as initiated by Dinorius Redundicus, not on the Trainz-ubiquitous generic clunky roller bearing trucks, and not carrying moving vans (?); perhaps a line of well detailed MOW equipment; or almost anything else that would have some general appeal like, perhaps, a line of post 2006 level detailed freight or passenger cars, from all countries, available for skinning by some of our talented creators.
What were they thinking? They might well get my $20AUD when I feel flush because I've got a picture that shows that their offering made a bit of a splash on the route I am building, but I doubt this giraffe will end up tempting many to spring for the old leather to buy it.
It shouldn't be necessary, but probably is, to say that I don't mean this as an insult to Auran aka N3V or anyone else. But if you are at the top of the pyramid, and I think you are, your best chance of sales is with things that anyone from Yakima to Yakutsk can use. My suggestions are only examples and may, admittedly, be parochial, but we all want to see you succeed and it appears to this fan that producing and offering niche products will not fill the bill.
Anyhow, please accept my continuing loyalty,
Bernie
NSWGR_46Class
Just call my Captain Rude
IIRC its called the aerotrain - but I only know this as I read the whole thread
http://forums.auran.com/trainz/showthread.php?p=896422#post896422
Retro00064
New member
The correct answer is the Aerotrain, which has been released. Perhaps this thread should be closed with a comment stating this (or at least the original post should be edited) to save people from continuing to guess at what the train is.
Regards,
Retro.
Regards,
Retro.
Turbotrain
Yes please fix it for Trainz2012 as I was the one who originally asked Pikkabird to make it for me in the past, I would like to see it for 2012.:'(
Yes please fix it for Trainz2012 as I was the one who originally asked Pikkabird to make it for me in the past, I would like to see it for 2012.:'(
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