Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad

Our wonderful friend Prowler has just delivered some packages for Trainz, so you will be seeing screenshots of Sublette sometime soon...as soon as I create it :) I haven't been progressing much because of Thanksgiving...even though that was over a week ago. The coaches are also being worked over, but I think I will release the faded green ones separate.
 
Ok, I'm finally getting back in gear. Here are a few screenshots of what I did at Sublette last night at 10 PM...
Approaching the standpipe at Sublette. I created the model and basic textures, Todd spruced them up and scripted it. Thank you so much!
The tender of 489 absorbing the badly needed water at Sublette (Broken link-google is being stupid--I'll fix it this afternoon)
Another shot, to the east
The standpipe swinging back
And we're getting on our way...not far though-I only have track laid about a tenth to a quarter mile past Sublette. I'll lay the siding and add some more trees tonight, probably, and then start working on the buildings for Sublette.

Enjoy!
Tim
 
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I see you took my advice about planting trees; Keeps the poly counts low!:hehe:
Not bad at all, in fact it's looking pretty good so far.:cool: can't wait to see what my hometown looks like!

-DRGW489
 
Right now...a bunch of grid lines with red, blue, and turquoise markings, and one enginehouse :cool: That will change soon, though! Next major step is finishing the track from Cresco to Lobato, where I have some track already laid. I have coaches 500-506 done, but no attatchmentpoints for passengers. DRGW489, also, wasn't 506 Taos renamed as a Parlour Car recently? If so, which one?
 
HawkeyeFultz said:
Right now...a bunch of grid lines with red, blue, and turquoise markings, and one enginehouse :cool: That will change soon, though! Next major step is finishing the track from Cresco to Lobato, where I have some track already laid. I have coaches 500-506 done, but no attatchmentpoints for passengers. DRGW489, also, wasn't 506 Taos renamed as a Parlour Car recently? If so, which one?
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at the moment I don't have the list with me. This is all from memory so bare with me; The cars that are parlor cars now are the #510 "Clarence Quinland"; #511 "Joe Vigil"; #506?(handicap car) "Carl Turner"; Caboose 0306 "Lewis Entz"; Cabose 05635, "Robert Tully";

The problem I have is, I had all the cars numbers and names memorized. Then in 2001, they renamed all the cars! I don't know what they are now, but I'm sure I could find out.

I'll get back to you on the numbers, names, and such. See what I can dig up...
-DRGW489

EDIT:
This is the roster as of the end of the 2006 season

Antonito Side Cars(flat roof)
FOLLOWING BUILT IN 1981
500 "Alamosa"
501 "Antonito"
502 "Lava" Concession car
503 "Big Horn"
504 "Sublette"
505 "Toltec" Restroom
506 "Taos" Restroom, handicap <---This car is now Parlor Car #506 "CARL M TURNER"

Chama Side Cars(round roof)
FOLLOWING BUIL IN 1986
510 "Clarence Quinlan" Parlor car, restroom
511 "Joseph C. "Joe" Vigil" Parlor car, recently added restroom.
512 "Osier" Concession Car
513 "Conejos", recently added restroom
514 "Pagosa Springs"
515 "Coxo" Restroom
516 "Lobato" restroom, handicap
FOLLOWING BUILT IN 1991
520 "Cumbres"
521 "Santa Fe"
522 "Cresco"
FOLLOWING BUILT IN 1997
517 "Chama"
523 "Los Pinos"
 
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CARL TURNER!!! That's It!!! It's great to have you around, 489:D I'll be posting some more screenshots this evening, hopefully, so bear with me:wave: I have photos of them with all the current names...I had them all named until Todd reworked the coach texture to tone it down...now all I need is the encouragement to fix all of the steel-sided coaches ;) I have the wooden ones done, except for re-renaming Taos to Carl Turner: I thought I saw a photo on www.cumbrestoltecshops.com where it is titled CARL M. TURNER. However, the website is down right now so I can't access those photos. However, if anyone has any specs and/or drawings for the cabeese mentioned in the previous post, please get them to me-I actually wasn't planning on building them, but it's worth a shot!

EDIT: Thanks for getting the information! I'm printing it off now :)
 
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HawkeyeFultz said:
However, if anyone has any specs and/or drawings for the cabeese mentioned in the previous post, please get them to me-I actually wasn't planning on building them, but it's worth a shot!

EDIT: Thanks for getting the information! I'm printing it off now :)
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The two cabeese are "home-built" cars.
caboose 0306 was built from boxcar 3060 in the 1980s. The easiest way to distinguish the 0306 is the boxcar style roof.
http://riogranderoster.home.att.net/cab0306.htm

caboose 05635 was built from stockcar 5635. The 05635 was rather unique as up until 2003, it was an outside frame caboose.
http://riogranderoster.home.att.net/cab05635.htm

The 05635's greatest moment of glory was being "The Magic Caboose" in the movie "Indian Jones and the Last Crusaide." Since 2007, caboose 05635 has been rebuilt to resemble a D&RGW caboose, thus it is now an inside frame caboose.

Yes, the 506 is named "CARL M TURNER."
Carlos had a server error or something like that a while back. He had it fixed for a while, and then it went south again.

Steel sided cars?!? If you're refering to the Chama side cars, then yes. They are made of steel, but the sides are fiber glass. All of the coaches were build from 6500 series flatcars and the final two (517, & 523) are from Ex-D&RGW Standard Gauge M-of-W flatcars.
-DRGW489
 
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Yeah...I know...I noticed that afterward but didn't bother to change it to fiberglass-must have been thinking somehow of D&SNG's coaches 330 and 331 built by the Rio Grande in the late sixties with steel sides. Ah, well, I'm repainting them and will have them up by the end of the week if all goes well. Later I'll add attatchment points for passengers.
 
Okay, I've made a little progress at Lobato--got some textures and grass laid! No trees yet, but that will come soon. Here are a few shots. I took these on a rainy day, which brought back fond memories of riding the C&TS--at this point in my real life trip the locomotive-number 488 as I am using in the shots-kept losing traction. That was really amazing, and gave me a glimpse of just how powerful these steamers are.

Shot of the front of 488

Pulling by the siding at Lobato

488 rounding the final curve before the trestle.

Easing on to the trestle at a snail's pace of 7 miles per hour

From the other side of the trestle.

Enjoy!

Tim
 
HawkeyeFultz said:
Easing on to the trestle at a snail's pace of 7 miles per hour
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yeah, but on the narrow gauge, 7 miles per hour is flying! :hehe:
grass covering the rails, tracks sunk in the mud, yeap, sounds like the last few years on the C&TS. This summer, however, this section looks like a Class 1 railroad. The crews have been working their tails off getting the track into shape and have done a job well done.

-DRGW489
 
Maximum speed : 12MPH

Run Time: 1 hour and 10 min

the one issue with the K-36's as are most narrow gauge engines, is they were never equiped with speedometers, and I have been old the climb from Chama to Cumbres has been made within the hour!:hehe:

-DRGW489
 
Hmmm...hotshot hogger? When I rode, down by Hangman's Trestle, I was timing the mileposts and we were going about 19-22 mph. The K-36s max out at 35, but I read the K-28s can hit up to 50! In the narrow gauge world, then, the K-28 would compare to the Concorde...
 
HawkeyeFultz said:
Hmmm...hotshot hogger? When I rode, down by Hangman's Trestle, I was timing the mileposts and we were going about 19-22 mph. The K-36s max out at 35, but I read the K-28s can hit up to 50! In the narrow gauge world, then, the K-28 would compare to the Concorde...
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The speed limit from Antonito to Mile Post 285.5 is 22mph. so, yes.

The San Juan, when pulled by a K-28, was a rocket. Maximum Speed between Alamosa and Antonito was 45 and the K-28's had no problems attaining this speed, and thats why the railroaders called them "Sports Models." The San Juan could complete the journey from Alamosa to Durango in an average time of around 8 hours. 199.81 miles separate those two cities. That's about 25mph average. But this also includes all stops, and a stop in Chama to service the engine. if you subtract the time spent at the stations, that average will go up.:D

-DRGW489
 
Ok. I've been doing a lot of work on the new coaches, so I haven't payed much attention to the route. However, I did lay a couple miles of track, so I'm nearly to Cresco. I decided to hook up ten of these 25 ton coaches to 488 and haul them up the 4% grade just past Lobato trestle, which I have added trees to. What fun!

Interior shot of the coach. Still has a lot of work to be done.
488 hauling her precious load of around 270 tons across the trestle.
Close up of the coach. The bogeys were made by me, but I do need to tone down the reflective texture:p
Looking back at Lobato under grey skies. Looks like it's about to rain!

Tim
 
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