Ecuador's Tren Crucero

[HiBaller]

Check out this railroad. Looks like a very nice one:

http://blog.sfgate.com/getlost/2013...cuadors-new-luxury-sightseeing-train/#13687-1

I found the article in today's San Francisco Gate.

Bill

 

[sawyer811]

typical: they get one of the most beautiful, narrow gauge steam worked railways and immediately think "Let's put an ugly diesel on the head end of the new luxury train!" /rant

This, my dear HiBaller, is what SHOULD be leading that train: http://www.lifewastedchasingtrains.com/main.php?g2_itemId=1111 take your pic of the beauties on this page!

 

[HiBaller]

I agree but, hey man, it no my fault! I was part of the team that did the DHR for Trainz. Don't need no steenkin' diesels there either.

BIll

 

[JCitron]

This would be an interesting route to build and operate. Those brightly colored Baldwin steam engines are gorgeous and so is the countryside.

John

 

[HiBaller]

I thought so also, John. I wonder if a DEM could be built up for that area. I'm not even sure exactly where it runs from and to.

Bill

 

[JCitron]

I thought so also, John. I wonder if a DEM could be built up for that area. I'm not even sure exactly where it runs from and to.

Bill

Hi Bill,

I'm not sure where it runs, but here is a source of DEM data that can be used.

http://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/

You need to create a login to download, but it's free.

John

 

[HiBaller]

Great site, John. I did a preliminary link between the three cities mentioned in the article. That would be a very large DEM to link them. It took six of us 3 and a half years to go 54 miles. I'm not sure I'm ready for another one like that. Still, it would be interesting.

Bill

 

[markbin]

Hi , i found this old post while looking for tree-photo's for my Devilsnose route . I am an old trainz user and loved the DHR very much . I was making the Devilsnose route in Railworks ( train simulator ) in 2011-2012 when i got some sort of problem that i no longer could load the route . I had the traject Riobamba-Alausi- Sibambe (the devilsnose zigzag ) -Buquay.
Now i am starting over with the part of the route that i could recuperate.
I tell this because i have some usefull info : maps ( most of that traject is not covered by google earth; its just a blob ) and diagrams , and a lot of photo's , in case someone want to build that route .
I had 3ds max files of the stations along the route , but because i gave up in 2012 , they are gone .
But for my new attempt i still have the stations in Railworks format.