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Yes – I agree – this streetcar (tramway) car barn looks like it will be a "must" for large streetcar routes.
Have you counted the number of polygons? As far as I know you will have to set up some carefully arranged LOD-steps as T:ANE now allows maximum 500 polys for the lowest LOD-mesh and a minimum difference of 20% between two LOD-steps.
And last but not leased – do you plan to make that masterpiece seasonal – like my streetcar barn inside T:ANE-Dlx?

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Your’s TUME
 
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With a styrene load of tender fuel? You should cut some twigs and use them. I have heard that Mountain Laurel makes good logs. :hehe:

LOL. But twigs don't quite look right, so 3D printing the load from the C&C locos is much easier. :p Don't worry, I'll paint them and the airhoses later.
 
I see there a lot of wonderful creations ! :udrool:

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from left to right :

- TGV Duplex (last generation of french high speed train, with 2 levels)
- CC 6500 "broken nose"
- TGV 001 (test train equipped with gas turbines)
- BB 7200 "broken nose"
- TGV PSE (first generation of electric high speed train. PSE stands for Paris South East)
- CC 72000 "broken nose"
- TGV Atlantique (second generation of electric high speed train.)
 
This certainly feels like childhood to me when I saw the orange TGV in TRS 2004 and 06 and used Trainz Paint Shed to reprint the TGV. My goodness those were the days, good work!
 
This certainly feels like childhood to me when I saw the orange TGV in TRS 2004 and 06 and used Trainz Paint Shed to reprint the TGV. My goodness those were the days, good work!

Indeed, to me too ! :D A lot of memories...
I liked to transform the TGV PSE in postal TGV ! A nice yellow freight high speed train, they stopped it in June 2015 unfortunately.

Those TGVs are amazing, iPodEdE. Fascinating that there was a diesel turbine TGV - I didn't know that was ever a thing.

Hello Trainboi ! :wave:

In fact, the TGV equipped with gas turbines was made based in the Turbotrain RTG idea, that successfully worked. The project started in 1972 and they adapted the plane comfort quality in a high speed train, and adding to each bogeys (6 in total, for 5 blocks : motor unit - 1st class - laboratory - 2nd class - motor unit) 2 electric motors (in both motor units, the turbines group drives an alternator)

By the way, that TGV is very different from others, not only because of the traction method used, but the general design is different.

On a PSE, Atlantique or Duplex TGV for example, you can remove the motor unit by uncoupling it.
On the 001, the motor unit and the passenger car are based on 1 bogey (jacob bogey).

Finally, the 001 became a statue, that we can see near the place where it was made.

:)
 
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To use or not to use. This model is key to my route, and it has an illuminated 3d text sign on the side of it. Adding it more than doubles the face count even with the text set as low it can without looking bad....hmmm
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To use or not to use. This model is key to my route, and it has an illuminated 3d text sign on the side of it. Adding it more than doubles the face count even with the text set as low it can without looking bad....hmmm

Have you tried adding a decimate modifier to it? I've found using the Planar setting reduces the text poly count to something more acceptable whilst looking almost exactly the same...
 
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