Illinois Railroad Museum W.I.P Thread

[trainman7616]

Hi all,

Decided to start a random project about 3 weeks ago with a few friends. We felt as though there werent many railroad museum based routes/maps, so we want to change that. So to start with is the Illinois Railroad Museum in Union, Illinois.



Members of this project are listed below

Trainman7616
Lego207
Petrama25
Vinnie264


To start, here are some shots of developement so far including some reskins and custom projects for it.


The lower part of the yard showing Yards 13 and 14, Storage Barn areas 10 and 11, Building and goods shed area.

This shot shows the area of the display barn area and Electric car shop along with the East Union Station and gift shop areas.

Reverse view of the display barns

General overview shot

Following locomotive projects.

Chicago South Shore & South Bend EF4 #800 class by Petrama25, original mesh by JosheH

Milwaukee Road Northern #265 by trainman7616

CB&Q #504 SD9 standin for the SD24 - Reskinned by Vinnie264

Buildings are currently only standin for the time being. High quality buildings will be made in the future. Current standin buildings by Petrama25.

Track work was done by trainman7616, and the paths were done by petrama25. We dont know when this project will be complete, but when it is, it will be availible to all to download.

 

[trainman7616]

Tough Switchwork

Some of the switch work on this was tricky to get but I think it turned out good, considering the switches are really close together and some are based coming off turns which are not always easy to make smoothly.

Tracks leading into Display Barns 6, 7, and 8.

 

[817TAYLOR]

Matt it'll be k.......
Vinny I love the skin but the one at IRM is and SD24... Just wanted to share that.

 

[oknotsen]

Lets stick to screenshots, shall we?

// Moderator-mode
Please keep this screenshot topic about screenshots.

There is no need for a fight; both persons / groups can do their own thing.

Regards,
O
Part-time moderator, but prefers to be screenshot appreciator.

Edit: O look, it looks like a screenshot topic again.

 

[whitepass]

Things like this do happen, three of us all started make the same set of passenger cars at the same time!

 

[n8phu]

Great screenshots!

The locomotives are looking great! I am sure many within the community will be happy to have them.

 

[n8phu]

Things like this do happen, three of us all started make the same set of passenger cars at the same time!

Indeed, it happens all the time..

 

[STLSF4003]

Keep up the Good work Chance, you'r doing great!

 

[trainman7616]

Thanks STLSF4003 but its not only me. Couldnt do this project without the help of the others.

 

[STLSF4003]

And i must say, you've got quite the team helping you here.

 

[Matt3985]

Can't you guys at least tell me how you got that google map of IRM into Trainz, that is the one thing that preventing me from starting my own project or at least send that to me, that would be very helpful.

 

[oknotsen]

Off-topic

Can't you guys at least tell me how you got that google map of IRM into Trainz, that is the one thing that preventing me from starting my own project or at least send that to me, that would be very helpful.

Download and install Google Earth.
Go to this website and download Ge-Path.
Fool around with Ge-Path till you figured out how to make a KML file of 720x720m grid at the coordinates of the museum.
Make screenshots and add those to basemaps.

Let's not spoil this topic with a discussion about this, but go to this topic in which I found it:
http://forums.auran.com/trainz/showthread.php?97146-Mapping-With-Google-Earth&highlight=Ge-Path

 

[petrama25]

 

[generalman]

Wow. That is a very, VERY large track plan for a museum... Or at least it's way bigger than the Kentucky Railway Museum. Maybe I'm just use to KRM though because it's small to being with, I suppose.

 

[lego207]

Yeah, IRM is shockingly large. They've got some 5 miles of tracks they run small excursions on with plenty of sheds to store their collection. They're doin' good stuff there.

I'm actually heading to IRM soon (next few weeks), and I'll be snapping tons of pics to help out the crew here, everything from the 803 to the 265 to the sheds.

Cheers,
SM

 

[chris2001trainz2010]

Boy, that's a helluva lot bigger than Steamtown!

 

[generalman]

Well I mean KRM runs their excursion on 11 or 13, (one of those two), miles of track, they just don't have near as much yard space as what IRM apparently has.

 

[petrama25]

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[MeowRailroad]

I like how you decided to model it in fall. It seems like 80% of stuff is in the summer.

 

[chris2001trainz2010]

Petrama, is it just me or does the curve to the bottom left of your last photo seem a little sharp?