shaneturner12
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Shane
Shane
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Oh so true ... You will move into the dimly blue lit basement ... your kids will say: "Where's Daddy" ... The wife will go on vacation, leaving you home alone ... and you will not even know that she was gone ... Your neighbors will hate you, and call the cops, complaining that there is a train station operating right next door ... Your dreams will no longer be of vacationing in Tahiti, and instead your dreams will now be in Trainz surveyor, laying track in your sleep, and fixing config files while in your daydreams ... And when you see a beautiful sunset, you will remark: "That looks like Pomme Sky13, or Electro Sunset".
Once you start to use Trainz kiss goodbye to normal life. You will never be the same again.:hehe:
Regards Dave.
I'm already finding that out quickly. Luckily I have a job that allows me to play anytime. Down with work! Hopefully I'll learn how to show everyone my progress. Do I need to do the 1,000's of Content Updates found on the main menu page? Or only the ones I choose to use?
Do you recommend starting with an available layout and "editing" to my liking as a better way than building a complete layout from scratch? I am worried that landscapes (hills, mtns, rivers) will be a little overwhelming at first. i.e. - practice makes perfect.As a former model railroader myself, I highly endorse Trainz. You'll be hard-pressed to find a better simulator and the support here on the forums is top notch. I'd still like to have a model railroad for that hands on experience; however, who has a house big enough to build a 100 mile or larger layout. This you can do with Trainz and really get the feel of operating a railroad. Go for it, you can't go wrong.
Do you recommend starting with an available layout and "editing" to my liking as a better way than building a complete layout from scratch? I am worried that landscapes (hills, mtns, rivers) will be a little overwhelming at first. i.e. - practice makes perfect.
Andy,
You are going about this the right way. Take things one step at a time rather than plunging in knee deep into the mud! Seriously, when working on your first route you don't want to dig yourself into a project that will kill your enthusiasm instantly.
What area do you plan to model? There are a whole bunch of routes up there on the DLS and I don't want to go too far and make any recommendations because what I like may not be what you do.
What I did way, way back when I purchased TRS2004, is to download various routes and then open them up in Surveyor to see how they were built. Some were really, really, bad while others were awesome. I experimented with adding on tracks and other stuff before I started my own routes. When I did start my own, I used some of the techniques I had learned while poking around the downloaded routes. Eventually, these early routes became what I have today as my main route. This route, like any model railroad or artistic creation, is never complete and probably never will be finished. We will always find areas to improve and redo. In fact these renovations have happened a few times already as my modeling techniques improved over the years.
John
I would like to have similar and towns/cities of the B&O Railroad. But I am not looking to duplicate the railroad entirely.
And it's industries.