JointedRail stuff [screenshots/renders]

Just some progress and shots.
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Nice Scratchy!

Is this the beginnings of a new route? :D

Your Coal Country is still up there among my favorites. Driving through those tree tunnels really sets the mood for the route.
 
Long Island Train 551 passes Nassau Tower as they roll into their stop at Mineola, just hopping of the Oyster Bay branch. This equipment will run back and forth between LIC and Oyster Bay a handful of times tonight.

Huge thanks to Josh for this killer model of Nassau. I've been waiting to take a shot here for quite some time and now it's just right! To all of those who asked if I modeled Mineola, yes. ;)


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Long Island Train 551 passes Nassau Tower as they roll into their stop at Mineola, just hopping of the Oyster Bay branch. This equipment will run back and forth between LIC and Oyster Bay a handful of times tonight.
Huge thanks to Josh for this killer model of Nassau. I've been waiting to take a shot here for quite some time and now it's just right! To all of those who asked if I modeled Mineola, yes. ;)

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Excellent shot!

Here's a unique video at Nassau Tower from 2015...

~James
 
Long Island Train 551 passes Nassau Tower as they roll into their stop at Mineola, just hopping of the Oyster Bay branch. This equipment will run back and forth between LIC and Oyster Bay a handful of times tonight.

Huge thanks to Josh for this killer model of Nassau. I've been waiting to take a shot here for quite some time and now it's just right! To all of those who asked if I modeled Mineola, yes. ;)

LOVELY! I rode by there literally 3 days ago. If there's one thing I'll gimmepig for..........

Keep up the superb work. You really have created a masterpiece.

If you don't mind me asking, have you modeled the old Grumman Factory yet? Or the central branch?
 
Thanks gents! The interest is what keeps the motivation alive.

As far as what has been modeled: the entire mainline is laid and signaled as far as Yaphank with all sidings and freight customers put in. The Central Branch as far as Babylon station (for RF-64 runaround purposes) has rails and signals laid as well.

...which leads me to answering the question about Grumman: I just half-modeled Grumman station not that long ago, and have a temporary tarmac slab laid down to mark where the facility will go. By this stage in the game, Grumman no longer had rail service (last car was spotted in 1981 according to my carload reports), but certainly still had a lineside presence.

That said, Fairchild Hiller (Republic) in Farmingdale still took cars through 1985 and is thus served by the RF-56 on this route. I do plan on eventually making the push to laying rails to LD (Riverhead), which means that I'll certainly put in the Naval Spur for Calverton, a location of which Grumman was also of course involved with. They took their last cars in 1985 (just 2!) from an extra crew who was tasked with running a pair of 1500s out to drop them off, and ultimately pick up a few weeks later. For the sake of my operations system, which is patterned off of how we operate the Bangor & Leiver with car turnover Google Docs, I have boosted these numbers a bit to provide some more interesting ops.

I love questions! Thanks for the interest.

Here's a quick shot from a few days ago. I ran an RF-Extra from Yard A (not modeled yet, but the Montauk Cutoff is modeled right up to that point) to Farmingdale (PW [Pinelawn] Team). This was taken after setting out the cars for tonight's RF-56 and spotting a bulkhead in the team yard. Republic Aviation and the airport are behind the photographer here.

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Hmm...I Haven't heard anything about the so called EMD E7 Project in a very long time.
And? Shall I post a gargantuan render every 5 hours showing how i moved a horn around or put in another bolt? Maybe even post once a day saying I made great progress on the so called E7 project? I have dozens of projects I'm concurrently working on. E units just don't happen to be taking the limelight right now.
 
Speaking of E units, how many projects of them are going on? I feel like there was at least one other person working on E units.

Nice shots knifeswitch1!
 
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