Major Tri State Area Project
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Amtrak P42 hauling Amtrak Horizon Coaches toward the northern end of Inwood in upper Manhattan.
Amtrak P42 consist in Dyckman Manhattan, under the Henry Hudson ramp.
Horizons along the Hudson.
Inside the cab of an Amtrak P42.
Status Update: Over 95% of scenery work between the northern end of Inwood and George Washington is complete. All tracks are done, just need to start working on signals.
I need a bit of help now. I heard that dmdrake's forest splines are low poly so they should be ok to use without much lag. I know there is an art to placing his forest splines in surveyor but how can i make them look good on the baseboard. I want my forest splines to be placed down just like the ones on Zorronov's Hudson River route. From what I know, it is good to place them perpendicular to the tracks and keep them a couple of meters from the tracks so there won't be any stuttering in trainz. Also, can someone help me with signal work. I had recently downloaded some old NYC signals from the New York Central Era, Amtrak signals, and PRR signals but I don't know what each signal means or what the purpose of each one is. This is the final version of the Major Tri State Area Project so there will be no starting over on this. Right now, if I use my Inspiron 1545 laptop with Accelerated Integrated Graphics and turn Gamebooster on, when I am in the cab, I can get around 15-20fps. Back on topic, would anyone know where I can download some high quality cars (eg: Honda, Ford, Nissan, trucks, buses, etc)?
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I took a break from Amtrak's West Side line and began working on a small portion of Metro North's Hudson line. The Screenshots below take place in the University Heights Section of the Bronx. Sooner or later, I will get to the point where Amtrak and Metro North merge on the Hudson line. Taking my time with this and so far, no stuttering at all, barely any lag with Intel Media Accelerator GMA 5400MHD. So far,I think this project is great. Would anyone know where I can find some MTA buses. The buses that I am looking for are the New Flyer D60HF, Nova LFS, Nova RTS, and Orion. Well, here are some shots.
BN GEEP pulling some rusted Hoppers with Grafitti south along the former Putnam line. This set is headed for the Oak Point yards which is in the Southern Section of the Bronx.
Metro North P32AC-DM pulling Shoreliner III's toward Marble Hill. On the side is the end of West Fordham Road. Looks like today is a day to do some track maintenance on the Lumber Yard tracks. None of these buildings are probably close to what is really there but I thought these buildings would make it seem like this takes place in an Industrial area with some old abandoned buildings, and factories.
Viewing the same Geep we saw before from the cab of a Metro North Genny. What does everyone think of this portion of the Metro North?
BN GEEP pulling some rusted Hoppers with Grafitti south along the former Putnam line. This set is headed for the Oak Point yards which is in the Southern Section of the Bronx.
Metro North P32AC-DM pulling Shoreliner III's toward Marble Hill. On the side is the end of West Fordham Road. Looks like today is a day to do some track maintenance on the Lumber Yard tracks. None of these buildings are probably close to what is really there but I thought these buildings would make it seem like this takes place in an Industrial area with some old abandoned buildings, and factories.
Viewing the same Geep we saw before from the cab of a Metro North Genny. What does everyone think of this portion of the Metro North?
stratuspheretrish
Member
Nice Work! 
Here are some more screenshots of the Major Tri State Area Project. So far, all of my screenshots are from when I worked with Trainz on my Dell Inspiron 1545 laptop with Integrated Graphics Media Accelerator. There is a good amount of detail on the Major Tri State Area Project so I can only reach a maximum of 22 or 23 fps and a minumum of 4 or 5fps. So far, Amtrak's west side line from George Washington Bridge-Inwood is complete and the Hudson line from University Heights-Marble Hill is complete. This laptop has served me well with trainz for the last 3 years but now, it is time to upgrade to a better piece of equipment. After these screenshots of the project, I won't post any screenshots for a couple of weeks because I will be working on building a new gaming PC that will hopefully handle the next version up from trainz 2009 which would be 2010 flawlessly or as smooth as butter..
Power Supply: Ultra Limited Edition 700W ATX power supply
Processor: AMD Phenom II X4 965 black edition boxed processor @3.4Ghz
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-970A-UD3 AM3+AMD 970 Sata 6GB/s, USB 3.0 ATX motherboard
Graphics Card: 1GB EVGA GTX 550Ti Fermi, 900 or 951Mhz core clock
RAM: Corsair Vengeance 8GB DDR3 RAM
Hard Drive: Seagate Barracude 1TB 7200RPM hard drive
System Case: Z9 ATX mid tower case
Once the computer is complete, then I will continue Here are the specs for my new budget gaming PC that will run the Major Tri StateArea Project in Trainz 2010. Anywho, trainz 2009 WBE is no longer in revenue service on my laptop
. Anywho, here are the screenshots. What does everyone think?
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EMD SD60 at idle with some rusted grafitti BN freight cars near University Heights
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What a suprise, testing NJT P40BH wit a mixture of NJT comet III coach and Comet IV cab car where the good ol Putnam Line merges from the Hudson line.
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Ultra rare in trainz, a Metro North at University heights after coming from a Yankee game. These M6's are bound for Croton Harmon where some repairs will be made, then they will continue regular service on the New Haven Line. Metro North shoreliner I's bound for Grand Central Terminal at University Heights.
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Metro North M6 approaching University Heights station.
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What a suprise, a NYC R142A subway car waiting for a Metro North GP35R to take it to the Yonkers Kawasaki Plant where it will be retrofitted and converted to pre R188 so it can soon begin revenue service on the 7 line.
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Metro North M7's at Marble Hill station bound for Grand Central Terminal.
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Van Cortlandt park 242nd street bound R62 1 train at 225th street in Marble Hill. In the distance, you can see the Henry Hudson Bridge by Spuyten Duyvil
. Power Supply: Ultra Limited Edition 700W ATX power supply
Processor: AMD Phenom II X4 965 black edition boxed processor @3.4Ghz
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-970A-UD3 AM3+AMD 970 Sata 6GB/s, USB 3.0 ATX motherboard
Graphics Card: 1GB EVGA GTX 550Ti Fermi, 900 or 951Mhz core clock
RAM: Corsair Vengeance 8GB DDR3 RAM
Hard Drive: Seagate Barracude 1TB 7200RPM hard drive
System Case: Z9 ATX mid tower case
Once the computer is complete, then I will continue Here are the specs for my new budget gaming PC that will run the Major Tri StateArea Project in Trainz 2010. Anywho, trainz 2009 WBE is no longer in revenue service on my laptop
. Anywho, here are the screenshots. What does everyone think?
EMD SD60 at idle with some rusted grafitti BN freight cars near University Heights
What a suprise, testing NJT P40BH wit a mixture of NJT comet III coach and Comet IV cab car where the good ol Putnam Line merges from the Hudson line.
Ultra rare in trainz, a Metro North at University heights after coming from a Yankee game. These M6's are bound for Croton Harmon where some repairs will be made, then they will continue regular service on the New Haven Line. Metro North shoreliner I's bound for Grand Central Terminal at University Heights.
Metro North M6 approaching University Heights station.
What a suprise, a NYC R142A subway car waiting for a Metro North GP35R to take it to the Yonkers Kawasaki Plant where it will be retrofitted and converted to pre R188 so it can soon begin revenue service on the 7 line.
Metro North M7's at Marble Hill station bound for Grand Central Terminal.
Van Cortlandt park 242nd street bound R62 1 train at 225th street in Marble Hill. In the distance, you can see the Henry Hudson Bridge by Spuyten Duyvil
stratuspheretrish
Member
THIS route look great!!!!!!! I can't wait to the release. But wait, how do you use a DEM? >_____<
Thank you. I do not have a release date yet because this route will have several railroads and will have parts of New York, New Jersey and Connecticut. In order to build your own DEM, you have to purchase Transdem first. Once you have the program, you can go to the USGS seamless servers and choose the area you want to download. The DEM will probably be a GIF image. Once you load your DEM into Transdem, then you can export it into trainz. I am working with 1/3 arc sec DEM's for my Major Tri State Area Project. If you don't want to purchase Transdem, you can find a whole bunch of DEM's on the DLS by a trainzer named Fishlipsatwork. I think Transdem is the way to go if you want to build a DEM for any area of the United States.
Ok. It will take a good amount of time though. I will probably make Grand Central in a way where it will be 1 level instead of 2, or maybe have some room left over so I can build the new section for the East Side Access Project so LIRR trains can easily get from Sunnyside,Queens to Grand Central in one shot. As far as the M3 goes, I believe he is releasing it. He will be working on the Metro North M3 along with M3A and the LIRR M3. Is it just me or did Trainz just get 10 times better?
I know this is going to annoy alot of people, the project is not dead or anything. It is put on hold for several weeks until I get my gaming computer up and running, along with all the drivers, updates, and all other things needed for windows 7. Along with that, the Kawasaki M8 that I am working on is put on hold until my new computer is up and running. Lately, I have been looking at many screenshots on the forum and I've been thinking about rebuilding the Major Tri State Area Project. It will still have the Metro North WOH, Metro North EOH, LIRR, Amtrak, NJT, CSX, BN, P&W, Housatonic Railroad, Shoreline East, ACES, and New England Railroads. Originally, I was thinking about having all of these railroads in one huge route. After doing some thinking, I then thought about how other computers would be able to handle such a huge route so I then thought about breaking it up into two sections. One portion of the Major Tri State Area Project will contain Metro North WOH Port Jervis (Main line), Pascack Valley line, Norfolk and Southern. That portion of the project will begin at Hoboken Terminal and end at the last stations on the line.
Now for the other portion of the Major Tri State Area Project, I will begin working at Grand Central Terminal and work my way up to Mott Haven Junction. Once that is done, I will begin working on Penn Station and make my way through the sunnyside yards working my way up to the Hellgate Bridge. The rest will be a suprise. I don't want to spoil everything. . Below is steps on plan on taking to make this a great route.
1. Study Transdem a bit more. I know that I have a DEM with a reference map stiched to it from the mapping servers built withing Transdem but I would like to build and construct this more efficiently. I would like to somehow plan this in a way like the Reading and Northern Route was planned.
2. Once I understand Transdem a bit more, acquire the portions of the route I need and somehow acquire some sort of good quality orthoimagery that I can use as a reference to place down the tracks, roads, and rivers.
3. Once the route is in Trainz 2010, I plan to build the routes a bit differently than I have been used to building. I plan on using the old Chunky Mesh track, such as the built in HP and MP tracks, or Greenery tracks. I would like to make this a great looking route but also keep it friendly with the frame rates. The JR tracks look the best but I don't know how they are on turnouts, portions pop into view as you drive the train, and it looks brand new. The Chunky Mesh track have that look as if they were used so many times on the rails. Overall, I think the Chunky Mesh tracks are a good all around track as far as looks and performance goes.
4. For scenery, I would like to know what would be better. Mcguriel's treez from the DLS, Pofig's treez, speed treez, or the trees from the greenery website. I have never used treez before but Pofig's treez look great. How are they as far as performance and fps goes. Which tree would run great in Trainz 2010. I think Pofig's treez are used on the 2012 Reading and Northern Route.
5. Which roads would look better, YARN or Aashto.
6. For the final part, can someone please explain to me the different types of signals and speed limits used on train tracks.
:If anyone would like to share their route building methods, please share. I would like to make this a really good looking trainz route, but also make it in a way where the fps will stay high. The graphics card that my computer will be using is a Superclocked GTX 550Ti and the processor is an AMD Phenom II X4 965 Black edition. PSU an Ultra LSP 750W. Hard drive has 1TB with 7200RPM and 64MB cache, and the RAM is 8GB DDR3 Vengeance. Hopefully this will all run smooth on the Major Tri State Area Project.
Now for the other portion of the Major Tri State Area Project, I will begin working at Grand Central Terminal and work my way up to Mott Haven Junction. Once that is done, I will begin working on Penn Station and make my way through the sunnyside yards working my way up to the Hellgate Bridge. The rest will be a suprise. I don't want to spoil everything.
. Below is steps on plan on taking to make this a great route.1. Study Transdem a bit more. I know that I have a DEM with a reference map stiched to it from the mapping servers built withing Transdem but I would like to build and construct this more efficiently. I would like to somehow plan this in a way like the Reading and Northern Route was planned.
2. Once I understand Transdem a bit more, acquire the portions of the route I need and somehow acquire some sort of good quality orthoimagery that I can use as a reference to place down the tracks, roads, and rivers.
3. Once the route is in Trainz 2010, I plan to build the routes a bit differently than I have been used to building. I plan on using the old Chunky Mesh track, such as the built in HP and MP tracks, or Greenery tracks. I would like to make this a great looking route but also keep it friendly with the frame rates. The JR tracks look the best but I don't know how they are on turnouts, portions pop into view as you drive the train, and it looks brand new. The Chunky Mesh track have that look as if they were used so many times on the rails. Overall, I think the Chunky Mesh tracks are a good all around track as far as looks and performance goes.
4. For scenery, I would like to know what would be better. Mcguriel's treez from the DLS, Pofig's treez, speed treez, or the trees from the greenery website. I have never used treez before but Pofig's treez look great. How are they as far as performance and fps goes. Which tree would run great in Trainz 2010. I think Pofig's treez are used on the 2012 Reading and Northern Route.
5. Which roads would look better, YARN or Aashto.
6. For the final part, can someone please explain to me the different types of signals and speed limits used on train tracks.
:If anyone would like to share their route building methods, please share. I would like to make this a really good looking trainz route, but also make it in a way where the fps will stay high. The graphics card that my computer will be using is a Superclocked GTX 550Ti and the processor is an AMD Phenom II X4 965 Black edition. PSU an Ultra LSP 750W. Hard drive has 1TB with 7200RPM and 64MB cache, and the RAM is 8GB DDR3 Vengeance. Hopefully this will all run smooth on the Major Tri State Area Project.
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Thanks. I would make this freeware because if it was not for all of the scenery objects or everything that the trainz community has made for free via dls and 3rd party websites, then this project would not be worked on. Thanks to all the content creators, I can make this project.
Would anyone know how to use the new USGS seamless server. I am trying to download maps by the way of counties. I would like to somehow get GEOtiffs for Hudson, New York, Bronx, Kings, Queens, Nassau, Suffolk, Essex, Bergen, Passaic, Orange, Westchester, Putnam, Dutchess, Fairfield, New Haven, and Litchfield counties. I am not sure how to do that in this new USGS seamless server. I did know how to navigate and download from the old seamless server but this new one is confusing.
Would anyone know how to use the new USGS seamless server. I am trying to download maps by the way of counties. I would like to somehow get GEOtiffs for Hudson, New York, Bronx, Kings, Queens, Nassau, Suffolk, Essex, Bergen, Passaic, Orange, Westchester, Putnam, Dutchess, Fairfield, New Haven, and Litchfield counties. I am not sure how to do that in this new USGS seamless server. I did know how to navigate and download from the old seamless server but this new one is confusing.
Andres_Nunez
Buffalonian
your using DEM if i'm correct? i that's the case be careful, DEM sometimes is not accurate. I have this DEM of the New Haven Line and some parts it's not very accurate. But i did not make the DEM so it does not matter. I just had to do alot of reference work since he DEM showed the lines split at wakefield when in fact the lines split at woodlawn. those are my thoughts. If you checked my post over at Trainz Commuter Rail i gave some of the Info on speed limits and signalling. If you need more like LIRR, NJT, Amtrak let me know.
Thanks Andres. Actually, the DEM that you have is a 1arc sec DEM that fishlipsatwork made which is available on the DLS. The DEM I am talking about is from the USGS seamless server. I am trying to gather data from the Seamless server but it is somewhat difficult because the website was updated. I think it is now called National map viewer. Would anyone know how to gather data from the new updated website that replaced the old seamless server. I would just like to download data for the following counties in New York and New Jersey first in 1/3 arc sec DEM's. Hudson County, Essex County, Bergen County, Pasaic, and Orange County.
Thanks. The project is put on hold for now because I am in the process of building my new computer that will handle trainz alot better instead of running it on a laptop. I have found a way to work with the DEM's a bit better so I am going organize everything in Transdem via counties instead of everything being a mix matched puzzle all over the place. Once I am done building my computer, I will be running this on trainz 2010 instead. I hope to be building this again soon. Same goes for my M8 in sketchup