Meadville PA route W.I.P.

[deadpoolmx55]

this route is pretty close to my heart, i grew up in this area most of my family worked for erie/erie lackawanna/ conrail/ ns in meadville so i figured id make a meadville to greenville route including the b&le line to, id apreaciate some help or some advice, but ive been working on the NS/ wnyp yard in meadville for a couple of months now and im starting to lay track to saegertown and then ill start texturing to greenville but heres some screenies of the meadville yard and the bridge is not the right type but ill keep looking for the right type

 

[Euphod]

A bit too limited in the screens to comment just yet, but I'll revisit as you progress. Good luck to you!

 

[deadpoolmx55]

thank you ill need it!

 

[deadpoolmx55]

heres the area my previous screenshots are of, that pic is from august when the pacific limited came to town

 

[deadpoolmx55]

compared to the route im creating

 

[octls2]

Cool

Looks like your off to a good start man.

May I make a suggestion for the bridge and yard tower/crew room? I may be wrong but I've never seen a girder bridge like the route 322 bridge in trainz. you may want to give YARN 4 lane bridge a try. <kuid2:124017:26035:1> and the support <kuid2:124017:26042:1> . You may want to lower it a tad bit to about 25' - 28' off the rail head. See photo: Here

For the yard tower you might want to try one of these <kuid:82763:1138> and <kuid2:138326:64001:2> you might be able to "kit-bash" something together. gfisher has some great Erie stuff over at USLW. Again I haven't seen anything close to the ex-Erie tower yet in trainz. Photo: Here

Just a suggestion though.. Looking good so far man, Keep up the great work and let me know if you need any info.

Edit: I see you found some stuff! lol...

 

[deadpoolmx55]

no unfortunatly i wasnt able to take pics while i was there, phone was broken but i found this on the net, and posted it, do you know were i can find the E"s for trainz? and ill take a look at uslw, see what they have thanks, edit nice shots, i have been seeing a couple union pacific locos sitting down in the yard a lot lol. thanks again your right the bridge is to high and yeah your right, but that tower in the screen shot is the closest i could get

 

[octls2]

no unfortunatly i wasnt able to take pics while i was there, phone was broken but i found this on the net, and posted it, do you know were i can find the E"s for trainz? and ill take a look at uslw, see what they have thanks

Yeah, There's really no high quality E's in trainz yet, but josheh's aren't to bad. Give his username a search on DLS.

 

[deadpoolmx55]

thank you again for your help, if you have more pics of meadville yard id love to use them as a reference, since i do live in pitt its hard to get up there to see my parents often so i need as much help as i can get

 

[octls2]

Yup, No problem. (Anything for a fellow Pennsylvanian) Yeah I'll dig around in my three HD's and find some stuff to "hook you up". If you want, send me a pm with your e-mail addy (that way I don;t have to host them anywhere).

 

[mattm]

Comparing those last two shots, I can say I'd like to see more of this. I thought I was looking at another photo, with that second shot. Very nice. Matt.

 

[deadpoolmx55]

thank you mattm

 

[slabay]

Yeah, There's really no high quality E's in trainz yet, but josheh's aren't to bad. Give his username a search on DLS.

I believe N8PHU was planning on doing some E's since the PSD's are floating around for them now (but I think those are the JoshEH ones). He's probably pretty buried on his Alco project right now, though.

Keep up the good work! You've got quite the rendering of the photo done. I used Maddie's YARN stuff quite a bit.... streadway has been updating them though and he's done a great job with it. Search for YARNish for the updated stuff.

---Scott

 

[deadpoolmx55]

more screenies! criticism welcomed

 

[octls2]

Ahh.. Comming along nicely jcalmx55! I can already tell where each screen shot is located. Nice work. Hope you weren't over whelmed by all the pics I sent.

 

[mattm]

Not too much to criticize in those shots; probably the biggest issue is a bit too much blank grid, but that's just me.

Just a tip, press CTRL+H; it turns of the junction overlays, so you don't see them until you pass your mouse over them. Makes a difference to the quality of the screenies.

Matt.

 

[deadpoolmx55]

thanks! im trying to get it as accurate as possible, heres some new pics with old locos lol, i think in the 60/70s they were just tearing the roundhouse out by what is now 84 lumber and there was a lot more track in meadville as my gandpa tells me

heres a odd lash up located were my route is based off, considering its owned by NS, the pic was taken by me last year

 

[octls2]

I see my Erie unit found it's way home. I like it. The Track configuration looks spot on man.

Not too much to criticize in those shots; probably the biggest issue is a bit too much blank grid, but that's just me.Matt.

Normally I'd agree, but remember this is a WIP. So your going to have a few grid shots here and there. We have to give him some time to work.

 

[deadpoolmx55]

I see my Erie unit found it's way home. I like it. The Track configuration looks spot on man.



Normally I'd agree, but remember this is a WIP. So your going to have a few grid shots here and there. We have to give him some time to work.

Thanks! I appreciate it!