Moon River 36inch NG, some previews

[Jananton]

Hello All,

Following some shots from the Moon River NG fictional route:

Climbing out of Moon Valley

View from the cab

Entering Snake Canyon passing track

Passenger pickup at Moon River Station

Climb along the river to sw-passage

Crossing the bridge to sw-passage

On an overall note, there will be some more foliage in the end, but since my PC is not that state of the art for today's standards, that will be done when all else is finished...

Greetings from sunny Amsterdam,

Jan

 

[billm001]

Great job!

Keep the screenies coming!

 

[Jananton]

Great job!

Keep the screenies coming!

Thanks, It's growing slowly but steadilly

Early morning at Cargill Coal

Ready to go at Elanor Flats

Pickup empty log cars at Elanor Flats (will be a little less flat in the future)

Depart from Bean's Meadow Y

Climbing the west side of Moon Valley

On Eagles Pass passing track

Arrival at Mears Prospect

Well, there's more to see, but I noticed arranging these kind of posts as well as taking the shots the way I like takes more time than expected and there's still much to do in the Moon River area.
So much to do, and so little time...:hehe:

Greetings from rainy Amsterdam,

Jan

 

[Pencil42]

Beautiful route!

 

[Prowler901]

It's looking great Jan. Keep us posted on your progress

 

[Jananton]

Thanks guys.
First some more landscaping and enginering and then some more shots.

Greetings from rainy Amsterdam,

Jan

 

[Railtrackdelay]

I don't mean any offence to you or Prowler when I type this, but I think it would be a better idea to use Elvenor's or bendorsey's trestles for this route as both are packaged into cdps and on the DLS.

 

[tdstead]

Great Route

looks so nice, have to ask what version it is, lots of people forget to mention it.

With the sky the way it is the Cargill mine looks like its in a cave, nice effect.

Keep the screenshots comming

Tom

 

[Jananton]

I don't mean any offence to you or Prowler when I type this, but I think it would be a better idea to use Elvenor's or bendorsey's trestles for this route as both are packaged into cdps and on the DLS.

None taken, but I can assure you they're available from one of the usual sites dedicated to 36inch NG. Maybe Sirgibby, I'll have to look.
The route will be released to the community, but that will take some time since, apart that I'm busy with it still, there are some items used that are either cloned by me where I need permission for by the original authors, or those I'm trying to create myself. Here's an example (shown before in the Gmax and other 3D packages thread) made in blender

The Moon River (Saw)Mill

and the lumber pickup at the other side

I'm not yet completely satisfied with it though, so as I said before in another post, lots to do still.

looks so nice, have to ask what version it is, lots of people forget to mention it.

It's TRS2006 + SP1, that's the only version of trainz I have...

Greetings from nighttime Amsterdam,

Jan

 

[slugsmasher]

Looks great. I like the open spaces, a lot like in the rockies.

 

[Jananton]

Looks great. I like the open spaces, a lot like in the rockies.

Thanks, the whole idea is to let the driver go through gradually changing types of terrain en route, so one gets the illusion of travel and going somewhere. The longest stretch is approx. 25 minutes at 20mph at the moment.

Greetings from sunny Amsterdam,

Jan

 

[Jananton]

Some more shots from Moon River NG

Nearing the summit on Eagles Pass

Crossing Eagles Pass

Leaving empty coal cars at Mears Prospect

Leaving Bean's Meadow for Moon River

Riding along the river

Arrived at Moon River Station

And a shot from the other side

Greetings from Rainy Amsterdam,

Jan

 

[Jananton]

Now some mory idylic pictures from a stroll round Elanor Flats (Moon River NG)

Greetings from rainy Amsterdam,

Jan

 

[Prowler901]

Beautiful work Jan. Looks to be an interesting route.

Todd

 

[Jananton]

Hello Todd,

Beautiful work Jan. Looks to be an interesting route.

Todd

Thanks for your kind words, work on the railroad is progessing steadily, but there's a part that has puzzled me lately.
I had intended to let the main source for logging be situated in the Moon Valley with a 2ft very small local railroad and using slugsmashers Dry sort yard to transfer the logs from that to the main 3ft Moon River RR for transport to the Mill in Moon River. However it seems logging cars for 2ft aren't available at all. I cloned a 36inch car from slugsmasher capable for 16ft logs and put 2ft bogeys under it and that does work, but this made me wondering if 2ft maybe isn't strong enough for logging operations in real life... If it's revealed that this is the reason for the lack of 2ft logging cars then I have to rethink that part.

Ah, the budding thoughts of a railway engineer in spé...:hehe:

Greetings from overcast Amsterdam,

Jan

 

[Jananton]

So you wanna be a gold digger?

Well, one part of Moon River hasn't been shown yet, and that's the part with the (gold) Ore Mine Pembroke near Mears Prospect. It's under construction, the mine that is, so here a first impression of the main building.

This will be the nonfunctional part. Allthough it might feature an animated lift. The idea is to create an industry active orebin building for loading ore cars and a connecting transport spline between the two, so placement can be adjusted to circumstance and terrain elevation. An additional coal and lumber drop off location or locations could be added too later on.

Greetings from nighttime Amsterdam,

Jan

 

[gary6204]

for logging, why not use 30ng?

 

[simulatortrain]

Whoa! This is amazing! Great work!

 

[skol587]

love the mine

 

[Jananton]

Hi Guys,

Interesting this thread suddenly got some attention since february.:hehe:
For your information and others interested, I'm still on and off working on this one and it will be released when I'm satisfied with it. Maybe it's the very high quality of shots that can be seen here on this forum, that I sometimes think this isn't up to the standard yet that people seem to expect these days.

love the mine

That is one of the stumbling blocks. The main building wasn't a problem, but I'm still shuffling with the measurements for the orebin dumping facility. As said it's a fictional route, so so are these kind of buildings.:hehe:

@simulatortrain. Thanks for the thumbs up, as said it will be released, but I need to contact andi06 for instance first, because I cloned one of his station types to cater for western people to get the passenger functionality for those beautifull cars from bendorsey.

@gary6204: Did that allready.:hehe: There's one snag though. I'm a very big fan of using cab mode in driver, and sadly many very nice creations of the steam era in 30inch don't behave as steam engines. I think that's a real drawback to be honest.

Greetings from nighttime Amsterdam,

Jan