Narrow gauge screenshots
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Okay sir , thanks a lot :wave:
narrowgauge
92 year oldTrainz veteran
Referring to Northbay County, I must correct one thing. The initial route that is attributed to me was produced by a team of talented people. I became project leader part way through and that is when my username became attached, as someone had to be named as the 'creator' as required by Auran and the DLS. I have worked with it to move it though several builds but it is not 'my' route.
Peter <narrowgauge>
Peter <narrowgauge>
Experiments with tourist/crew trains.
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Very odd things going on with this, the passenger station shown in the first shot was not in either of the TS12 versions I have. I thought to check the TS10 version due to the floating stuff at that location and discovered the station. Wasn't difficult to add but it makes me wonder what else is missing from the route and sessions.
@ Peter, I looked for a readme with the credits but could not find any in the TS12, TS10, nor the TS2006 versions. It would be nice to list the good folks who put this route together if you wish.
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Very odd things going on with this, the passenger station shown in the first shot was not in either of the TS12 versions I have. I thought to check the TS10 version due to the floating stuff at that location and discovered the station. Wasn't difficult to add but it makes me wonder what else is missing from the route and sessions.
@ Peter, I looked for a readme with the credits but could not find any in the TS12, TS10, nor the TS2006 versions. It would be nice to list the good folks who put this route together if you wish.
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Vielen Dank Pascallok, I did not think they used flying benches here in the US but this morning I found this http://www.pacificng.com/imglib/main.php?g2_itemId=5685 Not only on US rails but made in Milwaukee!
I'm still looking for the right rolling stock for miners, loggers, and tourists.
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I'm still looking for the right rolling stock for miners, loggers, and tourists.
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That was a rebuild out of a Milwaukee diesel switcher previously owned by the Westside Lumber Company.
My goodness, I was wondering why the photo was in the locomotive section, not only a flying bench but a powered flying bench! I lived within 10 miles of Roaring Camp and Big Trees RR and never had time to go there so I never saw this thing.
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I've gotten all five original sessions working in TANE now. Other than a couple of minor problems it was easy peasy. I'm very impressed with how well this route, sessions, and assets have withstood the test of time. Pretty darn awesome!
Last I heard it doesn't get used much anymore. It had a small capacity of about 10 people and they decided it is just as easy to use one of the diesel switchers with one car behind it giving them about a 40 person capacity. I don't know if that is true, but that is what I was told by an employee there.
Kegg_Works
New member
Ah~ Northbay County!! There's a lot of nostalgia I have for that route, though I have yet to run on the TRS12 version yet.
Well earlier in this thread I posted some screenshots of one of the many routes I am working on. Which was a very small 30" gauge line I'm calling Pueblo Creek at the moment. However the primary route I'm building is a recreation of a rather 3' gauge railway in central Arizona, the United Verde & Pacific Railway! It's a 3-foot gauge copper hauler, hauling smelted copper from the smelter in Jerome, AZ to an interchange with a standard gauge railroad, called the Santa Fe Prescott & Phoenix RR (Later AT&SF), 26 miles tot he east at Jerome Junction. (Today Chino Valley, AZ)
Below are a few shots of the route's progress and please keep in mind that it's a Work In Progress, so there's no texturing yet and some rough building placements. First up is a view of the Jerome Jct. yards looking south.
The next is a scene based on an old photo from the early days of the UV&P's operation with one of their first 2-6-0 Moguls.
When I started laying track I originally used brown track, but have since replaced all of it with weathered tan track made by Pencil42. This is a view of the Jerome Jct. Wye and according to a Sandborn map a three stall roundhouse was located at the end of the wye tail with a 3-way switch. However based on one photo it looks like a 4-stall roundhouse was in place, but there never was a turn table here.
The view is looking east and not far from the eastern leg of the wye is East siding. It was 73 feet long.
Despite not having any textures down yet you can still get the feel of high desert railroading, don't you think? Right at the two-mile marker is Two Mile Spur. There are some hints that this spur was used for loading and offloading cattle, though most historians speculate that it was mostly used as a RIP track.
The first halve of the UV&P is almost dead strait with less than a handful of curves for 13 miles! This next shot is just before reaching a crossing known as Davis. A small station was here and a wagon grade crossing. It was said a Chinese chef lived near there and had a famous stew! Anyway, for many miles is flat and desolate. Skipping over most of that here we see the line starting to skirt the edges of the mountains.
Just past Davis is more strait track and further glimpses of the desert mountains.
Next is Russell, the halfway point of the line and here was a siding and a spur, used as another RIP track. (yet to be placed) Russell was a daily meeting place for East and Westbound trains. However from this moment on there would be hardly any strait track from here on out as the line traverses the serrated slopes of Woodchute Mountain.
And here the twisting and winding begins! This is no road for 4-4-0s or even 2-8-0s as the curves are just too sharp! The UV&P exclusively used specially built 2-6-0 Mogul types with short wheelbases to allow them to work their way along this unforgiving line.
To Be Continued...
Well earlier in this thread I posted some screenshots of one of the many routes I am working on. Which was a very small 30" gauge line I'm calling Pueblo Creek at the moment. However the primary route I'm building is a recreation of a rather 3' gauge railway in central Arizona, the United Verde & Pacific Railway! It's a 3-foot gauge copper hauler, hauling smelted copper from the smelter in Jerome, AZ to an interchange with a standard gauge railroad, called the Santa Fe Prescott & Phoenix RR (Later AT&SF), 26 miles tot he east at Jerome Junction. (Today Chino Valley, AZ)
Below are a few shots of the route's progress and please keep in mind that it's a Work In Progress, so there's no texturing yet and some rough building placements. First up is a view of the Jerome Jct. yards looking south.
The next is a scene based on an old photo from the early days of the UV&P's operation with one of their first 2-6-0 Moguls.
When I started laying track I originally used brown track, but have since replaced all of it with weathered tan track made by Pencil42. This is a view of the Jerome Jct. Wye and according to a Sandborn map a three stall roundhouse was located at the end of the wye tail with a 3-way switch. However based on one photo it looks like a 4-stall roundhouse was in place, but there never was a turn table here.
The view is looking east and not far from the eastern leg of the wye is East siding. It was 73 feet long.
Despite not having any textures down yet you can still get the feel of high desert railroading, don't you think? Right at the two-mile marker is Two Mile Spur. There are some hints that this spur was used for loading and offloading cattle, though most historians speculate that it was mostly used as a RIP track.
The first halve of the UV&P is almost dead strait with less than a handful of curves for 13 miles! This next shot is just before reaching a crossing known as Davis. A small station was here and a wagon grade crossing. It was said a Chinese chef lived near there and had a famous stew! Anyway, for many miles is flat and desolate. Skipping over most of that here we see the line starting to skirt the edges of the mountains.
Just past Davis is more strait track and further glimpses of the desert mountains.
Next is Russell, the halfway point of the line and here was a siding and a spur, used as another RIP track. (yet to be placed) Russell was a daily meeting place for East and Westbound trains. However from this moment on there would be hardly any strait track from here on out as the line traverses the serrated slopes of Woodchute Mountain.
And here the twisting and winding begins! This is no road for 4-4-0s or even 2-8-0s as the curves are just too sharp! The UV&P exclusively used specially built 2-6-0 Mogul types with short wheelbases to allow them to work their way along this unforgiving line.
To Be Continued...
Kegg_Works
New member
Next we come to Bridge No. 1, which later on would be removed and the grade relocated further back, following the contours of the landscape. I plan on making three variations of the route, the first being 1895-1900, 1900-1920, 1920/21. This should cover all the major changes in the route right up till abandonment.
And here we have one more view of the line, but it is from a distance looking south-ish towards Woodchute Mt. As you can see the slopes are pretty unforgiving and the line was built somewhat on the cheap. Not in quality, but avoiding any major earthworks as much as possible. So there were no tunnels and only a few cuts here and there. And as crazy as I'm sure the route looks already it only gets worse from here!
ONLY engines with short wheel bases are capable of handling this line and absolutely NOTHING larger than a 2-6-0 can be used on this route. I'm sure seeing some 4-4-0s double head would look grate, but they'd jump the track not far out of Russell, unfortunately. :'(
I've actually graded most of the route now, about 75% of it give or take. I hope that you guys like the line so far and I'll try and grab some more action shots next time.
And here we have one more view of the line, but it is from a distance looking south-ish towards Woodchute Mt. As you can see the slopes are pretty unforgiving and the line was built somewhat on the cheap. Not in quality, but avoiding any major earthworks as much as possible. So there were no tunnels and only a few cuts here and there. And as crazy as I'm sure the route looks already it only gets worse from here!
ONLY engines with short wheel bases are capable of handling this line and absolutely NOTHING larger than a 2-6-0 can be used on this route. I'm sure seeing some 4-4-0s double head would look grate, but they'd jump the track not far out of Russell, unfortunately. :'(
I've actually graded most of the route now, about 75% of it give or take. I hope that you guys like the line so far and I'll try and grab some more action shots next time.
MeowRailroad
CKRail
That's very interesting. I can definitely imagine that as a desert, even without textures.
Really lovely KW! An interesting little rail line, they had a total of 12 locomotives, 11 2-6-0s (all bought new, a couple were replacements) and 1 standard gauge 3 truck Shay (also bought new, apparently used for switching in Jerome).
By 1906 the Westside Lumber Company had 7 locomotives, 150 logging cars, and one passenger car.
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By 1906 the Westside Lumber Company had 7 locomotives, 150 logging cars, and one passenger car.
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Kegg_Works
New member
Really lovely KW! An interesting little rail line, they had a total of 12 locomotives, 11 2-6-0s (all bought new, a couple were replacements) and 1 standard gauge 3 truck Shay (also bought new, apparently used for switching in Jerome).
By 1906 the Westside Lumber Company had 7 locomotives, 150 logging cars, and one passenger car.
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Hah!! It's nice to know that there are others who know of the UV&P!! Although the shay was rostered, it was never actually delivered. And it was a narrow gauge shay, it was order and never delivered. As to why is uncertain, bur the engine wad regauged and sold to the Potlatch Lumber Co.
I'm hoping a friend of mine will finish making a model of the unique Moguls used on the UV&P so I can really recreate scenes from along the line. Now if only someone could make some models of the SFP&P's awesome looking Ten-Wheelers!
It is slugsmasher's Westside Sampler route and is available from his website.
Norm, I hate to nitpick but on the Westside, all "special" cars, aka not log cars and cabooses (cabeese?) would go on the front end of the train next to the locomotive to make it easier to spot them on sidings in the camps.
I admit I had to look the UV&P in my Encyclopedia of Western Railroads, but it certainly will make a great short line Route!
Correct that is slugsmasher's Westside sampler, nitpick away I almost always put passenger cars to the rear to avoid the smoke and smuts. The shots above were in TS12, since then I've gotten it into TANE:
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Correct that is slugsmasher's Westside sampler, nitpick away I almost always put passenger cars to the rear to avoid the smoke and smuts. The shots above were in TS12, since then I've gotten it into TANE:
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