Narrow gauge screenshots
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Normhart,
An electric battery loco?????
Where in the heck do find these items, amazing, never heard of this, another Gem of a find...........
Thanks for sharing with us........
The Electric Battery Loco is a creation by narrowgauge for his Chicago Tunnel Company Railroad. http://narrowgaugetrainz.com/ctc.html
The rest of the CTC locomotives (in rear) used trolley poles. I'm not sure what the bucket of sand was for, presumably to put out flaming engineers or other spark caused fires. The engineer is a scenery object.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Tunnel_Company
I'm almost sure someone somewhere tried using the battery concept elsewhere.
It is the access to over a decade of international creative effort by hundreds of thousands of artists that makes Trainz unique in my view. If N3V begins to crop that access in TRS2019 I'll probably stay in TANE since almost everything I've accumulated still works in it.
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blueodessey
Well-known member
T:ANE is my game and I plan on sticking with it!
Thank you for enlightenment, I went to the site and read about their project and I had forgotten that I had read about the Real one from the 1900's and didn't connect the dots till you put your link up for us........It truly is a remarkable underground Railroad that could and did for many, many years at the behest of adversity above.......
As per your collection and T:ANE,
Coming from TS-12 and Trainz Driver 2 for Ipad, I felt it was one heck of a jump, the rewards in T:ANE, I could make much larger Routes in magnitude, that would run better within larger Computer Memory footprints. In my case 16Megs of RAM in laptop. Downside, and the one I severely regret, I bought the Integrated Video on Motherboard (common build for consumer) and it will be my last:'(. Next round is going NVidia in Laptop, nothing less, as the Screen Jitter is always there, albeit, I run as much Vanilla memory configuration in Graphics sense as I can.
The more serious downside, 1500 hundred of my accumulated assets had issues, and in several cases, it was the end of the road, as I'm not skilled in Asset Creation, nor do I want to be......
But for me, at this stage of the game, I plan to stay in T:ANE at least for 2 more years. Until I see that 2019 is grown up enough for me to make the change.
As for uniqueness,
I have played with Steam Games and Microsoft Rail Sim, but once I came to Trainz, even though it was only Ipad, with Limited Rolling Stock, Routes, Memory and HD space Etc, I initially was sold on the Game, as it was perfect when I did my business Travels.
If nothing else, T:ANE has forced me to learn about error corrections. Thank goodness for ASSET-X it is a true God Send for fixing the Assets I can.........Great info as always Normhart.........!
The Electric Battery Loco is a creation by narrowgauge for his Chicago Tunnel Company Railroad. http://narrowgaugetrainz.com/ctc.html
The rest of the CTC locomotives (in rear) used trolley poles. I'm not sure what the bucket of sand was for, presumably to put out flaming engineers or other spark caused fires. The engineer is a scenery object.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Tunnel_Company
I'm almost sure someone somewhere tried using the battery concept elsewhere.
It is the access to over a decade of international creative effort by hundreds of thousands of artists that makes Trainz unique in my view. If N3V begins to crop that access in TRS2019 I'll probably stay in TANE since almost everything I've accumulated still works in it.
Thank you for enlightenment, I went to the site and read about their project and I had forgotten that I had read about the Real one from the 1900's and didn't connect the dots till you put your link up for us........It truly is a remarkable underground Railroad that could and did for many, many years at the behest of adversity above.......As per your collection and T:ANE,
Coming from TS-12 and Trainz Driver 2 for Ipad, I felt it was one heck of a jump, the rewards in T:ANE, I could make much larger Routes in magnitude, that would run better within larger Computer Memory footprints. In my case 16Megs of RAM in laptop. Downside, and the one I severely regret, I bought the Integrated Video on Motherboard (common build for consumer) and it will be my last:'(. Next round is going NVidia in Laptop, nothing less, as the Screen Jitter is always there, albeit, I run as much Vanilla memory configuration in Graphics sense as I can.
The more serious downside, 1500 hundred of my accumulated assets had issues, and in several cases, it was the end of the road, as I'm not skilled in Asset Creation, nor do I want to be......But for me, at this stage of the game, I plan to stay in T:ANE at least for 2 more years. Until I see that 2019 is grown up enough for me to make the change.
As for uniqueness,
I have played with Steam Games and Microsoft Rail Sim, but once I came to Trainz, even though it was only Ipad, with Limited Rolling Stock, Routes, Memory and HD space Etc, I initially was sold on the Game, as it was perfect when I did my business Travels.
If nothing else, T:ANE has forced me to learn about error corrections. Thank goodness for ASSET-X it is a true God Send for fixing the Assets I can.........Great info as always Normhart.........!Sure thing Tom, I fiddled with it a bit but honestly underground stuff is not really my cup of tea. shortline2 did some nice mine stuff, if you like underground stuff, I'm pretty sure it is all on the DLS.
@Blue that is why I don't buy laptops. Up till a few years ago I built my own desktops but I got behind the technical curve and it became easier and cheaper to buy last years cutting edge gaming system every three or four years. The system I'm on ought to be good until TRS2019 is semi stable.
narrowgauge
92 year oldTrainz veteran
Norm
It is good to see our old stuff that you dug out.
We did all the work on the CTC and then decided it was too off-beat, no-one would want to sit in a tunnel with no changes in scenery. If I went back to it I would add some cable and pipes to the tunnel walls. No good to try procedural track, the curves are too tight. We cheated a bit, all the crossings were made to lock to the grid which mimicked the Chicago street arrangement. All curves are 10 metre radius to fit within the grid squares. At the time, I think that we were the first to use 3-way junctions in Trainz.
I suggest that it is worth downloading to just explore it. We supplied a very wide selection of loads for deliveries with above ground warehouses with lifts for raising wagons (no loco) with the battery loco to move things around in the store. Interestingly, AI handles the system very well so the possibilities for a major session are there just to watch the trains running which is easy 'cos all the tunnels are inside out, you can see inside from the outside but in the tunnel all you see is tunnel. If you reverse direction with a loco, you have to change the pickup round which is a pretty tight fit in the tunnel.
The sand in the bucket is to be put on slippery rails. Nothing fancy in those days.
Peter
It is good to see our old stuff that you dug out.
We did all the work on the CTC and then decided it was too off-beat, no-one would want to sit in a tunnel with no changes in scenery. If I went back to it I would add some cable and pipes to the tunnel walls. No good to try procedural track, the curves are too tight. We cheated a bit, all the crossings were made to lock to the grid which mimicked the Chicago street arrangement. All curves are 10 metre radius to fit within the grid squares. At the time, I think that we were the first to use 3-way junctions in Trainz.
I suggest that it is worth downloading to just explore it. We supplied a very wide selection of loads for deliveries with above ground warehouses with lifts for raising wagons (no loco) with the battery loco to move things around in the store. Interestingly, AI handles the system very well so the possibilities for a major session are there just to watch the trains running which is easy 'cos all the tunnels are inside out, you can see inside from the outside but in the tunnel all you see is tunnel. If you reverse direction with a loco, you have to change the pickup round which is a pretty tight fit in the tunnel.
The sand in the bucket is to be put on slippery rails. Nothing fancy in those days.
Peter
All this talk about peat made me think that my 750mm central European railroad needs some period-correct peat wagons. The best I managed was an edit of an old 2 axel polish W-series coal wagon.
Was aiming at something like those:
https://youtu.be/bhNWLY5N8Uc?t=426
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blueodessey
Well-known member
Original Desktops in the day.
:wave: Thanks Normhart, Funny you say that, my very first computer back in the day was 386SX, 1/4 stick of memory, I think a 10 meg hard drive that huge noisy, and dedicated video card with almost no memory on it in today's terms, I think it was 256K.
Dos 2.0, there was no windows back then.
And if you wanted a menu system, my computer had the "Dos Command Line" you had to buy the software and then create the links to your programs to launch the programs, via your own Batch files. And a whopping 640 Ram of Dos memory too boot.
I had surgery at the time to fix a torn muscle, and with 6-8 weeks of recovery time, I decided since I would be laid up for extended period of time, why not buy a brand new computer and learn how to work on one. Best decision I ever made back then, it opened so many doors and my friends thought I was out of my mind.
I can't remember what Laptops cost in 1986? But I do remember it was business professionals and others that had to have them for their jobs and I couldn't afford one, let alone justify buying one at that time! But I did really like my desktop computer, because of the Cool Computer Games that were out there to play with. And it seemed to me, just as you say, they played better on my Desktop Computer than on some the large heavy laptops back in the day.
With Dos memory limit and no overhead high memory, you couldn't access until later, via special memory manager, boy was that fun, trying make Vanilla Autoexec.bat and Config.sys files to work with Dos Games, it was like oil and vinegar, some of the games wouldn't mix or play well with Dos.........:'(
And my second computer after the 286SX demise, I started building my own to get exactly what I wanted, like you say, it got cheaper to buy prefab computers for me too, and then I would only occasionally build them between working long hours and 2 jobs at the time, just not enough time to do the research to keep up with technology as well.
At the end of it all, I agree with you, the Desktop is the best for playing games unless you have lots of spare cash for a very high Laptop, with oodles of dedicated, not shared on the MOB Video Card.
My next system will definitely be a Desktop for sure.......It will have JET Flight assisted PACKS for takeoff!!! LOL........:hehe:
@Blue that is why I don't buy laptops. Up till a few years ago I built my own desktops but I got behind the technical curve and it became easier and cheaper to buy last years cutting edge gaming system every three or four years. The system I'm on ought to be good until TRS2019 is semi stable.
:wave: Thanks Normhart, Funny you say that, my very first computer back in the day was 386SX, 1/4 stick of memory, I think a 10 meg hard drive that huge noisy, and dedicated video card with almost no memory on it in today's terms, I think it was 256K.
Dos 2.0, there was no windows back then.
And if you wanted a menu system, my computer had the "Dos Command Line" you had to buy the software and then create the links to your programs to launch the programs, via your own Batch files. And a whopping 640 Ram of Dos memory too boot.
I had surgery at the time to fix a torn muscle, and with 6-8 weeks of recovery time, I decided since I would be laid up for extended period of time, why not buy a brand new computer and learn how to work on one. Best decision I ever made back then, it opened so many doors and my friends thought I was out of my mind.
I can't remember what Laptops cost in 1986? But I do remember it was business professionals and others that had to have them for their jobs and I couldn't afford one, let alone justify buying one at that time! But I did really like my desktop computer, because of the Cool Computer Games that were out there to play with. And it seemed to me, just as you say, they played better on my Desktop Computer than on some the large heavy laptops back in the day.
With Dos memory limit and no overhead high memory, you couldn't access until later, via special memory manager, boy was that fun, trying make Vanilla Autoexec.bat and Config.sys files to work with Dos Games, it was like oil and vinegar, some of the games wouldn't mix or play well with Dos.........:'(
And my second computer after the 286SX demise, I started building my own to get exactly what I wanted, like you say, it got cheaper to buy prefab computers for me too, and then I would only occasionally build them between working long hours and 2 jobs at the time, just not enough time to do the research to keep up with technology as well.
At the end of it all, I agree with you, the Desktop is the best for playing games unless you have lots of spare cash for a very high Laptop, with oodles of dedicated, not shared on the MOB Video Card.
My next system will definitely be a Desktop for sure.......It will have JET Flight assisted PACKS for takeoff!!! LOL........:hehe:I am quite sure that in Europe there was no peat industry using 750mm tracks. At best 600mm and for this size there is a wagon:
MV_Feldbahn_Torflore_600mm <KUID2:206616:1374:2>
Go to the DLS and search under 'Description' for 'Torf' and you will find quite aq lot of assets I made for this kind of industry...
mick1960!
Not sure if you saw my screenies of your stuff https://forums.auran.com/trainz/showthread.php?1131-Narrow-gauge-screenshots&p=1674989#post1674989 Thanks for all your goodies.
Will do!
That is correct for the Polish industry, the peat "mines" in Poland at least are served by 600mm track.
750mm and standard gauge nevertheless also transported peat (though not directly from the mines).
I know a peat mine in Iceland was served by 850mm. 750mm in European Russia is ubiquitous and also serves peat mines. Example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxXX89sbjfY
NOTE: I do not want to start a forum war about the whole: "Does Russia count as Europe" thing...
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If the ownership of the track and the land under it reverted to local administration or state, this disrepair wouldn't be surprising.
Given that it's a narrow gauge 2-4-4-2, I'd guess it's a reskin of Paulz Trainz's narrow gauge 2-4-4-2.
Nope #390 is a repaint by klinger of the 30in Mallet V2 made by David111767 and is available at http://30ng.webs.com/ links are problematic and I've discussed how to fix the links in several threads. This is the fixed link for the download page; http://30ng.webs.com/downloads.htm.
This site has a vast collection of the very best of 30in Narrow Gauge stuff.
David111767 30in on left and PaulzTrainz 36in on right.
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