Need help trying to match this TRS19 ballast type which I can't identify

[MSGSapper]

I usually don't have a problem matching track ballast in order to build matching ballast ground textures, but the following image of a TRS19 track ballast has so far proven almost impossible for me to find a seamless match too.

That ballast comes from <kuid2:661281:44099:9> TRS19 Trk Jarrah Procedural - Seasonal which I am using to upgrade my route to TRS19 standards. The actual ballast textures comes from <kuid2:661281:44102:15> TRS19 Trk Jarrah Mesh Lib. TRS19 does not provide a matching PBR ballast ground texture to go with that track, which is what I am trying to do.

I am not even sure what material is being used here. I have looked for crushed rock, crushed gravel and all types of ballast textures on the Internet but none seem to match this ballast type. Also because of the oil stains I cannot just use the track ballast texture as it is and I am not enough of an artist with GIMP to be able to remove it without changing the nature of the texture.

Does anyone know where the base texture which is being used here comes from and what type it is?

I have been working on this for some time now and am frankly stuck, which is unusual for me.

Bob

 

[davesnow]

Bob will this work?

 

[fant_autentico]

A little bit of Gimp.

 

[davesnow]

Mine looks more random, Nyah! Nyah!

 

[Jayco-man]

Dave you win.

 

[Dinorius_Redundicus]

Bob will this work?

I can still see 2 obvious vertical seams, at about 1/3 and 2/3 of the width. Some work with the Clone Stamp tool (a Photoshop term) would clear those up very quickly.

 

[fant_autentico]

[CITA = davesnow; 1733117] ¡El mío parece más aleatorio, Nyah! Nyah! [/CITAR]


Really, mine seems to have stolen the tracks.......: jeje

 

[MSGSapper]

Bob will this work?

Thanks Dave and fant_autentico but I had tried something similar to what you all did and I found that the seams are just too apparent when trying to make it a seamless repeatable texture.

Bob

 

[MSGSapper]

Because of the difficulty in matching the ballast in the <kuid2:661281:44099:9> TRS19 Trk Jarrah Procedural - Seasonal track, and I really don't like that ballast anyway as I don't feel it is typical of what I have seen in use, I am looking for a better TRS19 procedural track to use that is standard gauge for use in my efforts to upgrade my route to fully TRS19 standards in appearance.

At first I though I knew what standard gauge track looked like in the United States but have since found I was in the wrong, and there are a number of types in use with various fastening system over the last several decades. FYI my routes run from the 1950s forward.

The below listed tracks are the current TRS19 procedural tracks that all show in the config.txt file as being standard gauge. I am trying to decide which of them comes closest to a "typical" U.S. Class I railroad track. BTW I am not near any Class I railroads in my local area to go by.

Suggestions and comments anyone?

Here are the ones that come with TRS19 that I have looked at:

<kuid2:661281:44083:11> TRS19 Track 1 Procedural - Seasonal
<kuid2:661281:44169:3> TRS19 Trk Jarrah 2 - Procedural - Seasonal
<kuid2:661281:44177:3> TRS19 Trk Jarrah 3 - Procedural - Seasonal
<kuid2:661281:44214:1> TRS19 Trk Jarrah 4 - Procedural - Seasonal
<kuid2:661281:44223:1> TRS19 Trk Jarrah 5 - Procedural - Seasonal
<kuid2:661281:44275:1> TRS19 Trk Jarrah 6 - Procedural - Seasonal
<kuid2:661281:44294:1> TRS19 Trk Jarrah 7 - Procedural - Seasonal
<kuid2:661281:44099:9> TRS19 Trk Jarrah Procedural - Seasonal
<kuid2:506034:575634:2> UA track wooden #6-R65-2000 brown
<kuid2:506034:575635:2> UA track wooden #7-R65-2000 gray
<kuid2:506034:582678:5> JR US track #1-132 (wide ballast)

Sources of information:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard-gauge_railway

and

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railroad_tie

and

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rail_fastening_system

Bob

 

[davesnow]

--- the seams are just too apparent when trying to make it a seamless repeatable texture.

Bob

Yeah but who's gonna notice!! (besides you)

 

[MSGSapper]

I may have answered my own question on the available TRS19 procedural rail types.

All of the TRS19 Trk Jarrah track types appear to use Bull Head rails based on a close look at the cross section of the rail in Surveyor. This type rail is only used in the UK based on the information I extracted on this subject below:

The following use the Flat Bottom Rail with rail spike with base plate used commonly in the U.S.

<kuid2:506034:575635:2> UA track wooden #7-R65-2000 gray
<kuid2:506034:535051:2> UA track concrete #4-R65-2000 no ballast
<kuid2:506034:957523:3> UA track concrete #1-R65-2000 gray
<kuid2:506034:535049:2> UA track concrete #2-R65-2000 brown
<kuid2:506034:575634:2> UA track wooden #6-R65-2000 brown
<kuid2:506034:535050:2> UA track concrete #3-R65-2000 brown dirt
<kuid2:506034:535052:2> UA track concrete #4-R65 rails only

<kuid2:506034:4357297:5> JR US track #3-132 (narrow ballast)
<kuid2:506034:578257:9> JR US track #1-132 (narrow ballast)
<kuid2:506034:582678:5> JR US track #1-132 (wide ballast)
<kuid2:506034:578260:11> JR US track #1-132 rust (narrow ballast)
<kuid2:506034:578523:7> JR US track #1-100 new (narrow ballast)
<kuid2:506034:4357296:5> JR US track #2-132 (narrow ballast)
<kuid2:506034:4357298:5> JR US track #4-132 (narrow ballast)

One advantage of the UA and JR tracks are that they come with separate build 4.6 ballast textures as follows:

<kuid2:506034:795625:2> UA track ballast brown
<kuid2:506034:795624:2> UA track ballast gray
<kuid2:506034:7880073:6> JR US track ballast

A pretty limited selection of modern era TRS19 standard gauge procedural track to choose from for U.S. routes!

Bob