NEW ZEALAND OTAGO CENTRAL RAILWAY

[cvkiwi]

Hi everyone now I know that there is a lot of you that has come over To my little country and have had a good time here so I say thank you for comeing to visit and I hope you have all had fun

Some of you might have been on this great railway and yes I too have been for a ride on it

So I want to recreate this Railway on trains
But sadly I do not posess the gift and the wisdom on how to build this so is there any tool I can use that well do what I need to get this projest up and running
Now I need to say I have a limited computer know how so I am going to need alot of help
Ever since I went on this ride this project has been bugging me to do for a while.
Please help
THANK YOu


I have made a start

Well thats it for now
chris sullivan

 

[pfx]

Your best bet would be to use TransDEM. It will create the terrain for you and you can overlay maps on that. TransDEM does the whole shebang and exports it all into Trainz.

It's around 19 quid so that makes it what, about 40 bucks to you? Holy moses, that exchange rate is crap. I was getting 3 bucks to the quid when I was over there for my OE. I felt like a millionaire! Hehe.

Sorry, I digress. TransDEM is quite involved but there are tutorials to follow and once you get around the geographical lingo, it's quite a simple process. I managed an 80 mile route in half a day. Only thing is I'm going to now spend the next 10 years detailing it.

I'm not sure what geo data is available for NZ though.

Hope I have completely confused you?

 

[geophil]

I'm not sure what geo data is available for NZ though.

Not too bad, actually, see here: http://forum.transdem.de/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=11

 

[Vern]

This is one project I tried to start a while ago in TS2009 but it coincided with performance problems on my old laptop and never really got beyond the first few miles of track placement.

At some point I might revisit the project even though I live 1000's of miles away. As Geophil says, the quality of NZ maps is really good and even show the old part of the route which is now a cycle track, which looks more interesting than the gorge section.

A compromise would probably be having to build in standard gauge, as I couldn't resist running a Class 37 or Class 40 up through those gorges!

 

[Vern]

Out of interest, I did a terrain and map extraction for Middlemarch to Cromwell in Transdem this morning. Unfortunately the resultant gnd file was too big for TS2010 CMP to deal with so I need to go back in and trim one or two tiles off the side of the area to bring it down to a manageable size.

It's probably a route best built in stages too, twenty to thirty miles at a time otherwise easy to get overwhelmed.