Noobmountain & Western WIP (medium-sized pics)

[Isegrinns]

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Part 2.

After leaving the loaded hoppers, we shove Cut 2 up to Shaft 5.

The cows seem to be unimpressed by our hard-working crew.

Even though they´re empty, we had a hard start up the 3-percent-grade!

After crossing the second bridge and passing are narrow curve, we load Cut 2 at Loader 1.

As heavy as it was to get them up, downgrade is far worse. Comment from firemen: "get me outta here, ´can´t see the black anymore".

After we got Cut 1 and cuopled our Cab back on, we made our second run-around an are ready to depart Consy-mine.

We then pushed back into the wye-track to Downtown Coal-Yard, let a local pass and head Mountain Branch to Calonia.

After a while, we pass Sitdfield Branch, a short piece of track to connect to two busy truck-fed tipples.

Right behind the tunnel, Benton Tipple greets.

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[Isegrinns]

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Part 3.

After making a stop in Highville, where a branch to Moretonn diverges and where we let an RDC pass, we need all the punch we can muster to head up the grade to Jefferson.
Right behind Highville´s station, the grade shows its teeth and we grit ours!
We pass the L&N bridge at Highville Falls.

We under-cross the L&N line.

Around the curve again....

We then highball through Jefferson and cross Jefferson Creek,

After a tunnel under Birch Ridge, we rumble over the famous bridge over Calonia Creek.

Quit a sight!

We then reach our destination, Calonia Yard.
A Mountain Branch Local waits for us to clear into track 5.

We then leave the consist, back into Calonia´s wye, head for the 2 track enginehouse, take coal, water and lubricate up and call it a day.

The Calonia switcher will strip the caboose and pull the consist to the marshalling yard, where each car will be weighted a second time, to document the amount of coal we shipped up here.
After that, the hoppers will be collected to make up 160-car-trains and then get picked up by the Pennsy, to which we connect here.





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[Alex99al]

It Just Gets Better and Better

This route just keeps making me happy. Keep up the good work.

 

[Isegrinns]

Thanks a lot!

Wait ´till I´ll plant grass and set up some details.
If I keep my pace, September is a realistic goal to finish this piece.
"Noobmountain & Western Phase one"....

Argh, I have the keep my ideas in check, they are overwhelming me right now.


One thing which I really hate is the "jigsaw-effect" of the roadbed. That´s the most annoying part of all the stuff which I´ll have to fix.

 

[Norfolkwesternman]

Hey, thank you very much for your comment!
This will keep me motivated to work on.


Actually, I use BOTH, A- & Y-Class-Locos. You can get them at Paulz Trainz
(http://www.paulztrainz.myenet.info/inside/inside.htm) if you like.

The route is totally freelance and based more on the N&W than on the Virginian. Until now, the scene with the Virginian trains is merely scenic.
But maybe I´ll extend it further to connect them somewhere.
First I´ll have to scenic what´s there and then I´ll see.

Thanks again!

out of the many years of being on Trainz, i have never seen anything like this before. Im a big N&W and VGN fan so i give you an A+. It just needs some J class, K class, and M class locomotives. great job

 

[Isegrinns]

Hey thank you!



I love all N&W stuff, recently I got 7 volumes of the "Pocahontas Glory" series plus the "Pillars of Smoke in the Sky" DVD. Great stuff! After I´ve seen them a few times, I re-designed my main yard to hold up to 140 cars, so that I can recreate the Montvale turns...

Last night I extended the L&N Line, which you can see up in the pics. It runs some BBs to meet the L&N main, which I connected further west to my N&W coal-marshalling yard, which I had not showed yet, because besides tracks, there´s not much to see yet.
This is how it looks right now:

Here my N&W connects to the class-1 RR which you can see crossing at Avern Junction. So there are 3 big doubletracked main crossing over and under each other.
This area is currently my focus. I´m not sure if the L&N will be the L&N in the final release, because this line uses the CPL-Signals and as far as I know, the L&N used those Searchlight types.

A signal, where all three lines connect:

And yeah, we definitive need J-K-M´s! There is hope for the M-class, but is anyone currently working on J or k?

 

[Isegrinns]

This thing occupied my day:

I´m re-working the small harbor area and there was no refinery which I liked, so I bashed my own.
It features 4 oil-loading tracks and a small LPG-loading rack.

Hope you like it.

 

[SantaFebuff]

Hey, could you tell me where you downloaded that oil filler for the railroad? I'm looking for something like that. Also, where did you get the pipeline spine that has multiple white pipes in a metal trestle/plyon system?

Cheers,
Joshua

 

[Isegrinns]

Two more, the you are trough!

The tankfarm got some walls, which secure the tanks in case of an oilspill. To reach each tank, I made up some bridges, which are from bendorsey. As well as the storage tanks itself. The wall is FMA.

@santa:
The white pipe calls itself "refinery rack" and was made by user "splatter". There is a seperate corner for them also.
This filler is from user "Neoklai75" and is called "n_Oil_Terminal_s".

 

[Isegrinns]

Busy time in Calonia.

In the foreground the Calonia local waits for a clear to depart down the mountain branch.

Behind the empties we spot a special transport of some huge cranking-shafts.
Sure they´ll go to a shipyard.
They come on 8-axle special flatcars. An idlercar is placed behind the loco to reduce weight on some smaller wooden bridges along the route.

In the background a PRR switcher shunts some VGN "Battleship"gons around.


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[Alex99al]

I still get amazed.

I am getting happier and happier at this amazing route.

 

[UP5521]

Man,like the previous,this route never ceases to impress,the detail of this route is stunning and amazing!

 

[jadebullet]

I am loving that Oil facilty.

 

[Isegrinns]

Today I teared down the engine service facility to build a better one.
I stumpled across bendorseys "Engine complex" series and was hooked instantly.

Yesterday I accidentialy deleted my base-session! Argh!
Now I´ve gotta set up all industries again.
Will take about 3h..... *sigh*
Whatever.
One good thing about it is that I can set my TOFC-yard to work with those nice F39-flatcars which
are hosted on MGTRAINZ...
Thats quite an improvement.

Besides that I commisioned wgkansks N&W cab, which I really, really recommend!
Awesome job.
My pic does not show it that fine, but I wanted to include at least one pic with it.

I´ll make some nice screens on sunday, the last day´s work isn´t stuff which will show much.

Have a nice weekend, y´all!

 

[Norfolkwesternman]

how many hours have you put into this? if not days. I am very impressed and i hope i don't get suspended for this but THE LAYOUT LOOKS SEXY!!!:hehe:

 

[Isegrinns]

Into the engine terminal? Not that much.
All parts were made, I just had to assemble them.


To the route as a whole, I´m on it since december.
Working 4-20h a day on it... Since I´m certified unfit for work since october, I have got a lot of time to make that monster.

I learned quite a bunch of lessons while doing it.
Some areas were completely torn down and reconstructed up to three times...

This area, for example, has been reshaped a lot. There is another bridge since the first time I showed it and some textures are different...
Mabe I´m changing the bridge another time, since I discovered some nice ones from bendorsey. The hills have smoothed as well and will be even more when I expand the route to three baseboards parallel to have a scenery more convincing and get that model-railroading feeling outta it.


Right now I´m thinking about completely reworking the forested areas to reduce the workload on my processor.
There will be some more changes before I´m satisfied with it.

So, enough blathering.

edit: eh, thank you very much! You´re welcome.

 

[Alex99al]

AWARDS TIME

YOU ARE THE WINNER OF THE: BEST TRAINZ ROUTE EVER.

 

[Isegrinns]

:udrool:

Thank you, but honestly, I am so far from deserving a title like that.
But I will try my best to try to not disappoint you, promised!

 

[UP5521]

well,despite the modifications to the engine servicing area, the whole railroad still looks great in my opinion!

 

[Kon1786]

Looking great ! i been busy away from trainz but been checking the updates on here . keep up the goodwork...