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[cascaderailroad]

I believe that there are at least 4 people working on the various route(s).

On is a rediculously huge route from Harrisburg/Enola to Pittsburgh, that would probably crash most PC's.

Mine is a bit too huge also from Mount Union to Johnstown, and may need cutting down.

Scratchy's is from Antis to Johnstown

 

[PBY357]

Who the heck is doing Pitt to HAR?

 

[cascaderailroad]

I can't remember ... but the route really needs to be made in manageable smaller sections: Harrisburg/Enola to Antis ... Antis to Johnstown ... Johnstown to Pitcairn ... Pitcairn to Conway

As one mega DEM is ridiculous in size ... I had to cut mine down is size as the GND file was too large to pack up as a CDP

 

[PBY357]

Oh I completely agree. But, back to my new found obsession over PRSL trains, here is the turning loop south of Wildwood Crest.

 

[Railwoodman]

Yea I knew of at least 5 people working on different section, And thought one was released, not publicly thought? On my own, I'm running into content needing to be made. And that list has grown to the point of years of work for myself. (unless I get really good and fast) Catenary of PRR bing one. The DEM map now take ten minutes to load, and I haven't even consider the Altoona yards, and trackage of the 50. Can't see why it would be anymore of a problem then some other sim have done? As to size. I have some very large routes, and they load fine. But I'm now have a DEM from Altoona to Johnstown working, I'm going to try again, with better maps of the yards and trackage.


Thanks for the replys
Matt

 

[jacksonbarno]

I am working on one from Harrisburg to Johnstown. I got bogged down with all of the track in Hardisburg and all of the catenary, so I started the Johnstown - Altoona portion. Currently, I have Rockville - Dunholm and Slope - MG done. Hopefully I will get some more time to work on it, as I have track charts and photographs of most areas now, but life decided to get in the way of any concentrated effort at this point.
On the other hand, I would love some pictures and diagrams of the yard leads in Enola.

Also, IF I could get a dem of Johnstown to Pittsburgh, with both the mainline and the Conemaugh line, I would definitely do it.

 

[cascaderailroad]

Best to concentrate on the 4 track mainline, and leave the 5 miles of yards for another time ... You'll never even get close to filling up a 36 track yard with dozens of consists of railcars, and hundreds of high poly loco's ... or your framerates will die

 

[PBY357]

Who knows, hopefully come May, the creation of such a route will be possible. If that's not the case, we should use cascaderailraod's plan and build it in modules. Then, we could merge them all together. I do offer my assistance to anybody who wants to do anything PRR Related.

 

[cascaderailroad]

They should be as iPortal, or Portal, connecting segmented route portions, so as to keep the GND file sizes small ... If you merged 7 different peoples route segments together, from Phila to Pittsburgh, the route GND file would be too big for most PC's to handle

 

[KenRuof]

I have the DEM from Harrisburg to Pittsburgh but I am waiting for TANE as the present game engine will probably not support it even if my computer will. I can load the map fine but there are no objects on it yet. I did have a route from Newton-Hamilton to Johnstown but gave up on it when I got TransDEM x64 being able to put the NED data together for the route with out crashing because of memory availability.

TANE looks promising but we will see, I hope they can deliver!

 

[Railwoodman]

KenRuof, you're the third person to say there waiting for TANE, is it yours and others opinion that the new engine will be that much of a change? Cause if that's the case, it will be another year a least till I get something up.

 

[PBY357]

Well Matt, if I can call you that, I believe TANE will make a difference. I hope the engine will be able to load bigger, longer, and more detailed routes and run that at 30 FPS. Part of the reason why I hope TANE will make a difference is because I cant stand slide show frames like this on this heavily detailed route I built:

In driver, I am lucky to hit 25FPS

 

[cascaderailroad]

Things that make a slide show of Trainz are multiple splines, such as bushs, telephone poles, roads ... etc ... even something as simple as choice of track, signals, buildings, and special switch levers, will drop your framerates by half, or even more.

 

[Railwoodman]

OK Ordered, TANE. This stated by a question of any PRR routes. And that's been answered pretty clearly, we would like more:hehe: So with that said, heres a new section of my fictional PRR route. ( remember one drink limit while building in trainz ) At this point It's time to start deleting:hehe:.


Matt

 

[KenRuof]

Railwoodman, I think TANE will make a difference first off it is 64bit, just look at TransDEM for instance with the 32 bit version it was almost impossible to make a map Harrisburg to Pittsburgh but with the 64bit version it was much easier and it was faster at it. Just the memory space alone is a big jump but now it is also using the native architecture of the CPU.

PS: Who's Pennsy coil cars are those?

 

[PBY357]

Simulatortrains. I think you can get them at JR.

 

[Railwoodman]

Yes the Coil Cars are at JR, were at USLW before they went down for rebuild, have been updated. PC, PRR, CR and industrial rail road names.

 

[Railwoodman]

PRR shots

 

[cascaderailroad]

GG1 Funeral Train ... lol

http://thecrhs.org/conrailfacts/Conrail-misrouted-a-GG1-funeral-train-all-the-way-to-Chicago

In 1980, Conrail sent a funeral train of 15 to 20 GG1's west on the Fort Wayne line (Pennsy main) all the way across Indiana before realizing their mistake and stopping it at Colehour yard in Indiana and returning it back east to be scrapped, making this the only time that GG1's ran thru Ft. Wayne Indiana, even if they were DIT.
Sources: Pennsywest yahoogroup members Norm Bell and Ken(no last name listed) who lived in Valporaiso at the time and saw it first hand. Not sure of the year, but it was mentioned in Trains magazine as well.
In the July 1979 issue of "Rails Northeast" is an article about the "Route of the G's", by J.W. Jack (the same Joe Jack?) which tells in detail what happened to this group of 12 GG1's. They were consigned to Pielet Bros. scrapyard in Chicago, Ill. They left Wilmington, Del. on 4-20-79, and were routed across the PRR mainline to Pittsburgh, then the Panhandle to Chicago, where they were turned back and run the Fort Wayne line back towards Youngstown, ending up at Hubbard, Ohio-Midwest Steel scrap instead. Consist was CR 2365/2667 Westbound, CR 6427/2667/2365 Eastbound. GG1's were 4815, 4862, 4854, 4868, 4898, 4861, 4803, 4858, 4870, 4825, 4838, 4821. Caboose CR 24038.

After taking a tour of the west end of the system, these dozen GG1's destined for the scrapper have arrived in Kent, Ohio for a crew change. They had left Wilmington without spacer cars, but someone in Crestline decided all that "dead weight" needed extra braking, so hoppers were added between each unit (never mind they had gone from Wilmington to Chicago and back to Crestline without them.....). After all was set in Crestline the train went east via Orrville and up to the former Erie Lackawanna in Akron, then east from there to the scrapper in Hubbard- more railroad than those old electrics had planned to see! The leader of this motley pack of junk survives today as CSX 8826. For additional info see : http://thecrhs.org/?q=conrailfacts/Conrail-misrouted-a-GG1-funeral-train-all-the-way-to-Chicago

 

[Railwoodman]

Keep this one moving with this