Route Of Your Home Area For Trainz?

I have been working on a prototypical route portraying about 70 miles of the Naugatuck Branch of the New Haven Railroad in Connecticut from Devon thru Waterbury to Winsted during the 1940's. (Goes thru my hometown of Torrington, CT)

I am using DEM terrain, railroad valuation maps, offical track charts, etc. I have been working on it for two years and hope to be finished for Christmas.
 
HSSRAIL said:
...I am currently debating the merits of modeling the windows and doors separately or pasting them on as textures. There is so much work to be done.
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I vote for textures. Done right, they look just as good and ease the frame rates considerably.

:cool: Claude
 
I used to have a link to some guy's site that allowed you to register, place your location on a map and locate any other trainzers near you. Prowler, I think you were on it. But I've lost it, changing laptops.
Norm
 
I've started on the old NYC (now CSX) route from the W. Springfield Ma. yard to the Palmer Diamond. I'm doing this in TRS2006. I've got all the DEM's onto the boards with the Tiger overlay, now the long process of tweaking the terrain for track. I also ordered Doolinator's TRS2004 layout of the CSX Berkshire Sub to use as a reference.
 
I made a route running from Bournemouth to Poole on the South Coast of England.

It is route that i used to travel on a lot when I was at school and although short with just 4 stations on ... it covers the area around home.

I used google earth extensively to get the measurements and by triangulating these with strategic points along the way I have a pretty accurate representation.

I also went along and photographed some parts to get as close to reality as possible.....there was a thread on the screenshots section dedicated to pics of the route but sadly that is now gone along with the old forum.

all that matters though is that I LOVE it and one day I may extend it further in either direction.

regards.....Nij
 
Monon in Indianapolis

About a year ago, I started modelling the Monon in Indianapolis. I have tracks and buildings from 23rd Street to 96th Street. I've been placing trees, and have them from 23rd Street to the White River.

Originally, I had planned to model it all the way to Frankfort, so I could drive trains from one yard to another. It's built on Fishlips's baseboards of Indianapolis. So, to model north of Indianapolis I was going to do some kind of route compression. In 1959-1962 (my modeling period) that was all corn and bean fields -- pretty boring.

I'm working full time and going to grad school, so I only get to work on it during breaks, and the occasional weekend.
 
The NYS&W

The railroad will definitely show up on my Erie layout. Because of the limitations of the Hog and Trainz's Layout merging functions I was not able to model on one layout the DLW and the Erie Lines. The NYSW lines will show up better on the DLW layout because the Lackawanna and the NYSW parallel each other better. The Boonton line goes up to Paterson turns west travels to Mountain View the lines will be closer thus than the Erie which only parallels the NYSW as far North as Paterson though the NYSW used the Erie Terminal in Jersey City.
 
trains in slc utah.

i live in slc utah in the city and i have the union pacific,bnsf,utah railway and the trax line so their is plenty to see the line that is close to me is the old drgw line not much runs this way just up,bnsf,utah railway,amtrak.
 
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I'm building my 'second home' area of Kuala Lumpur on UTC using a Street Directory and Google Earth ad lots of pics. I didn't do my 'first home' area because here in Singapore, we only have one track going up 20km to Malaysia. That's real boring unlike the 4-track electrified stations in Kuala Lumpur.
 
I have recreated the extinct railways of the central scottish borders. So far I have done the main line between Hawick And Galashiels, the selkirk branch, Peebes loop as far as Peebles from gala and the Berwickshire Railway as far as Duns. It's a big map
 
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Ive started on my home town of Morecambe to Lancaster...circa 1980, but from that base Im going to go forwards in time to the new station and dual single track working; and backwards in time to the MASSIVE amount of railway there used to be, with two stations in Morecambe, two seperate routes to Lancaster, two Lancaster stations (linked with an extra steep hill). One route was electrified aswell.... could be a while dont hold youre breath!!
 
Devon Lines covers Newton Abbot to Exeter passing my house as it arrives in Exeter the track is based on the pre 1960 period but some scenery represents a more up to date time. It is based on the real views of the line.
 
The sleepy NSWGR (Australia) 'pioneer' line from Koorawatha to Grenfell ran through the middle of my Grandmothers farm. I spent a lot of my childhood there, and have placed a tracking camera in my Weddin route at the place from which I used to watch the (ocassional !) passing trains. Steam hauled mixed goods, mail, and diesel railcars were the main traffic, however these days these services have been cut, and the line is now only used by privately operated seasonal wheat trains emptying the bulk wheat silo at Greenethorpe. Even this service is under repeated threat of closure. There is an old TRS 2004 version of the line, which I have called Weddin (after the shire), on the DLS. I will upload an improved 2006 SP1 version I am working on when I'm happy with it.
Phil.
 
i got a ns one made from when i first got trains useing sattilite but its not very ggod in deatail
 
I want to work on the line that runs from my hometown, Chaska, Minnesota, to the connection west of Shakopee, Minnesota. The railroad is the Union Pacific and the commodity here is sugar believe it or not.
 
I'm modeling Pittsburgh, PA, my former hometown. I don't live there anymore, but I have lived there for a good portion of my life.
 
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