San Marino Railway?

[Vern]

Thanks Steve.

Edit: PS Steve, as an aside I also discovered on the DLS your excellent tunnel portals which are great because as track objects, avoids the height changing when playing with the dighole. However I'm struggling to find the matching spline section - either track with integrated tunnel walls or separate tunnel spline. If you could point me in the right direction would be much appreciated.

 

[steveflanders]

Hi Vern,
I've updated the configs on the two San Marino carriages to the revised kuid2 version of the bogey. It's odd that they were causing an issue as Content Manager in TANE identified the revised bogey as the required dependency and I'd used that to create the earlier cdps.
I haven't done matching splines for the tunnel entrances as I tend to use those made by Andi06. The track should change in the splines when you attach my metre-gauge SMR track ... hopefully...
Steve

PS. Not all my stuff is on the DLS by a long way. When Auran/N3V were mucking about with the versions (TC3 to TRS12 etc) I started getting loads of instructions from them to update my models. I don't react well to being told what to do with stuff I've given away for free so I've tended to only upload stuff to my own website: http://www.ballynagarrick.net/ing4trainz/index.htm
That is where all the latest versions of my models now live.

 

[Vern]

Steve, yes I've just found your excellent web site and bookmarked for future reference.

Do we know if the guy who commissioned the San Marino assets ever built the route? I've tried doing a bit of research myself but it's a relatively obscure prototype, not much information on the web and certainly not much in the way of accurate mapping, not even on the Perry Castaneda archive stuff!

 

[steveflanders]

Good, that's where everything of mine appears first. Occasionally I get a fit of the head staggers (as they call it here) and decide to upload to the DLS, but it usually creates more issues than it's worth. I try to update my website monthly although sometimes other things get in the way.

I've not heard from Filippo Ricci since about early 2012. He was involved in the group that persuaded the San Marino government to restore the power car and a length of track in the tunnel at the top end of the line in the hill town itself. I never saw any screenies of his route, if he got very far with it. Tracing the route on Google Earth is fairly straightforward and there is a map on Wikipedia to help plot it. The bit not shown, outside the principality, follows the river Ausa down to Rimini for about 9 miles. Filippo sent me a DVD which the society had made about the history of the line, but is very much a drama-documentary about the population using the tunnels as air-raid shelters during 1944 and then the subsequent restoration. It doesn't have any maps or technical info though. As it happens, my Dad was in the 4th Recce Regt which, with an RA unit, took San Marino during WW2 - small world! If you would like copies of the photos Filippo sent me I can send you a zip, just email me direct. I did a steam loco and some passenger and freight stock for Filippo as well, these were for a line in the south Tyrol.

Steve

 

[Vern]

This site actually provides a pretty good overlay of the route path.

If I did produce anything, likely to be a freelance representation, we shall see!

 

[steveflanders]

Yeap, I can't say I was especially tempted to do the route although I enjoyed doing the rolling stock etc. Too much of an Irish NG and Brunel fan!
Steve