Show Off Your Routes *Potential For Large Screenshots*
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OK, well, just for jollies, here's my "Docksider" route, really a just very tiny switching module designed specifically for Ben Neal's outstanding Docksider engine series...
featuring some very tight radii, gnarled trackwork, short runs, 5 mph or less, and 3 or 4 sidings for switching. Enough for 30-40 minute sessions, about all I can manage...
the usual (for me) post-war urban blight, yes a tad overdone...
I became an enthusiastic Docksider fan when Model Railroader featured Earl Smallshaw's highly modified Varney Docksider in the Feb 81' issue...
Seems like yesterday.
Many thanks to Ben Neal for this fantastic locomotive.
Best,
smyers
featuring some very tight radii, gnarled trackwork, short runs, 5 mph or less, and 3 or 4 sidings for switching. Enough for 30-40 minute sessions, about all I can manage...
the usual (for me) post-war urban blight, yes a tad overdone...
I became an enthusiastic Docksider fan when Model Railroader featured Earl Smallshaw's highly modified Varney Docksider in the Feb 81' issue...
Seems like yesterday.
Many thanks to Ben Neal for this fantastic locomotive.
Best,
smyers
Sek_Hakuna
Active member
post-war urban blightOK, well, just for jollies, here's my "Docksider" route, really a just very tiny switching module designed specifically for Ben Neal's outstanding Docksider engine series...
featuring some very tight radii, gnarled trackwork, short runs, 5 mph or less, and 3 or 4 sidings for switching. Enough for 30-40 minute sessions, about all I can manage...
the usual (for me) post-war urban blight, yes a tad overdone...
I became an enthusiastic Docksider fan when Model Railroader featured Earl Smallshaw's highly modified Varney Docksider in the Feb 81' issue...
Seems like yesterday.
Many thanks to Ben Neal for this fantastic locomotive.
Best,
smyers
Fantastic screen shots. I also realize the amount of time it takes to create those scenes in Trainz. Thanks for sharing.
Randall
Absolutely stunning, as always @smyers .OK, well, just for jollies, here's my "Docksider" route, really a just very tiny switching module designed specifically for Ben Neal's outstanding Docksider engine series...
featuring some very tight radii, gnarled trackwork, short runs, 5 mph or less, and 3 or 4 sidings for switching. Enough for 30-40 minute sessions, about all I can manage...
the usual (for me) post-war urban blight, yes a tad overdone...
I became an enthusiastic Docksider fan when Model Railroader featured Earl Smallshaw's highly modified Varney Docksider in the Feb 81' issue...
Seems like yesterday.
Many thanks to Ben Neal for this fantastic locomotive.
Best,
smyers
Cheers,
Piere.
Truly a masterful work. I love it when you post scenes with new objects and clutter.
My mind is completely blown!! Just WOW!!!! You have sown us what is possible even if it is impossible for most.Many thanks for your kind comments, friends. Here's a couple more shots...
...and, are you ready? This is the whole thing, When I said tiny, I wasn't kidding!
Best,
smyers
TrimetWESFan1003
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The smelters yard
Slowly but surely, I've been chipping away at this 70 mile behemoth that I've named the "Irontown Subdivision". Here is a look at the most recent work. I've taken to calling this short but very formidable area "Alder Canyon". The original ROW through the narrowest part of the canyon was abandoned in the early 1900s in favour of a large bridge and a longer tunnel in order to eliminate several snowsheds and sharp curves.
Another look at the old line. The canyon ends very abruptly here, opening up into a large lake valley, high up on the mountainside.
Just around the corner, RNCR intermodal train 180 approaches CP Alder Canyon, which is the beginning of a double tracking extension completed in the early 1990s. The old line is visible crossing the Grey River looking down the canyon. The above pictures are only a couple hundred metres around the corner.
RNCR 180 finds the sucker hole of light still shining into the canyon at milepost 10.8. The new alignment rejoins the original at this location.
Though the double tracking in this area covered only a mile of the line, the project was no small feat of engineering, fighting for space between an active slide zone and a fast moving river. The old wooden snowsheds were removed, and 4 new concrete sheds built in their place. Looking in the opposite direction, we see 2 of the snowsheds and the slide path. Portions of the slide zone have become inactive over time, allowing for the installation of much shorter snowsheds. The stone retaining wall is a leftover from the old snowshed, showing how much more of the line used to be covered here.
This is a slightly older shot, before I scrapped the old slide path foliage and started over.
One of the other custom snowsheds.
A little farther up, at milepost 13, an RNCR manifest freight crests the summit and slows for the approach to Alder Canyon and the steep drop down towards a crew change and the end of the route.
Lastly, a CP manifest freight navigates the snowsheds in the early morning. The original CP transcontinental mainline through Alberta and British Columbia has fascinated me all my life, and is what laid the inspiration for this route. Currently I only have about 15ish miles of trackside scenery completed, but my progress has been continually speeding up as of late. And yes I do plan on a public release eventually, whenever that may end up being.
Another look at the old line. The canyon ends very abruptly here, opening up into a large lake valley, high up on the mountainside.
Just around the corner, RNCR intermodal train 180 approaches CP Alder Canyon, which is the beginning of a double tracking extension completed in the early 1990s. The old line is visible crossing the Grey River looking down the canyon. The above pictures are only a couple hundred metres around the corner.
RNCR 180 finds the sucker hole of light still shining into the canyon at milepost 10.8. The new alignment rejoins the original at this location.
Though the double tracking in this area covered only a mile of the line, the project was no small feat of engineering, fighting for space between an active slide zone and a fast moving river. The old wooden snowsheds were removed, and 4 new concrete sheds built in their place. Looking in the opposite direction, we see 2 of the snowsheds and the slide path. Portions of the slide zone have become inactive over time, allowing for the installation of much shorter snowsheds. The stone retaining wall is a leftover from the old snowshed, showing how much more of the line used to be covered here.
This is a slightly older shot, before I scrapped the old slide path foliage and started over.
One of the other custom snowsheds.
A little farther up, at milepost 13, an RNCR manifest freight crests the summit and slows for the approach to Alder Canyon and the steep drop down towards a crew change and the end of the route.
Lastly, a CP manifest freight navigates the snowsheds in the early morning. The original CP transcontinental mainline through Alberta and British Columbia has fascinated me all my life, and is what laid the inspiration for this route. Currently I only have about 15ish miles of trackside scenery completed, but my progress has been continually speeding up as of late. And yes I do plan on a public release eventually, whenever that may end up being.
HoggerDrew
CP/VIA Rail Modeler
So, this is route I'm going to show is not 100% mine. This is a largely edited and reworked version of neilsmith749's "Desert Mountain Plains" that is still very much a WIP(new industries added almost daily). I'm trying to add a bit of a PNW/British Columbia feel to it, and add more industries and switching opportunities, while keeping some fictional names for greater diversity with rolling stock/home roads. For starters, I went across the entire map and added in extra baseboards for mountain scenery as well as some extra water/river scenes, then slowly but surely I have been reworking the main town to be a bit busier and make it into a true divisional point as well as focal point for the road.
The following photos are taken in and around the PGW yards at Suswap, BC. PGW, or Pacific Great Western, was a smaller Class 2 road that was first established as the Canadian branch of the Oregon, Columbia & Southeastern, which was then leased in 1981 to CP Rail for 99 years. Primary traffic on the line is coal and forest products, with a woodchip barge operation, a Cascades paper mill, and a power plant on the outside of town that is powered by biomass. There's also a few lumber yards as well as a thriving "deep-sea" port that handles lumber and coal exports to Asia as well as hosts the Coast Guard and an Air Tour/Taxi service.
Enough background, here's the photos:
Overlooking the coal pier and the 'Osaka Maru' alongside. To the far left/top is the Travis Yard (named for an OC&SE Engine Foreman) where the chip trains usually get made up and broken up for the RiverLink dock. Suswap yard is center/bottom and behind the camera to the lower left would be the small storage yard for the Cascades plant. The coal pier is just starting up again after a 4 month maintenance shutdown, normally the 3 tracks closest to the river are full of hoppers
Yard power rest between assignment in Suswap Yard. These 3 RS18u's are almost always coupled together to help tackle the tasks of switching cuts of chips between RiverLink/Travis and Haida G.S., a task they share with 3601/45, as well as they are the assigned yard power for the 0731 job, which is the turn responsible for switching the Cascades plant, a printing warehouse, a lumber yard, and the docks as needed
PGW 3601 leads 3645 as they slide by the coal pier with a string of empty chip cars, getting ready to shove them back into the RiverLink yard to make up the next set of empties to run north to the Kallaneal and Logan sawmills
Arial view of the Haida Generating Station, a 2,140MW biomass fueled plant
The "RiverLink" woodchip dock and CP barges
The Shipping/Finishing side of the Cascades Paper Mill. Goods move by road and rail here
The inbound chemical and woodchip tracks. CP 8722 is currently spotting a dye car on the inbound rack
The following photos are taken in and around the PGW yards at Suswap, BC. PGW, or Pacific Great Western, was a smaller Class 2 road that was first established as the Canadian branch of the Oregon, Columbia & Southeastern, which was then leased in 1981 to CP Rail for 99 years. Primary traffic on the line is coal and forest products, with a woodchip barge operation, a Cascades paper mill, and a power plant on the outside of town that is powered by biomass. There's also a few lumber yards as well as a thriving "deep-sea" port that handles lumber and coal exports to Asia as well as hosts the Coast Guard and an Air Tour/Taxi service.
Enough background, here's the photos:
Overlooking the coal pier and the 'Osaka Maru' alongside. To the far left/top is the Travis Yard (named for an OC&SE Engine Foreman) where the chip trains usually get made up and broken up for the RiverLink dock. Suswap yard is center/bottom and behind the camera to the lower left would be the small storage yard for the Cascades plant. The coal pier is just starting up again after a 4 month maintenance shutdown, normally the 3 tracks closest to the river are full of hoppers
Yard power rest between assignment in Suswap Yard. These 3 RS18u's are almost always coupled together to help tackle the tasks of switching cuts of chips between RiverLink/Travis and Haida G.S., a task they share with 3601/45, as well as they are the assigned yard power for the 0731 job, which is the turn responsible for switching the Cascades plant, a printing warehouse, a lumber yard, and the docks as needed
PGW 3601 leads 3645 as they slide by the coal pier with a string of empty chip cars, getting ready to shove them back into the RiverLink yard to make up the next set of empties to run north to the Kallaneal and Logan sawmills
Arial view of the Haida Generating Station, a 2,140MW biomass fueled plant
The "RiverLink" woodchip dock and CP barges
The Shipping/Finishing side of the Cascades Paper Mill. Goods move by road and rail here
The inbound chemical and woodchip tracks. CP 8722 is currently spotting a dye car on the inbound rack
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