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Carbon & Limestone Railroad. 'The Rocky Road!'
"Whisky River take my mind!" ♪, ♫, ♬
Born at the confluence of Crooked Creek and Riley Creek the Whiskey River flows northward towards the Ohio River. The river will live up to her name when we leave the mountains and get in bourbon country. Those distilleries are fairly decent railroad customers! The catch is they are all but closed down for most of the year. But when they do open the barrels, fire up the distillery & start bottling we will be ready to keep their grain elevator full.
Large stone cliffs loom like sentinels over the river as our local passenger train enters the Whisky River Gorge. You eagle eyed Trainz Surveyors and Civil Engineers can and probably have already spotted a couple of rough mis-aligned tracks, I had it all good yesterday but this morning a couple of spots had slipped. I also just this week had a long trestle just drop to ground level along its whole length when I logged on. Sure easy to fix but the mystery of what is causing that is of some interest. Regardless that's my story and I am sticking to it.
The focal point of the Whisky River Gorge. the river has carved out a horseshoe and left a small mountain or big hill behind looking like a fortress. If this route ever get released you'll see I did my best to make it plausible with how I started and stopped with other ridgelines and river erosion.
Ok, probably not the best use of our funds but we have a bonified cut stone bridge on the C&L route now! Our run of the mill timber trestle built in day by our jake-legs just did not seem right for such a beautiful location. (Side note: To top it all off that's MSGSapper's water we use. It is flowing brother! The water is moving very fast and is white not clear as you can see under the bridge. Awesome stuff.)
Note: Yes I saw that brilliantly insane Gorge that was just posted by Krpkk! Too funny after spending most of yesterday working on this scene. But if your going to run with the big dogs you Gotta get off the porch and mix it up!
"Whisky River take my mind!" ♪, ♫, ♬
Born at the confluence of Crooked Creek and Riley Creek the Whiskey River flows northward towards the Ohio River. The river will live up to her name when we leave the mountains and get in bourbon country. Those distilleries are fairly decent railroad customers! The catch is they are all but closed down for most of the year. But when they do open the barrels, fire up the distillery & start bottling we will be ready to keep their grain elevator full.
Large stone cliffs loom like sentinels over the river as our local passenger train enters the Whisky River Gorge. You eagle eyed Trainz Surveyors and Civil Engineers can and probably have already spotted a couple of rough mis-aligned tracks, I had it all good yesterday but this morning a couple of spots had slipped. I also just this week had a long trestle just drop to ground level along its whole length when I logged on. Sure easy to fix but the mystery of what is causing that is of some interest. Regardless that's my story and I am sticking to it.
The focal point of the Whisky River Gorge. the river has carved out a horseshoe and left a small mountain or big hill behind looking like a fortress. If this route ever get released you'll see I did my best to make it plausible with how I started and stopped with other ridgelines and river erosion.
Ok, probably not the best use of our funds but we have a bonified cut stone bridge on the C&L route now! Our run of the mill timber trestle built in day by our jake-legs just did not seem right for such a beautiful location. (Side note: To top it all off that's MSGSapper's water we use. It is flowing brother! The water is moving very fast and is white not clear as you can see under the bridge. Awesome stuff.)
Note: Yes I saw that brilliantly insane Gorge that was just posted by Krpkk! Too funny after spending most of yesterday working on this scene. But if your going to run with the big dogs you Gotta get off the porch and mix it up!
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@smyers I just looked up his username and found a post that featured some screenies of one of his routes....very impressive. I believe I had seen these in the past. Looking at them now gives me some ideas.... 
G'day Guys,
I was just wondering (hoping / begging) whether there is *any* chance that this stunning masterpiece of a route by @felix_g will ever be released? I cannot find the words to express just how much I love the look of his work in this route.
For those newer members who may not have had the pleasure of seeing it when he was posting his progress shots;
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I was just wondering (hoping / begging) whether there is *any* chance that this stunning masterpiece of a route by @felix_g will ever be released? I cannot find the words to express just how much I love the look of his work in this route.
For those newer members who may not have had the pleasure of seeing it when he was posting his progress shots;
Railwoodman
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hiawathamr
DLC developer for Trainz
Today I've decided to share a seasonal comparsion screenshot of one of my WIP routes
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IsambardKingdomBrunel
Joined June 2001
Yup one is green and one is white. 
jaredvazquez012
Well-known member
Making a Saturday check-in of my WIP tram route focusing on the areas I worked on.
Starting off, I found a suitable shelter asset for the tram stops (courtesy of user chris_rose_1). Also built a water fountain out of separate assets complete with water sprays from TheBoroughGamer of The Huntington Shops:
Most of my focus was on this area after sharing the last screenshot I posted in this thread. I opted to put on display a B-47 Stratojet (amazing asset from MSGSapper). We can presume that a part of this town sits on what used to be an air force base, and while no traces of it exists anymore, this aircraft serves as a historical landmark of what used to be here. I salute current and retired members of the U.S Air Force, thank you for your service:
And I figured to reveal what name I will give this route by reskinning a hanging sign asset originally made by davesnow. I'll need to ask for his permission for uploading to the DLS once I finish the route:
And that will be all for now. More screenshots will come when time allows.
With regards, jaredvazquez012.
Starting off, I found a suitable shelter asset for the tram stops (courtesy of user chris_rose_1). Also built a water fountain out of separate assets complete with water sprays from TheBoroughGamer of The Huntington Shops:
Most of my focus was on this area after sharing the last screenshot I posted in this thread. I opted to put on display a B-47 Stratojet (amazing asset from MSGSapper). We can presume that a part of this town sits on what used to be an air force base, and while no traces of it exists anymore, this aircraft serves as a historical landmark of what used to be here. I salute current and retired members of the U.S Air Force, thank you for your service:
And I figured to reveal what name I will give this route by reskinning a hanging sign asset originally made by davesnow. I'll need to ask for his permission for uploading to the DLS once I finish the route:
And that will be all for now. More screenshots will come when time allows.
With regards, jaredvazquez012.
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Carbon & Limestone Railroad. 'The Rocky Road!'
Old Crow Distillery. New Customer!
Brought back The Old Crow Distillery. Hidden in a deep valley in Kentucky. A little creek runs through and everything is squeezed in a tight little area. When they closed I went there with our Salesman to make arrangements for the outfit I worked for to do work there, probably 1987. We ended up with no escort and explored as much as we wanted. Never will forget going into an office building and all the old timey tickets & paperwork covered the floors. Jim Beam bought out Old Crow and moved production to Louisville. KY. that year. But it did not look like they had been in there working for a while to me.
Delivering coal on their trestle coal dump. Yeah right right up front, but these guys didn't seem to give a hoot about how anything looked. Every distillery I have been to has been a dump! That cool grey brick euro factory building was as close as I could get to the cut stone the Old Crow Distillery used for construction. We primarily will be bringing in the coal as mentioned and also grain.
That's the run-down on our latest customer that has been signed up by our crack General Freight Agent. Here are a couple of images from reading up on the Old Crow Distillery. Much more available if you interested by asking AI or just googling.
Old Crow Distillery. New Customer!
Brought back The Old Crow Distillery. Hidden in a deep valley in Kentucky. A little creek runs through and everything is squeezed in a tight little area. When they closed I went there with our Salesman to make arrangements for the outfit I worked for to do work there, probably 1987. We ended up with no escort and explored as much as we wanted. Never will forget going into an office building and all the old timey tickets & paperwork covered the floors. Jim Beam bought out Old Crow and moved production to Louisville. KY. that year. But it did not look like they had been in there working for a while to me.
Delivering coal on their trestle coal dump. Yeah right right up front, but these guys didn't seem to give a hoot about how anything looked. Every distillery I have been to has been a dump! That cool grey brick euro factory building was as close as I could get to the cut stone the Old Crow Distillery used for construction. We primarily will be bringing in the coal as mentioned and also grain.
That's the run-down on our latest customer that has been signed up by our crack General Freight Agent. Here are a couple of images from reading up on the Old Crow Distillery. Much more available if you interested by asking AI or just googling.
A few more shots...some downtown wandering this time.
.... and yes that is some atv shots riding down the streets....planning a ride along with one of the railroads employees around the route. Future shots of that to follow....
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Walter
@netjam99 - I'm loving the new route shots. Very original...
.... and yes that is some atv shots riding down the streets....planning a ride along with one of the railroads employees around the route. Future shots of that to follow....
Cheers
Walter
@netjam99 - I'm loving the new route shots. Very original...
Nope. No permission needed since all my assets are in the Public Domain. Upload away!!
Thank you sir! Outstanding work on the street scenes. My favorite is the steel mill looming over everything in one of the screenshots.
jaredvazquez012
Well-known member
I appreciate your response! The hanging sign will be uploaded once the route is finished, and I have made sure to give you credit for the mesh in the description
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Now that I'm retired, I have time to work more on the Levi & Appalachian V2. I've been updating the "bottoms" with updated buildings and the skyline of Cincinnati. The bottoms are famous for street running and the L&A does its best to try and service its customers at night as not to disrupt traffic to much. Of course, this was the old mainline before the city grew around it. The L&A did do a reroute around the area, but the bypass is heavily use by passenger traffic and if there's a conflict with passenger rail traffic the dispatcher has no problem routing his freight trains through the bottoms, much to the chagrin of the people there.
The crew of the L&A bottoms local are starting their evening leaving the yard with their first two customers cars. The crews keep their trains short for a few reasons. Theres only limited room for doing run arounds and switching and shorter trains make for less trouble for street-running.
This is the crew heading under the C&O tracks overhead.
Just a shot of the skyline.
First stop of the night, TNT Express. The Railfan is standing on the dock watching the L&A crew spot the cars.
Another shot of spotting cars at TNT Express.
Time to do a run around to get ready to deliver the reefers to Fred Wilson Produce.
Time to push the cars into Wilson Produce.
The railfan got on the dock at Fred Wilson Produce to catch the crew spotting the cars. After the crew drops off the reefers they will run back to the Bottoms yard to grab their next train and continue the nights work.
Dave
The crew of the L&A bottoms local are starting their evening leaving the yard with their first two customers cars. The crews keep their trains short for a few reasons. Theres only limited room for doing run arounds and switching and shorter trains make for less trouble for street-running.
This is the crew heading under the C&O tracks overhead.
Just a shot of the skyline.
First stop of the night, TNT Express. The Railfan is standing on the dock watching the L&A crew spot the cars.
Another shot of spotting cars at TNT Express.
Time to do a run around to get ready to deliver the reefers to Fred Wilson Produce.
Time to push the cars into Wilson Produce.
The railfan got on the dock at Fred Wilson Produce to catch the crew spotting the cars. After the crew drops off the reefers they will run back to the Bottoms yard to grab their next train and continue the nights work.
Dave
Carbon & Limestone Railroad. 'The Rocky Road!'
Union Mills, Another new customer as we continue along the Whiskey River. Then we will finish by reviewing a change of plan over at Old Crow Distillery.
Union Mills 'Whiskey River Plant.' will be a very important textile customer with an estimated seven loaded boxcars going out daily and the C&L bringing in seven to load. Great general freight numbers. (This textile plant and the surrounding company housing is a couple of miles beyond the city limits of Union, Kentucky.)
The backend of Union Textiles' Whisky River Mill. In the south of the USA many grand old Textile plants are operating after WWII. (The boiler house might be lacking in size, but I did not leave room for a good sized one! also double tracks have been laid down on the main line to provide an open lead track while the boxcars at the loading docks are shuffled around.)
If publicity photos are happening you know Old Number 34 will some how show up! To reach a point where we are confident in the distillery a 3rd major grain elevator building was added in. Its that huge so ugly its beautiful concrete structure right above #34 locomotive. Corn, melted barley and rye will be in the three large grain elevator structures. Your probably saying we missed one! ...but wheat is used in quantity for milder tasting bourbons than Old Crow so what will be needed in wheat can just come in by the bag.
Small time stuff but an example of the Old Crow crew trying to do it right! The water tower cleaned and touched up with some paint, a new tank will have to be installed at some point in the near future since the rusting is so bad.
(Note: Getting better at re-skinning. Using layers some of which we just use with a very light light touch so that the structural objects like rivets are still visible. Heck even some rust spots still show a bit under the lettering paint! Found that font online at a free site. Its Western. We actually needed Western & Gothic combined, but this was the best free font I could find and its real close anyway.)
Union Mills, Another new customer as we continue along the Whiskey River. Then we will finish by reviewing a change of plan over at Old Crow Distillery.
Union Mills 'Whiskey River Plant.' will be a very important textile customer with an estimated seven loaded boxcars going out daily and the C&L bringing in seven to load. Great general freight numbers. (This textile plant and the surrounding company housing is a couple of miles beyond the city limits of Union, Kentucky.)
The backend of Union Textiles' Whisky River Mill. In the south of the USA many grand old Textile plants are operating after WWII. (The boiler house might be lacking in size, but I did not leave room for a good sized one! also double tracks have been laid down on the main line to provide an open lead track while the boxcars at the loading docks are shuffled around.)
If publicity photos are happening you know Old Number 34 will some how show up! To reach a point where we are confident in the distillery a 3rd major grain elevator building was added in. Its that huge so ugly its beautiful concrete structure right above #34 locomotive. Corn, melted barley and rye will be in the three large grain elevator structures. Your probably saying we missed one! ...but wheat is used in quantity for milder tasting bourbons than Old Crow so what will be needed in wheat can just come in by the bag.
Small time stuff but an example of the Old Crow crew trying to do it right! The water tower cleaned and touched up with some paint, a new tank will have to be installed at some point in the near future since the rusting is so bad.
(Note: Getting better at re-skinning. Using layers some of which we just use with a very light light touch so that the structural objects like rivets are still visible. Heck even some rust spots still show a bit under the lettering paint! Found that font online at a free site. Its Western. We actually needed Western & Gothic combined, but this was the best free font I could find and its real close anyway.)
hiawathamr
DLC developer for Trainz
I've finally decided to learn on how the new water system works in Trainz and I got more of a hang of it after reading over the manual. I like having the ability of having different water effects on the same route without being limited to just one effect. 
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