Ffestiniog & Welsh Highland & N.Z. Ongarue (New Zealand) Narrow Gauge Rts
Good Sun Morning all,
:udrool: Well I think sometimes it should be illegal for one person to have so much fun in Trainz.
I have been busy sorting out Faulty and missing Assets for some of the new Narrow Gauge Routes, (Ffestiniog & Welsh Highland was not one of them ,everything perfect) but some others well, they are little dated, I think 2006 and 2009 versions and there Textures and other items got skinned a bit with the import into T:ANE, but they look so interesting to play with, well I just had to bring them in to snoop around.:hehe:
Below is Ffestiniog & Welsh Highland, I found out it has more than one Gauge of Track on the same route and that's OK, Problem is I have to match Narrow Gauge to the correct NG Gauge of Track, and that's going to take a bit for me to learn the difference, and then find out where to look for correct NG livery. It's all good, as I learn more of subtle differences with Track Gauge. So here is Passenger Train on Standard Gauge part, I just wanted to run something to see how it looked. This Route is really cool to play with.
I put it on a Stub Track, that hooks into the Main Line, so I'm headed up to the switch ahead. Nice looking Tracks wouldn't you agree, lots of good Detail.
Got a couple of Shay Climaxes pulling a few cars on another track.
And here is a Map view of the N.Z. Ongarue (New Zealand narrow gauge) Route. Fairly nice size, but is going to be a lot of work, I will play with this and the Zhukovka NG Route to see which I like better as practicality?
As you can see below, Texture took a hell of beating from T:ANE, so there's lot's Ground work to do.........Amazingly the Trees made it OK from what I can see. The invisible Red Rail line I believe is for some kind of Boat to move thru Water here, yup, you got it, no water in the Route either......
Here is the Author's notes about the Route.......It explains it better than i can......
"This route-build is yet unfinished, but is pleasently explorable as is. Feel free to complete it or alter as you wish. Requires TS2010 version 41615 or later. This is a factual route of the once renowned timber milling operation at Ongarue, New Zealand.This operation was built, maintained and operated by Ellis and Burnand Ltd , a privately owned company.
- 530 tiles of 30m Dem terrain hgt data by NZDEM and processed using TransDem 2.
- Built in the 1960's era, includes the old Okahukura station/yard and S.O.L. junction.
- The bush tram section of this route is complete as far as camp 11 at Waione, but the remainder is unfinished. I have left the Dem terrain and track vector lines in place should anyone wish to finish it.
- An excellent reference for this route is Ken Andersons book : Sparse Timber Sawmillers Ellis And Burnand Ltd Sawmillers And Timber Merchants in Ongarue.I think most major town libraries have this book.
- At present there is approx 27km of bush tram complete.
- If bush tram is not your thing, then there is approx. 25km of N.I.M.T. from Ongarue down to Taumaranui."
Go to Google and type in "bush tram" and you'll get to see lots of pictures from New Zealand about their Bush Trams, I wasn't familiar with the word till I read the Authors Notes..........
I think that'll do it for tonight Folks....Have a blessed Sunday, and I'll see you all later....
Thank you for dropping in to visit.