Some US-Canada border pics.

[gisa]

Absolutely stunning pics! The customs boths, signs and scenery is top notch! This will be a must download when it's finished!

If I might make a polite suggestion and you have some extra time (and haven't done it yet) why not lay some invisible track through a lane of that customs booth! I think it'd be a blast to drive a greyhound bus, or tractor trailer through there.

Keep up the great work! ^^

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Gisa ^^

 

[Transportfan]

The cabover truck shown in the pics is driveable.

 

[gisa]

:udrool: :udrool: :mop:

Great!

:wave:

Gisa ^^

 

[TrainMan12]

Those shots of the boarder looked great! I really loved the long lines of traffic.

 

[traincrazy0918]

ok,i tried everything, but i still cant get those cars in game, i mean as normal traffic just driving

 

[robby2]

Can i ask where you got the nice looking McDonalds restaurant? I got one off the DLS but it is really not close to what ours looks like. The one you have with the long sign is more close to ours and I would love to include it in my route.

Thanks,
Robby

 

[Transportfan]

Look for "Mcdonalds RESTRUANT" and the sign "Mcdonalds Pole Sign" on the Dls.

 

[rwk]

Wow, this is great! It looks just like a US-Canada border crossing. I was going to do a route crossing the 1000 Islands, in fact I have one done entirely by hand from my hometown of Allentown, PA 300 mi up to 100 Islands, and joined it with a Niagara-Toronto-Kingston route with the VIA line, much of the route except Toronto and some of the falls area is blank. However, I found a site with TranzDEM that can generate exact maps of Canada that can be used in Trainz with a map overlaid. I wanted to use my route as more of a highway sim riding in a car up to Canada like I did 2 years ago to Kingston, Toronto, and Niagara Falls. I reskinned highway signs from the DLS and made many copies of them for the actual overhead highway and exit signs in PA, NY, and Ontario, Canada like you did with the Canada sign. One more thing, in the US speed and distance signs are in miles, but in Canada they're in metric, all kilometers, km/h since Sept 1977. You should put some km/h signs on the Canada side and use mph signs for the US side. Do you plan on releasing this route to the public? Last, don't forget your passport or passport card next year when traveling to Canada! You will need it to return to the US. Can you tell me where you got the toll plaza items like booths, shelters, etc. for the border plaza?

 

[Transportfan]

I use the respective measurement signs for each side of the border, and am working on this metric conversion sign for the Canadian side:



Unfortunately, I can't put the route on the dls (80+ MB), but plan to distribute it on discs, send it over Skype, or find someone willing to host it.

The booths are on the dls: "Phone Box 1980" or "Telephone Box" and the canopy spline is called "Pensilina 5x10m".

 

[robbiehanson]

I can possibly host it, as long as there are no custom assets included. I've got some webspace for sim-racing stuff, but I can probably use it for this for a while. Let me know and I'll get you an FTP link via PM...

 

[rwk]

At some of the border crossings going into Canada the stop signs before the inspection booths say "ARRET" below the English word "STOP", Arret is French for stop. Also government signs like Citizenship and Immigration Canada are in both English and French. Do the gates actually work, or not? Where can I find them? The pic with the two bridges looks like the Ambassador Detroit-Windsor crossing, and the one with the big Canada sign is as big as the Niagara Falls or Buffalo crossings with all those lanes. Maybe you should do some other custom road signs like the metric sign. It's funny seeing those 100 signs coming from the US, where the highest number we see is 65. But, it's about the same. Can you imagine if someone from the US was doing 90 mph by mistake forgetting that Canada is metric and got pulled over by the Ontario cops or whatever and was actually doing 144 km/h?

 

[Transportfan]

At some of the border crossings going into Canada the stop signs before the inspection booths say "ARRET" below the English word "STOP", Arret is French for stop.

Just skinned a bilingual stop sign. I'll upload it if I get permission from the creator:



As for those gates, no they don't open. They're called "Closed Gate Right".

Can you imagine if someone from the US was doing 90 mph by mistake forgetting that Canada is metric and got pulled over by the Ontario cops or whatever and was actually doing 144 km/h?

If they thought 100 km/h meant MPH, that would be over 150 Km and they would get their car impounded and a $10,000 fine under a new Ontario racing law!

 

[rwk]

Does this have drivable roads? Is this for 04? How large is the layout? I would like a copy of this, if finished, do you think it would work via email? My email is rwk9024@msn.com If not, you could always send me a disk and I could give you my mailing address via PM. Also, you should have a list of what objects you used so we're not in the dark searching for missing objects. Those custom signs, will you release those, too to work with the route?

 

[Transportfan]

The layout is 83 mb and was originally created in '04, but is now in '06, so I'm not sure if it would still work in '04 or not. It has crossings by Bnsf50 that won't work for sure though. It has driveable roads, including 40 miles of realistic freeway.

 

[rwk]

Can 06 items be substituted in 04 with similar items, like replace the crossings with ProXings or Cloaked Ghosts's crossings? I don't have 06 because I'm more comfortable with 04, but I have Classics Harlem Line as well. I want this route, but I want to run it in 04 if possible.

 

[freightcar2]

I want it!:udrool:

 

[Michael_Evans]

Hi transportfan
What state/province is your route in?

 

[Transportfan]

Can 06 items be substituted in 04 with similar items, like replace the crossings with ProXings or Cloaked Ghosts's crossings? I don't have 06 because I'm more comfortable with 04, but I have Classics Harlem Line as well. I want this route, but I want to run it in 04 if possible.

You could use substitute crossings, but I don't know if you could open it up in '04. You could in Classics, though.

 

[Transportfan]

Hi transportfan
What state/province is your route in?

Northern Ontario, but set as a "Canadian Midwest" with farms, towns, and a large city, complete with suburban sprawl, rather than the real-world wilderness.

 

[freightcar2]

Hi!

Here are some shots of the Canada US border from my upcoming super-route Rural to City (which I posted shots of in the old forum), which is set in the Lake Superior Lakehead region with an alternate geography.

Looking north to Canada from the American side (Pardon the still-unfinished background).

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Amtrak's Superior (Fort William, ON - Minneapolis, MN) at the station in Pigeon River, Ontario, just before crossing the border.

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The train crossing the bridge. The passengers had better get their identification ready.

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The train being inspected by US Immigration. Will everyone on board make it across? (Note the lack of a motor or lever on the switch. The switch is a special spring-loaded version that only permits one-way movements from the Canada-bound convergent track. [Not sure if such swiches actually exist for real, mind you!]).

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Now, crossing by car....

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The bridge is backed up approaching the Customs plaza.

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Approaching the booth...

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View of the Customs facility.

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Meanwhile, the train is released to continue its journey south. Welcome to America!

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Where can you get that route?:udrool: