Something different from me, a new Austrian route

nikos1

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hmmmm well this is a big change from my normal content so let me explain. in 2003 and 2004 i spent the summer in Innsbruck, Austria, i lived within site of both the citys major train station and would spend many days watching trains at the station or the trams that ran in the street in front of my apartment and developed a large interest in european railways. When i got trainz i set out to build a Austrian layout based on some plans for a never to be build model railroad:p this was early on and i knew little about routebuilding and indisciminantly used textures and eventually i hit the limit, after that i set the layout aside and now and then tryed to find a solution. well this past thursday i had school off and had a brilliant idea on how to fix it, suprisingly this time it actually worked:p. i then set out to completly redo the layout (or at least a small portion of it, most of it is a huge untextured mess:rolleyes:) here are the results.
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That last reply is a bit of an understatement. These shots are simply fantastic! Those mountains are excellent. As someone who has trouble creating decent looking mountains I am very impressed with yours. Did you use DEM to create them?

The texturing is spot on too. Well done.

Best wishes,
Padster
 
thanks Padster, for this layout i have been using displacement maps redone by hand and the rest is just done manualy.
UPDATE
redid this area today, the track crosses over itself on a huge viaduct.:)
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Man how much was it to build that viaduct? ;) :p

Dietrich

more than any real railroad could afford:p took two viaduct splines stacked on top of each other too get it that high lol:p
UPDATE: from the mountains into the city
for a change of pace i decided to work on the city part of the layout,
first here are some pics of the standard gauge street car line not far from the carbarn crossing over the narrow gauge line
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and here is one of the hauptbahnhof (german for main train station) still needs a good bit of work but i like this shot:)
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Great stuff Nikos - love the shot with the tram on a reserve between the wall and a fence - great stuff :)

Andy...
 
That's fantastic.
I do have a question on that last tram shot. Do you have a road to match that that doesn't have the side walk? You might want to splice in a short section there to allow the trams to pass without having to climb the curbs.
Your scenery humbles me. I love that waterfall.

:cool: Claude
 
thanks Tokkyu40,:) yes its the default auran road, im thinking of replacing it with something better but ya ill make sure to leave a gap in the sidewalk when i redo it. I have found the flat tram track hard to work with as you cant really tell sometimes if the track is on the road or floating and i didnt even realize the bump caused by the sidewalk.:o
anyways UPDATE
The standard gauge tram line shares a carbarn with the U-Bahn system and trains from both are present. A variety of tram cars are present but the old cars are on borrowed time and some are being scrapped. in The second pic a diesel switcher pulls a old tram out of the carbarn for the last time to the scrapyard behind it.
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a U-Bahn train heads past an abandoned warehouse formerly served by the tram company which still serves a few other freight customers.
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An old tram trailer combo heads out of the carbarn and crosses over to access the tram line.
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and heads curves off onto the tram line
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meeting another car
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the other car then heads back to the carbarn
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