This is my first blog, so I'm not that familiar with blogs. Anyway, it's 10:20 at night and we're getting hammered by a really bad storm. It's been thundering and lightning every minute. So I've been spending time spending time on Trainz and the Forums. Right now I've got three projects going on, doing each one at different times. I'm working on 'modified' versions of the Municipal Trainsit Railway route and Highland Valley Steam Era route, along with my own 'proto-freelanced' version of the Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum. I'm heading up there tomorrow, and hopefully Southern 630 will be up and running.
My version of the Muncipal Transit Railway is renamed 'Municipal Terminal Railway'. It's focused on the yard and the industrial areas around the yard. By yard I mean the yard that is located near the entrance of the stub-ended passenger station. I've placed 'Multiple Industry New,' 'Multi Ind str l= 60m EN,' and 'Multi Ind str l= 10m EN' at various buildings, i.e. warehouses. I've also placed these pieces at the container terminal. After completeing that, I felt like having some fun with the streetcar lines: turning them into a CABLE CAR network. I was finally done with converting the streetcar network to cable car network today. It took me a long time, but then when I went into 'Quickdrive,' I learned the hard way that that was a bad idea: I forgot that cable cars travel very slowly, like say, nine miles an hour.
My version of the Highland Valley Steam Era route, named 'Appalachian Southern' is set in the southern Appalachians during the transition era, allowing me to run first-generation diesels (F units, E units, etc.) along with steam locomotives. I deleted the large steel mill and the associated tracks and flattened the area it was located, which I plan on being turned into a industrial area. All the track has been replaced with the track used on the Mojave Sub route. I also have been using the fixed switches used on the Belinzo-Mosti route and the HOTT Trainz route to create switches with more realistic geometry used on the prototype. It's mostly completed, but there's still work to be done.
My version of the Tennessee Valley Rairoad Museum, named 'East Tennessee Railway Museum,' features a similar track plan, but with a larger station (CNR Stratford Station) at Grand Junciton than in reality. Having at a large station is more approiate for a place named 'Grand Junction'. This is also the route that I've made the least amount of progress on. Both the East Tennessee Railway Museum and the Appalachian Southern Norfork & Western CPL signals.
Well, it has stopped thundering and lightning (but with my luck, by the time I get in the bed or this is posted on the Blogs it will start thundering and lightning again. In other words, I'll having a hard time sleeping tonight.), so I guess I'll be signing off for the night. Goodbye and I'll try to remenber to write some more tomorrow when I get home.
My version of the Muncipal Transit Railway is renamed 'Municipal Terminal Railway'. It's focused on the yard and the industrial areas around the yard. By yard I mean the yard that is located near the entrance of the stub-ended passenger station. I've placed 'Multiple Industry New,' 'Multi Ind str l= 60m EN,' and 'Multi Ind str l= 10m EN' at various buildings, i.e. warehouses. I've also placed these pieces at the container terminal. After completeing that, I felt like having some fun with the streetcar lines: turning them into a CABLE CAR network. I was finally done with converting the streetcar network to cable car network today. It took me a long time, but then when I went into 'Quickdrive,' I learned the hard way that that was a bad idea: I forgot that cable cars travel very slowly, like say, nine miles an hour.
My version of the Highland Valley Steam Era route, named 'Appalachian Southern' is set in the southern Appalachians during the transition era, allowing me to run first-generation diesels (F units, E units, etc.) along with steam locomotives. I deleted the large steel mill and the associated tracks and flattened the area it was located, which I plan on being turned into a industrial area. All the track has been replaced with the track used on the Mojave Sub route. I also have been using the fixed switches used on the Belinzo-Mosti route and the HOTT Trainz route to create switches with more realistic geometry used on the prototype. It's mostly completed, but there's still work to be done.
My version of the Tennessee Valley Rairoad Museum, named 'East Tennessee Railway Museum,' features a similar track plan, but with a larger station (CNR Stratford Station) at Grand Junciton than in reality. Having at a large station is more approiate for a place named 'Grand Junction'. This is also the route that I've made the least amount of progress on. Both the East Tennessee Railway Museum and the Appalachian Southern Norfork & Western CPL signals.
Well, it has stopped thundering and lightning (but with my luck, by the time I get in the bed or this is posted on the Blogs it will start thundering and lightning again. In other words, I'll having a hard time sleeping tonight.), so I guess I'll be signing off for the night. Goodbye and I'll try to remenber to write some more tomorrow when I get home.