conrailfan1999
Long Live Big Blue
A few days ago I railfaned around the Hamlet mine branch. Sorry progress will be slower due to me starting high school!
The Alabama & Southeastern RR WIP Thread (Large Screenies)
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Southern1581
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Sweet shots there Oliver. I've gotten my second year of high school rolling. My next planned skin is looking like the Trainzstop SD75I. It'll be reskinned as A&SE SD77I 7700. A little background, 7700 started life as BNSF 8299. It suffered a massive engine failure in 2008 and was put up for sale in 2009, and was bought a month later by the A&SE. When the crew down in the Autumnville Shops took a look at them motor, they couldn't make heads or tails of it, it looked vaguely like someone had thrown a bomb in it. So they gutted out that old thing, and half a year later, the crew finished their first home-made prime mover, a 2 stroke 18 cylinder engine (A&SE classed it a 18N-745E2A) and after a bit of work, shoved it in 7700. They carried out an upgrade to her electrical system after that (the new engine was rated at 4750 hp as opposed to the original 4300 hp 710). She was quite a sight when she was shipped off to Montevallo for paint. She finally came out of the paint shop in fresh maroon in early 2011, and lead her first train, E799 southbound to Mobile, and has spent a majority of her life since then on the GSHL. Speaking of the GSHL, work has resumed on it, I'm working on the Jackson, Al. area on it (it's the halfway point on the route). Then it's 24 miles to the other end of the route, Tallahassee Fl. Then it's Bluewater's problem. But for now I have Algebra II homework to finish, so all that work is for later.
Southern1581
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Decided to give weathering another try on the SD46-3's. Pix were taken on the Hamlet Branch (which I'm missing 100 or so deps for). Turns out the capcity of the Hamlet Mine packed as full as it'll go is 64 cars. I'm going to expand it once I have all the deps so that it can handle the average 85 car C578 and C580 with ease (max capacity around 105).
AMTRAKwannabe
Norfolk & Western Lives
I will say, it's not the worst weathering job but it's not the best... I recommend this tutorial: Weathering Locomotives
montanawestren
meh..
Great work on that branch oliver, nice to see that my MTW locos on lease (for free) are put to good use :hehe:
Southern1581
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I've seen that tutorial before, I can't say the method really appeals to me, and I don't use photoshop. But it is a good tutorial with some good stuff in it. It really comes down to the skinner. I'll give it a try on the SD47's. I'll keep it if I like it, I'll do it the old way if I don't.
conrailfan1999
Long Live Big Blue
Hey thats a cool shot NSGUY!!!!
Southern1581
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I don't think the A&SE ever had a steam program... I'm interested to see where the 3555 goes from here. I'm slowly getting back to work on the GSHL, I've finished the halfway point, Jackson, Al., and have 5 1/2 mile of track laid past it. Sorry, no screenies.
conrailfan1999
Long Live Big Blue
More progress from yesterday! The town of Oakwood,AL is done where the Hamlet branch connects to the BNSF oak sub.(that is the blob on the left. The blob on the right is the Hamlet mine run.) In this picture you are looking south. I still have about 8 more miles of railroad to make east all the way to Bham, AL!
Southern1581
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Looks epic Oliver! Get some ground shots up soon!
Bad news, the SD77I isn't going to work, so the next skin is now going to be the RBMN SD40-2.
It'll be skinned as the following A&SE models:
SD40-2 (8500-8555 and 6899, which is an ex-FURX unit and is still un-repainted)
SD29-3 (2671-2699)
SD31-2 (1901-1902, yep, they'll be redone, they'll look better on a higher res map)
SD40-4 (9400-9404, in MOW paint)
SD39M (3838-3842)
SD36X-3 (9690-9699)
Bad news, the SD77I isn't going to work, so the next skin is now going to be the RBMN SD40-2.
It'll be skinned as the following A&SE models:
SD40-2 (8500-8555 and 6899, which is an ex-FURX unit and is still un-repainted)
SD29-3 (2671-2699)
SD31-2 (1901-1902, yep, they'll be redone, they'll look better on a higher res map)
SD40-4 (9400-9404, in MOW paint)
SD39M (3838-3842)
SD36X-3 (9690-9699)
AMTRAKwannabe
Norfolk & Western Lives
Can't the ex-FURX unit be one of the SD40-2's that SP_OR_BUST made?
Woah cant wait to see the new skins!
Southern1581
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They all look pretty much the same, save the black paint on 1901-1902 and the lime green MOW version of the standard scheme on our MOW units. They should look very nice, I already have the first one started.
Southern1581
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It could be, but I don't think that n8phu has upgraded them to TS12 specs and I've really been wanting to make a FURX unit for myself, plus by reskinning the JR RBMN SD40 I get some fun extra features, like the start/stop and the opening doors, fuel consumption, etc. I really love those units.
AMTRAKwannabe
Norfolk & Western Lives
Yes the FURX units work in TS12 without fix, I have them un-modified, but I see you point...
Yep, got a hole slew of leasers I have been given the green light to upgrade from different authors.....should be fun.
Southern1581
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Glad to hear, right now I'm having a parody of Slaby's "Skipping Out On Business Finance Homework Day". I think I'll call it "Skipping Out On An Annoying Health Project Day". Making a bit of progress on the A&SE SD40-2's (not the FURX patch, but the 8500-8555 series).
Southern1581
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Ooh goodie! Any HLCX in there, trainz is sorely lacking a freeware maroon and blue HLCX SD40-2. I might have to add that to my list...