The Frisco High Line
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CWeis, do me a favor: light a fire under some of those folks to get their Russian Decapod looking presentable, Ok?
Doubt it will work
Nice observation Ed. I'll try to post some pics of it later today. There was a fair amount of kit bashing involved.
I want to do a couple of branchline routes myself but what is hard to get is the track diagrams, industuries, etc on the lines I want to make because so much time has passed & its all gone and these are out of state lines so going to the library is out for information is out of the question. I see with your route you have a good source of information & pictures for doing your route which helps alot & makes it as close to the real thing as it can get. Look forward to seeing the routes release hope it close.
There's more information out there than you think. I'm lucky because I've made contact with a some Frisco experts who have a large collection of material from old employees. Another great source of industries and track diagrams of towns all over the U.S. is Sanborn Maps. This was a company that mapped towns to great detail for insurance companies. Just do a google search and you'll get a bunch of results. Most of the maps have been digitized and are available through public libraries across the United States.
Thanks. I was hoping to mimic the kilns with the buried stacks. Maybe I didn't do to good of a job if I left you confused...
I had to piece that together from E Bay magnification photos. Those kilns are called "Beehive Kilns" and are still used in industry today. Quite an operation, besides the goods to ship on Standard Gauge, they also had to take in coal (assumption) for the on property power plant, then probably ship out the ash and cinders (unless it was used in the manufacturing process). In addition, the clay was taken locally from the farmland, and I'm wondering if they had a NG operation set up for that? I notice they had two sizes of those Beehive kilns, and then some pre-kilns of a different shape at the end of the factory as well.
All in all, quite ambitious a model, but on the plus side, it does provide an industry for your route!
No fair running two threads, you got me! Anyway, I'm just trying to help. I looked at different silos on the DLS today, and there are a few that may serve better than what you're using for the kilns, if they were reskinned. Alternately I'm thinking that some of the silo's roofs could be reskinned, and placed inside the asset you're using now to finish it off. May I ask what the kuid of that asset is so I can mess around, or do you prefer that I "step off"?
Not at all Ed I appreciate the help <kuid:439337:100864>. I didn't even know they were kilns until you mentioned that.
I cloned my own without smoke effects and it's not on the DLS yet. I never thought about the silo idea but that sounds perfect. Feel free to play with the kuid above. You could probably come up with something really good.
Well thanks! It's a small detail, but without reskinning anything, and using objects on the DLS only, I came up with this after some height adjustments:
I did look at different silos, but they were too wide to suit the purpose, and the roof of the silos generally overhang the walls. The smokestack you've chosen already replicates the "banded brick" texture pretty well, the trick is getting that dome on the top. I'm not sure if it's a loose material, or a rigid covering.
I did look at different silos, but they were too wide to suit the purpose, and the roof of the silos generally overhang the walls. The smokestack you've chosen already replicates the "banded brick" texture pretty well, the trick is getting that dome on the top. I'm not sure if it's a loose material, or a rigid covering.
