The Tay Rail Bridge

[oobydooby]

Spent time over two years laying out a route over the Forth Rail bridge through Fife and into Dundee (Scotland). This included all the branch lines from around the 1930's to the end of British Steam Era as well as all the mines and industrial lines in a circle from Edinburgh to Dundee and onto Perth and back to Edinburgh.

Unfortunately my hard drive failed and I and computer recovery bods were unable to retrieve my work.

I am starting again from scratch and I Originally had a model (asset) of the Tay Rail bridge which I found online, but am unable to locate where it came from. I would really appreciate any help in finding this elusive item, or some useful pointers into where it is.

Yes, I really don't mind if you say "You should have backed it all up!", that would serve as a reminder for me not to do the same thing again!!!!

 

[Bill69]

Hi oobydooby,

Is this the one you are thinking of? It looks fairly close to the Tay bridge.
Builtin item in TS2009.

Cheers,
Bill69

 

[oobydooby]

No Bill, sorry, it is specifically the Tay bridge with 15 central arches and the curve as it runs into the Dundee end. It's the complete thing not a spline.

Thanks for the suggestion though.

 

[nexusdj]

It's on the DLS by Bendorsey . Either search his username or do a search for the word "Tay" or for kuid : 210518:8436:1

Make sure you tick the trainz 2004 build box before you hit the search button .

 

[NikkiA]

It's on the DLS by Bendorsey . Either search his username or do a search for the word "Tay" or for kuid : 210518:8436:1

Make sure you tick the trainz 2004 build box before you hit the search button .

Pretty sure ben has modelled both tay bridges (the 1879 disaster one, and the modern one), and of course superbly as ever

And no, I'm wrong, he's modelled all 3:

Tay bridge 1 is the pre-1879 bridge,
Tay bridge 2 is the bridge as rebuilt
Tay bridge 3 has the curved concrete section that redirects the landing point, as it stands today

Tay River Bridge 1,<kuid2:210518:8419:2>
Tay River Bridge 2,<kuid2:210518:8412:2>
Tay River Bridge 3,<kuid2:210518:8436:1>

 

[Bill69]

I should have guessed bendorsey would have modeled it, he has modeled just about every other bridge I can think of.

Great work Ben.

Cheers,
Bill69

 

[oobydooby]

Thanks for your help folks, I must say Bendorsey has been very prolific in his work. Thanks to him also.

 

[bendorsey]

Thanks for your help folks, I must say Bendorsey has been very prolific in his work. Thanks to him also.

Thanks for the kind words guys. Please keep in mind the Tay River Bridge is so darn big (over 15,000 ft long) Trainz has a difficult time rendering it. One end (the straight end with the wye) sometimes dissappears from view from one direction but not the other. It doesn't cause a derailment but it definately looks weird. I've finally come to the conclusion its due to the fact that end of the bridge is so far from the Gmax axis origin (X, Y, Z = 0 ft 0.0 in) Trainz doesn't like it. The other (curved) end isn't as far away so doesn't dissappear. I've run into this once more but it was correctable - the Tay is not (just too darn big, lol).

Enjoy,

Ben

 

[ct_krogen]

rember to back up your lay outsas a cdp,,,,when youget done adding on to it..

 

[oobydooby]

I agree the Tay bridge is big, but my steam driven computer seemed to handle it pretty well (windows 7, 64bit, dual core..etc). The worst part was placing it, as whenever I clicked mouse on it to move it, it tended to scoot off in all directions.

And I have learned my lesson now..back up..back up and just in case...back up again.

Thanks again all.