smokeygear
C/LTJG - Operations
I don't know but the engine seems to have a greenish tint to me. Just a bit of creative criticism.
TUME’s Simulation of “The Milwaukee Road”
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Just a little late, but I come back to your Trailer Train Suggestion:
Yes, I have found the Trailer Cars and it looks very nice. In 1958 - the Milwaukee began its piggyback operations and improved it a lot in 1964. Still I have not found any photos of the 89ft Piggyback Trailer Carrier Cars used by the Milwaukee Road. But there are a lot of photos of 50ft flatcars, improved to serve as Piggyback Carriers. So I completed my series of flatcars like this by using the nice trailer loads from “legodragonxp” available at DLS.
Fireball573 provides four very nice TTX 89ft trailers and open it up for reskins in order to put it onto DLS. I would like to do so, if I would have any information how the Milwaukee Road 89ft trailers used to look like. But may be, the Milwaukee Road just did not own one of this trailers and served at least the customers by using the TTX cars. So, if anyone have any photos or information about that topic, it would be nice, see or to know.
50 ft Flatcars, been improved to serve as Piggybacks could often be seen, like here at Avery, Id.
Although competitors, it was not uncommon to see rolling stock or engines of the Milwaukee Road beside such from the Burlington Northern.
The C30’s and the U33’s are also very interesting, but this has to wait for the moment, but thanks for the suggestion, I will come back to it later, if not anybody else does it earlier.
Cheers TUME
Hello tume very nice that you used my idea for the piggyback flat cars and the Milwaukee trailers could be distinguished by the Alvaco "Preferred Pool" & a Giant "Preferred" and "45" writing on the side and were 45ft long and the reporting marks were MILZ and on the front of the trailer it had the Late Milwaukee road symbol and these trailers were a common sight on the piggyback trains from 1975 to the early 1990's.Also there is another trailer with just the Logo on the sides and the front of the trailer.
(Milwaukee Road trailer 1)
(Milwaukee Road trailer 2)
(Milwaukee Road trailer 3 Preferred 102")
(Milwaukee Road trailer 4 If you look close you can see the MILZ reporting marks.)
(Milwaukee Road trailer 1)
(Milwaukee Road trailer 2)
(Milwaukee Road trailer 3 Preferred 102")
(Milwaukee Road trailer 4 If you look close you can see the MILZ reporting marks.)
illinoiscentral
SARM Volunteer
Thank You transitguard.
Patience, son, patience.
CincySouthernRwy
Trainz Jedi
Just wanted to report back on the engine sound file for the FP45 from the DLS that you recommended in a previous post. I replaced the original EMD engine sound file (from Wulf9) on my C&O SD40's and plugged in yours, Tume. I wished I had done away with the air compressor sound file as it's loud and far too frequent. At low throttle notches it threatens to drown out the engine, but I digress.
I sat in the cab with three 7500's and 90 loads of coal. WOW! This is exactly how I remember EMD's sounding as a kid when I grew up alongside Chessie's rails in the 1970's and 1980's. It was a very nostalgic and exciting moment for me and I greatly anticipate replacing all 16-cylinder 645-engined turbocharged EMD's with this sound. It's the perfect blend of hum, throb, and whine.
I pulled my two daughters into my office to hear it... though they were not AS impressed as I... :hehe: "Daddy, we've heard this before. Can we go on our bike ride now?" :hehe:
Well done and thank you.
I sat in the cab with three 7500's and 90 loads of coal. WOW! This is exactly how I remember EMD's sounding as a kid when I grew up alongside Chessie's rails in the 1970's and 1980's. It was a very nostalgic and exciting moment for me and I greatly anticipate replacing all 16-cylinder 645-engined turbocharged EMD's with this sound. It's the perfect blend of hum, throb, and whine.
I pulled my two daughters into my office to hear it... though they were not AS impressed as I... :hehe: "Daddy, we've heard this before. Can we go on our bike ride now?" :hehe:
Well done and thank you.
Two more little videos - hope you will like it
During the last weeks a video contest have been caried out in this forum, founded by „bigboy4010“. I decided to post a contribution to the topics “electric trains” as well as “steam trains”. Some other creators also contributed really nice and very well made videos. But unfortunately, there was never an evaluation. Although done for the contest, I decided, to put this two videos also into this thread, just to concentrate my Milwaukee Road contributions on here and for all of you, who have not seen it jet – may you like it.
The great day of the Northerns
A video about Milwaukee Road's 4-8-4 S3 Northerns simulated for TRS. The video has mainly been shot at my Coast Division Simulation as well as at my Bitterroots Simulation of Milwaukee Road's transcontinental mainline. The scenes of the heritage train has been shot at an old UTC test route I once made but now been improved for this videos requirements. Have fun watching it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8E9PqsHaxA
Rocky Mountain Electrics
A remake of one of my earlier videos, made at my Milwaukee Road Simulation in the Bitterroots and now redone using the latest state of the simulation
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngc_Vb-2Y30
Cheers TUME
During the last weeks a video contest have been caried out in this forum, founded by „bigboy4010“. I decided to post a contribution to the topics “electric trains” as well as “steam trains”. Some other creators also contributed really nice and very well made videos. But unfortunately, there was never an evaluation. Although done for the contest, I decided, to put this two videos also into this thread, just to concentrate my Milwaukee Road contributions on here and for all of you, who have not seen it jet – may you like it.
The great day of the Northerns
A video about Milwaukee Road's 4-8-4 S3 Northerns simulated for TRS. The video has mainly been shot at my Coast Division Simulation as well as at my Bitterroots Simulation of Milwaukee Road's transcontinental mainline. The scenes of the heritage train has been shot at an old UTC test route I once made but now been improved for this videos requirements. Have fun watching it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8E9PqsHaxA
Rocky Mountain Electrics
A remake of one of my earlier videos, made at my Milwaukee Road Simulation in the Bitterroots and now redone using the latest state of the simulation
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngc_Vb-2Y30
Cheers TUME
applegathc
NoT tHe StAtUeS!
TUME, you are my hero. Now I can finally do some legitimate late 70s-early 80s one-TOFC-car-at-the-front-of-the-manifest trains..:hehe:
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This could be the environmental light at it, but you could be right. It is just hard to tell, without any comparison beside it. So I have to figure this out, as soon as I have a chance to work further at the 4-8-4 project. Thank you very much, creative criticism as yours is always welcome and helps, to get things better.
Cheers Uwe
Thank you for the compliment!
Hallo,
yes I agree, the compressor sound is just a bit to laud. But may be the problem comes from the sound arrangement of TRS itself. Sometimes, if there are too much sounds at one place, it starts to fail in several ways.
But thanks for the compliment you gave me. It is very nice to hear, that you felt like in a journey back in time
Well I must say all route and content creators are doing there enormous work in many hours of after work and weekend spare time just for there own joy. But of course such a nice feedback, as this from you, gives the feeling to us, that we are doing just a little more than devotedly working for our hobby.
Once, I had a very nice respond to one of my videos at myspace:
“Hi, I grew up just a few miles north of the Renslow trestle and I spent a lot of time between there and Doris during the early to mid 1980's. We used to ride motorcycles on the road parallel to the right of way, and after they removed the rails, we road right on the right of way. I traveled it from Ellensburg to the Beverly bridge many times. I was inside the substation at Doris a few years after electric operations shut down. I traveled through the tunnel near Boylston several times, until it caved in. I've crossed the Renslow trestle and even once dropped an old railroad tie from the top into the creek below (not the freeway!) -- it was quite a sight. Boylston used to have an old windmill and a hand dug well which was very dangerous. There was also a large set of livestock corrals just east of Boylston on top of the tunnel hill. They were used to load and unload cattle or sheep who ranged throughout the area. They drank from springs in the area but there otherwise was no water in the creeks except during the spring -- the mountains are not high enough and do not have trees to support an adequate watershed.
Anyway, aside from my nostalgic blabbering, I just wanted to say that your simulation and videos are absolutely astounding. They are just unbelieveably wonderful. I arrived on the scene too late to ever see the electric operations and you have given me my first glimpse. Thank you for your hard work!
-Martin“
You may can imagine, that it was a great pleasure for me to read this, as I never expected to meet the real area creating such an imagination in peoples mind.
So I just want to say – thank you to all of you, for your nice feedback, that pushes me forward and I think it will do so to all other content creators, if they get such respond.
Cheers TUME
Hallo,
yes I agree, the compressor sound is just a bit to laud. But may be the problem comes from the sound arrangement of TRS itself. Sometimes, if there are too much sounds at one place, it starts to fail in several ways.
But thanks for the compliment you gave me. It is very nice to hear, that you felt like in a journey back in time
Well I must say all route and content creators are doing there enormous work in many hours of after work and weekend spare time just for there own joy. But of course such a nice feedback, as this from you, gives the feeling to us, that we are doing just a little more than devotedly working for our hobby.
Once, I had a very nice respond to one of my videos at myspace:
“Hi, I grew up just a few miles north of the Renslow trestle and I spent a lot of time between there and Doris during the early to mid 1980's. We used to ride motorcycles on the road parallel to the right of way, and after they removed the rails, we road right on the right of way. I traveled it from Ellensburg to the Beverly bridge many times. I was inside the substation at Doris a few years after electric operations shut down. I traveled through the tunnel near Boylston several times, until it caved in. I've crossed the Renslow trestle and even once dropped an old railroad tie from the top into the creek below (not the freeway!) -- it was quite a sight. Boylston used to have an old windmill and a hand dug well which was very dangerous. There was also a large set of livestock corrals just east of Boylston on top of the tunnel hill. They were used to load and unload cattle or sheep who ranged throughout the area. They drank from springs in the area but there otherwise was no water in the creeks except during the spring -- the mountains are not high enough and do not have trees to support an adequate watershed.
Anyway, aside from my nostalgic blabbering, I just wanted to say that your simulation and videos are absolutely astounding. They are just unbelieveably wonderful. I arrived on the scene too late to ever see the electric operations and you have given me my first glimpse. Thank you for your hard work!
-Martin“
You may can imagine, that it was a great pleasure for me to read this, as I never expected to meet the real area creating such an imagination in peoples mind.
So I just want to say – thank you to all of you, for your nice feedback, that pushes me forward and I think it will do so to all other content creators, if they get such respond.
Cheers TUME
News and Questions about the SD40-2’s
Hallo,
here comes the latest screens about the new bogeys fort he SD40-2’s. The main texture may has to be a little changed, to make it more similar looking to the locomotive black. Also the gloss texture at the wheels still requires a little improvement. But for the first attempt after exporting from gmax, it should look not too bad
The texture itself has been worked out from real photos and the bogey mesh has a polygon number of 1812 including the wheels.
The SD40-2 itself have got a new tank mesh including a bit more details and a new tank texture as well, which needs to get a bit darker as it looks now. But even some more details needs to be worked out - the fuel indication for example. Also the loco mesh needs to be completed with some cables and tubes between the under frame and the bogey and the stairs at the front and the rear side of the locomotive have to be arranged the way, to get the first step tread a bit closer down to the tracks, rearranging the other step treads as needed. This is, as I originally used the mesh from Auran’s Art Course CD but at real photos, the stairs seems to be designed a little closer above the ground.
The two air horns at the middle of the cab, can stay with the simple mesh at its front plane, as the texture performs the impression of a deep hollowed tube quite well. In the opposite, to the square horns beside, which have been changed to get the hole performed by the mesh itself, as for some reason the texture could not create the imagination of a deep hollow inside the square horns using just a simple plane at its front side.
Last, but not least, I have a question. Does somebody know anything about the piece which I marked at the last photo? It is too big, as it could be ignored for the virtual model and I can create it, but I just would like to know, what it is. It seems, as it is located and connected to a tube – probably an air pipe coming from the air tanks above the diesel tank. Therefore it could be something like a safety relief valve, but I am not sure. Thanks for your help.
Like always helpful criticism is welcome.
Cheers TUME :wave:
Hallo,
here comes the latest screens about the new bogeys fort he SD40-2’s. The main texture may has to be a little changed, to make it more similar looking to the locomotive black. Also the gloss texture at the wheels still requires a little improvement. But for the first attempt after exporting from gmax, it should look not too bad
The texture itself has been worked out from real photos and the bogey mesh has a polygon number of 1812 including the wheels.
The SD40-2 itself have got a new tank mesh including a bit more details and a new tank texture as well, which needs to get a bit darker as it looks now. But even some more details needs to be worked out - the fuel indication for example. Also the loco mesh needs to be completed with some cables and tubes between the under frame and the bogey and the stairs at the front and the rear side of the locomotive have to be arranged the way, to get the first step tread a bit closer down to the tracks, rearranging the other step treads as needed. This is, as I originally used the mesh from Auran’s Art Course CD but at real photos, the stairs seems to be designed a little closer above the ground.
The two air horns at the middle of the cab, can stay with the simple mesh at its front plane, as the texture performs the impression of a deep hollowed tube quite well. In the opposite, to the square horns beside, which have been changed to get the hole performed by the mesh itself, as for some reason the texture could not create the imagination of a deep hollow inside the square horns using just a simple plane at its front side.
Last, but not least, I have a question. Does somebody know anything about the piece which I marked at the last photo? It is too big, as it could be ignored for the virtual model and I can create it, but I just would like to know, what it is. It seems, as it is located and connected to a tube – probably an air pipe coming from the air tanks above the diesel tank. Therefore it could be something like a safety relief valve, but I am not sure. Thanks for your help.
Like always helpful criticism is welcome.
Cheers TUME :wave:
Size of the browser window – used by the “Display Video” Rule
Hallo,
just does anybody knows a possibility to influent the size of the browser window – used by the “Display Video” Rule???
I just would like to create nice introduction videos and HTML pages for the sessions, I m working on.
It seems, the size of the browser window is fixed. :'(
But it would ne nice to change it to e size of about 960x720 pixel – just for the intro.
Thank you very much!
Cheers TUME :wave:
Hallo,
just does anybody knows a possibility to influent the size of the browser window – used by the “Display Video” Rule???
I just would like to create nice introduction videos and HTML pages for the sessions, I m working on.
It seems, the size of the browser window is fixed. :'(
But it would ne nice to change it to e size of about 960x720 pixel – just for the intro.
Thank you very much!
Cheers TUME :wave:
Tume,
I just wanted to congratulate you. A truly outstanding route on every level. Scenically breathtaking, technically clean and accurate. One of the few routes that really shows that Trainz can be considered to be a serious simulator and not just a virtual model railroad. This one really stands out from the crowd.
Many, many thanks for all your hard work, I salute you.
Stuart
I just wanted to congratulate you. A truly outstanding route on every level. Scenically breathtaking, technically clean and accurate. One of the few routes that really shows that Trainz can be considered to be a serious simulator and not just a virtual model railroad. This one really stands out from the crowd.
Many, many thanks for all your hard work, I salute you.
Stuart