UP Bailey Yard plans and Information
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I think it has been attempted one time, and it has become vaporware... We have to remember that Baliey is the largest hump yard/classification yard in the world... It takes up an area of about 8 square miles.... If I remember right, it has 394 tracks and can hold more than 10 mile long trains on tie downs.. It can refuel 8 trains at a time. It's a piece of art. One day I plan to get over there and see how massive it truly is, because what you read, see in pictures in videos don't do the true operations justice.
In real life, as Chris says, that yard is huge! I had a chance to cross over the lead as we traveled out of North Platte on our way up to the Sand Hills to do some severe storm chasing. I could see the strings, upon strings of freight cars when we went over. I made sure I had a window seat and was paying attention to catch a glimpse. 
North Platte has promoted the yard as a tourist attraction and there is even a foot bridge and viewing tower for people that want to see it.
The thing is with Trainz a yard this big will become a slide-fest due to the long continuous tracks, and this will become worse when consists are added on top of that.
John
North Platte has promoted the yard as a tourist attraction and there is even a foot bridge and viewing tower for people that want to see it.The thing is with Trainz a yard this big will become a slide-fest due to the long continuous tracks, and this will become worse when consists are added on top of that.
John
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The track would probably have to be low poly, like chunky mesh: MP Track Wood v2 by Philskene, or MP Rusty.
Was working on my 8700 rail car classification hump yard again today ... coming soon
Was working on my 8700 rail car classification hump yard again today ... coming soon
It is really a piece of art. I was able to go the last summer and, it was amazing! The 8 story viewing tower is just amazing, you are so high up, you can ALMOST see it all! I
counted 12 locomotive movements at one time, just incredible.
I was thinking of using Jointed Rail Track and also just using Jointed rail rollingstock
But until I get a good site plan I am stock
I was wondering if there was anybody here on trains living in the USA close to this yard
They might be able to help me out
If you can this would be neat And I would be very grateful
If you are able to help me please PM me and I well give you my Email adress
Chris Sullivan
NEW ZEALAND
But until I get a good site plan I am stock
I was wondering if there was anybody here on trains living in the USA close to this yard
They might be able to help me out
If you can this would be neat And I would be very grateful
If you are able to help me please PM me and I well give you my Email adress
Chris Sullivan
NEW ZEALAND
I think once TANE arrives, it will change, and you could possibly run it. Right now, Trainz doesn't take full advantage of your PC resources. With that, we know a yard at that size needs plenty of resources available to make it run smooth.
If I were going to attempt this, I would invest in TransDEM, and georeference the TransDEM data with google Earth. Without looking, I know that the yard would lend itself to building it in parts; I would look for obvious "seams" to use to divide it. I've absolutely no doubt that, even if T:ANE won't run a route containing the yard, that at some point down the road, a version of Trainz will be able to run it, and if you start building it now, you just might have it done about the time a version of Trainz can run it.
But also, maybe you could be a successor collaborator to the work Mikeaust started.
ns
But also, maybe you could be a successor collaborator to the work Mikeaust started.
ns
I started work on the Bailey Yard quite a long time ago on Trainz 2006 but quit.
Even on a high end machine that can handle maxed out draw distances and detail, you just cant see far enough down the 11+ mile long yard to keep from getting lost.
I am very good at laying track (hills not so much) but anything other than chunky mesh track with small textures will bring even a high end machine to its knees.
I also found that most of the hills surrounding the yard are outside of trainz draw distance, so there wouldn't need to be too much focus on the terrain anyway; you could mask half of the yard with the nearby town.
I visited the Bailey Yard in 2008, then got the idea to try it in trainz.
I still have the 80,000+ px image map I made to lay down as a track template somewhere.
(trainz cant use it - I break it up into 1024 px flats to put in trainz)
Even on a high end machine that can handle maxed out draw distances and detail, you just cant see far enough down the 11+ mile long yard to keep from getting lost.
I am very good at laying track (hills not so much) but anything other than chunky mesh track with small textures will bring even a high end machine to its knees.
I also found that most of the hills surrounding the yard are outside of trainz draw distance, so there wouldn't need to be too much focus on the terrain anyway; you could mask half of the yard with the nearby town.
I visited the Bailey Yard in 2008, then got the idea to try it in trainz.
I still have the 80,000+ px image map I made to lay down as a track template somewhere.
(trainz cant use it - I break it up into 1024 px flats to put in trainz)