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[TD] Hallo BobCass,
you created a fictional heavy duty Railroad operated by Bigboys to a place somewhere above the tree line - that's pretty cool.
Regarding your screens during the last time - I conclude you just like RR in the high Mountains very much.
So what about creation of a fictional Railroad but using a real terrain?
My suggestion:
A rail line from Kathmandu to the Mount Everest Base Camp, Khumjung, Eastern Region in Nepal?
This would be quite a challenge. The direct distance is about 200 Kilometers and you need to climb up from about 1400 Meters to 5500 Meters
I saw a TV-report saying that hundreds of "tourists" are about to climb up the Mount Everest. Therefore such a rail connection could be useful to get the people and the required material to the camp and back. And don't forget to add a special car to your trains that carries all the waste back which is all around the camp due to too much people up there
Your's TUME
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[TD] Hallo BobCass,
you created a fictional heavy duty Railroad operated by Bigboys to a place somewhere above the tree line - that's pretty cool.
Regarding your screens during the last time - I conclude you just like RR in the high Mountains very much.
So what about creation of a fictional Railroad but using a real terrain?
My suggestion:
A rail line from Kathmandu to the Mount Everest Base Camp, Khumjung, Eastern Region in Nepal?
This would be quite a challenge. The direct distance is about 200 Kilometers and you need to climb up from about 1400 Meters to 5500 Meters
I saw a TV-report saying that hundreds of "tourists" are about to climb up the Mount Everest. Therefore such a rail connection could be useful to get the people and the required material to the camp and back. And don't forget to add a special car to your trains that carries all the waste back which is all around the camp due to too much people up there
Your's TUME
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Interesting that you mention that Tume, I am doing something along those lines right now. Not anything as crazy as Everest but I love trying to build a routes on blank DEM's, this is the current project, the Sierra Vista & Benson railroad which climbs from the flatland town of Sierra Vista,AZ over the Coronado Mountains to the Mexican border near Parker Canyon lake. The route has a maximum grade of 3.5 and features 6 switchbacks and a spiral to climb approximately 500 meters. Of course in real life the railroads continued south through the flat river valley like any sensible person would do, but wheres the fun in that!
Here the daily mixed crosses one of the many trestles on the line with 4 loads of sulfuric acid and a string of empty rock hoppers.
Here the daily mixed crosses one of the many trestles on the line with 4 loads of sulfuric acid and a string of empty rock hoppers.
montanawestren
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Lookin' good there nikos!
Some M&NE Berks double head on a coal drag and pass another Berk, which is being prepped for a run up the Rocky Creek branch.
Some M&NE Berks double head on a coal drag and pass another Berk, which is being prepped for a run up the Rocky Creek branch.
colorado71
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Trainman10
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colorado71
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Wow. Just wow. That looks amazing, Niko! Keep up the good work! That looks like a good route for testing new goodies on, as well as a little challenge for heavier trains. Will it be released?
Keep on truckin',
colorado71
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cascaderailroad
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I used to go camping every Autumn @ the 15th of October ... And it faithfully rained for 2 weeks straight, every year. Camping in a tent, with your one shoulder on a knarley root of a tree, and a sharp uncomfortable rock right in the middle of your back. You wake up cold, wet, dirty and miserable, with Daddy Log Legs all over the inside of your tent, feeling like you been pulled through a knot hole. Stinking of campfire smoke, as the 5 kids right next door are trying to start a wet campfire, using 2 wet Pittsburgh tele-o-phone books, and a quart of Boy Scout fluid (charcoal starter). NO fun !
So I built a camper ... It rained even more ... than prior years before !
If there is a dry summer drought, and the temps are too cold, the leaves are all yellow / brown ... Only one year, out of all of them, we went to the Horseshoe Curve, and the weather had been perfect all year long ... the leaves were ablaze with reds, orange, yellow, green ... that night winds whipped up to 45 mph, with 40F temps, knocking 90% of the leaves off overnight.
Your Fall screenshots remind me of that once perfect Autumn day !
It is cold, wet, and damp again ... And soon the winter weather will kill all the bugz ... A steep price to pay, in order to get rid of "Skeeters" !
The Wopsy RR
So I built a camper ... It rained even more ... than prior years before !
If there is a dry summer drought, and the temps are too cold, the leaves are all yellow / brown ... Only one year, out of all of them, we went to the Horseshoe Curve, and the weather had been perfect all year long ... the leaves were ablaze with reds, orange, yellow, green ... that night winds whipped up to 45 mph, with 40F temps, knocking 90% of the leaves off overnight.
Your Fall screenshots remind me of that once perfect Autumn day !
It is cold, wet, and damp again ... And soon the winter weather will kill all the bugz ... A steep price to pay, in order to get rid of "Skeeters" !
The Wopsy RR
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colorado71
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colorado71
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Thank you.
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generalman
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