Virginia, Tennessee, and Western

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AMTRAKwannabe

Norfolk & Western Lives
Virginia, Tennessee, and Western (WIP)

I have created a new fictional railroad serving the heart of American coal mining: Virginia, West Virginia, Tennessee, Ohio, Kentucky, Maryland, and other eastern coal hauling states. The railroad currently consists of patched units that will NEVER SEE THE LIGHT OF DAY, they are on payware locomotives, Southern1581 is currently making the paint scheme (which is still a surprise to me) and for now I have the base of a route started. Now, onto the screenshots!

 
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Eastern coal roads are generally in the Appalachian basin aren't they? As in, you know, the Appalachian Mountains. I know they're not as impressive as the Rockies, but I think you are selling them just a little short.
 
I know, I have mountains are being sculpted:



Our paint scheme(courtesy of southern1581):
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try removing spline next to J46 move spline next to J44 closer to spline by J42, and then straighten that small space between the two, then finagle the splines to throw the curve out rightly
 
Those massive shear cuts are going to be hard to texture correctly and they don't fit the look of the region. Honestly, even if you are doing a fictional road you should grab a DEM of a sample area just to get the terrain right. It will save you a lot of time in the future. Since the Appalachians are broad and wide remnants of an ancient mountain chain it will be hard to get the correct look using the terrain tools in Trainz. Consider one that I am familiar with, High Knob, which covers an 800 sq km area but only reaches a height of roughly 1300m. You'll find similar examples all up through from North Carolina to Pennsylvania. Then that range is cut through with small streams and creeks to form the characteristic "hollers" where you can nestle in your tipples, yards, and communities. You do have gorges here and there, such as the Breaks on the VA/KY border or the New River Gorge in WV, but these are atypical geographic features and don't really have the same type of shear near vertical drops for great distances like you see in the canyons out west. So, to summarize, make or download a DEM of a particular area otherwise it just isn't going to look right.
 
VT&W?

Not a bad idea....

What I would suggest the same advice Tony Koester gives in his book "The Allegheny Midland: Lessons learned"

Pull out a map and start lookig over the area that your railroad will run through. Look at town names, topography and plan from there...

You may have to make a custom DEM, but at least it will be realistic.
 
AMTRAKwannabe said:
Do you know of a DEM in Tennessee?
Click to expand...

Look for FISHLIPSATWORK on the DLS... he has a few.

EDIT: Here we go:

Hopkinsville KY south to Nashville TN

https://www.auran.com/TRS2004/DLS_viewasset.php?AssetID=45083


Cookeville TN east to Harriman TN

https://www.auran.com/TRS2004/DLS_viewasset.php?AssetID=52357


Cookeville, TN east to Monterey, TN

https://www.auran.com/TRS2004/DLS_viewasset.php?AssetID=52358


Monterey, TN to Wilder, TN

https://www.auran.com/TRS2004/DLS_viewasset.php?AssetID=52359


Evansville, IN south to Hopkinsville, KY

https://www.auran.com/TRS2004/DLS_viewasset.php?AssetID=45082
 
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The route looks great !

Laying a yard throat on a curve is kinda tough ... it requires a series of straightened, very short, slightly overlapping, figure "8" sections of track, just prior to the turnout spline point (and all he rest of the track is curved). Someone with TS12 can help you iron the curved yard throat out at a later date. I measure my turnouts, and place them @ every 40m apart.
 
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