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pagroove said:

It depends on which version you create but 35KM equals about 1 year of work. ............

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True. But finish date also depends on when I started. I am also constantly switching from one route to another to keep from getting into a rut. When that happens I tend to overdetail in one area and skimp of others. The 35 KM route is rather rural, so no skyscraper buildings and lots of trees to replicate everywhere.

Bill

pagroove said:

Nice pics @Rowletmaster. Looks busy. .

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thanks!
gonna take more

so um

guys i finished watching demon slayer movie, the mugen train one.

and as people would know. the kyushu's 8620 i think a few weeks ago it wear the mugen train sign on the head.

as from the movie. the mugen train locomotive should be base on 8630 or 8620. since they are the same class of locomotive.

so i am curious. will is there anybody making the mugen train/8630/8620 to be trainz?

i think i found a way to make Multi Track Drifting. using a modified version of Vulcans Aircraft scripts.
i cannot script at all but the aircraft script uses extra meshes and animations when a key is pressed like B it triggers the animation
can anyone look into this and reply?

Train action at Sumoto Station

nice pics Jdriver. The people look very detailed. I take it this is the trainz 2019 version?

Thanks. This is Trainz A New Era I took the shots in. The people are really well detailed. They where made by Sholborn. They got a lot of detailed people

Very nice pics Driver. I love those people. Sumoto is looking nice and busy. Got some sunset/sunrise pics to ? .

Some are on the Electro Island, but I am trying my best to get some Sunrise and sunset pictures

The E235 Series makes it's first run on the Rapid service
Just like the other trains, This train will have door buttons (even though there is no door buttons) Green Cars, automatic announcements, and newer announcement voices. The Voices for the E231, E233 and E531 Series are Sayaka (Japanese) and Sharon (english) and the E235 Series voice are going to be Misaki (Japanese) and Tracy (english). The E235 is expected to replace the remaining 205 Series that are running on the Local and Express services.

Local Service use 5 Cars. Express Service uses 8 Cars (sometimes 4+4 Sets) and Rapid Service use 10+3 Sets

Very nice pics @Jdriver .

Happy holidays to you all and hoping next year be better than this one!!

@pagroove Thanks
@Railshuttle Same to you. This year has been something

Happy christmas eve to evryone!

I have a bit of a surprise coming very soon...

Here's a little hint:



(if you find out don't spoil it to the others!)

Happy Holidays to everyone!

Bill

Merry christmas from Italy evryone!

As i mentioned yesterday, i have a present for you all - it's something that many desired for a long time and i'm sure it will make even more happy: the 100 Series Shinkansen!



JNR/JR Central/JR West blue livery on the left and the JR West lime green and dark grey livery for San'yo Shinkansen Kodama services on the right.

First of all, a Disclaimer: the cab car units of this pack might appear very similar to a Sketchup 3D model made by Satojii458, and avaible on the Sketchup warehouse. This is because i used Satojii458's model as reference for the nose shape and for other details. I did not convert directly his model into trainz. I did try to contact him a while ago to ask for permission to do a conversion, but as i got no reply, i've decided to go the longer but safer way. The models do indeed look similar, but there are several differences; for example, the nose cone is slightly shorter in my model. Furthemore, all of the intermediate cars are 100% my work.
Again, (in case the model's author reads this thread) i did not convert directly his model into trainz. I used his model only as a reference for the mesaurments and the complex shapes.

If Satojii458 has any issues with this current pack, he can contact me anytime and i will comply with any of his requests.

With that out of the way, all four versions are already avaible on my website.

Here for the JNR version, here for the JR Central version, here for the JR West blue-white livery and here for the JR West dark grey and lime green Kodama services livery.

In case of missing dependencies for the Kodama lime green livery sets, download this.

So, the 100 Series was the last Shinkansen train designed by JNR, entering service in 1985. They were intended to replace the 2nd batch of 0 Series sets, wich were manufactured in the mid-1970s (the 1st batch of 0 Series sets had already been replaced by the last batch of 0 Series sets, wich had been manufactured until 1986), and had begun to show clear signs of premature metal fatigue, caused by the continuos pressure changes when entering and exiting the many tunnels on the San'yo and especially the Tokaido Shinkansen.

Originally, JNR had intended to continue the production of 0 Series sets, with the introduction of yet another improved batch (having produced, and still manufacturing 0s for 20 straight years at the time), but as rolling stock technology had considerably improved over the last 20 years, JNR finally settled for an entirely new design, to be introduced on both the San'yo and Tokaido Shinkansen.

Classified 100 Series, the new Shinkansen trains were conceptually based on the lastest-batch 0 Series, but incorporated several technical fetaures from the much more advanced 200 Series for the Tohoku Shinkansen, wich had been introduced just a few years earlier, in 1982.

However, the most striking change was made in the exterior design: as by the early 1980s the 0 Series was no longer the image of the "world's fastest train", having been replaced by the striking orange of the French TGV PSE; JNR attempted to win that "image" back with the 100 Series by designing a slightly sharper nose with more-modern-looking horizontal headlights. These were permanently "white", but had an translucent red filter that was electrically lowered "curtain-style" to change the headlights color from white to red, making them taillights.

Another notable fetaure of the 100 Series was the introduction of two double decker cars in the middle of the consist- the first for a Shinkansen train: one was a panoramic buffet car and the other was a reserved-seating "Green Car".
Besides the standard blue-and-white livery, the two bilevel cars fetaured a sylized red "NS" ("New Shinkansen") logo on their sides; this was later removed upon the privatization of JNR.

Last, but not least, the 100 Series saw a brief return to the wide passenger windows, instead of the tiny aereoplane-like ones used on later-batch 0 Series sets to combat metal fatigue. As we know, after the 100 Series all Tokaido and San'yo Shinkansen trains went back to the small windows, starting with the 300 Series in 1992.

The iconic look of the 0 Series was kept, but updated in almost evry single aspect.

The design was finalized in 1984, and in the same year, produtction of the fist prototype set, formation X-1, began. The set was completd in early 1985 and began a series of trial runs on the Tokaido Shinkansen starting from the 27th of March of the same year. 100 Series regular revenue services began on the 1st of October 1985, when the X-1 prototype started running some Hikari services.

Full production sets eventually entered service starting from the 13th of June 1986. Like the prototype sets, these were manufactured by a consortium made of Hitachi, Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Kinki Sharyo, Nippon Sharyo and Tokyu Car Corporation, the créme de la créme of Japanese rolling stock manufacturers.

The full-production sets initially entered service without the double-decker cars; classified as G-formations and assigned to Tokaido Shinkansen Kodama services, they recieved the two double decker cars in November 1986 and were reclassified as X-formations and reassigned to faster Hikari services.
Eventually, by the time JNR was privatized in 1987, a total of seven plus one 16-car sets had been manufactured, with subsequent orders for the 100 Series being placed by the successors of JNR: JR Central and JR West.

JR Central was first, ordering a further 50 sets, classified as G-Formations. These were nearly identical to the X-formations, but without the buffet car, wich was replaced by another double-deck green car. JR West followed suit, ordering nine 16-car sets, classified as V-Formations for use on special "Grand Hikari" services. Nearly identical to JR Central's G-formations, JR West's Grand Hikari had 4 double-deck green cars instead of only two.

By 1992, when production of the 100 Series ended, a total of sixty-six 16-car 100 Series sets were in service, divided between JR Central (for Tokaido Shinkansen services) and JR West (for San'yo Shinkansen services).

While fast, comfortable and reliable, the 100 Series was well obsolete even before it entered service: in true JNR style (wich favoured well-proven solutions over innovative ones) the technical equipment, especially the electric one, was changed very little from the one of the original 0 Series sets of 1964.

Therefore, both JR Central and JR West started to jointly design an entirely new Shinkansen train, ditching as much former JNR influence as possible. The result of this design effort became the 300 Series, wich entered service in 1992, the same year that 100 Series production stopped.

The 300 Series was a radical departure from the JNR-designed Shinkansens, with it's energy-saving GTO-VVVF inverter control and the curved wedge front profile, replacing the aereoplane-like round one of older types. Entering service on Nozomi and Hikari serviceson both the San'yo and Tokaido Shinkansen, the 300 Series gradually displaced the 100 Series to slower Kodama services, replacing the lastest-batch 0 Series, wich were completely retired from Tokaido Shinkansen duties in 1999.

Eventually, with the introduction of the 700 Series in 1997, JR Central decided to finally replace all remaining 100 Series sets in service on the Tokaido Shinkansen. Set G49 was the last 100 Series set in service on the Tokaido Shinkansen, being retired on the 16th of December 2003.

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On the San'yo Shinkansen instead, due to JR West being far less wealthy than JR Central, 100 Series survived relatively longer, being completely reassigned to Kodama services by the early 2000s. As these services have a far lower ridership than the faster Hikari and Nozomi services, starting from 2000, JR West's 100 Series sets were shortened to 6 and even 4-car sets. At the same time they were repainted in a distinctive dark grey and lime green livery, intended to distinguish trains running Kodama services from those running Hikari and Nozomi services, wich kept the blue-white livery. A similar treatment was also applied to some of the remaining 0 Series sets, wich were also shortened to 6-cars and repainted in the dark grey and lime green livery. Three of these K-formations were eventually returned to their original blue-white livery in 2010.

By the mid-2000s, a total of twelve 4-car "P-formations" and six 6-car "K-formations" was obtained by rearranging 100 Series sets. These did not have double-decker cars nor green cars (of any kind: single or double-deck): all of these, togheter with the rest of the surplus cars, were scrapped.

Eventually, with the arrival of yet more and more 700 Series sets, taking over the Nozomi and Hikari services, the 300 and even the 500 Series were cascaded to Kodama services to replace the remaining ageing 0 and 100 Series sets, with the last 0 Series set being retired from service in late 2008.
Three years later, the last 4-car P-formation 100 Series was retired, with the last run on the 11th of March 2011. One year later, the last 6-car K-formation was retired as well, with the last run on the 16th of March 2012, bringing the career of the 100 Series to an end.

Upon retirement from regular services, set P-2 (one of the 4-car P-formations) was moved to JR West's Shinkansen training center at Shimonoseki, where it was used as a dedicated training set until March 2013.

As of today, no 100 Series set is in service anymore, but three cars have been preserved: one cab car from set K-54 (formerly set V-3), preserved at JR West's Kyoto Railway Museum, and one cab car from set X-2 and one double-decker buffet car from set X-1, preserved at JR Central's SCMaglev and railway park in Nagoya.



Trivia Section!

Trivia#1

Comfort-wise, the 100 Series Shinkansen was designed under the concept of "passengers first, railwaymen second"


Trivia#2

At just four cars in length, JR West's P-formations for Kodama services are the current holders of the title of "shortest Shinkansen in regular active service" (including the mini-shinkansen serieses and the "Doctor yellow" inspection trains).


Trivia#3

Due to it's sharp looks, compared to the earlier 0 Series, for the short period while it was the newest Shinkansen type, the 100 Series enjoyed a relative popularity, being fetaured in many different movies and anime (notably City Hunter and Case Closed!/Detective Conan, where episode 5 of the original 1996 season, "the bullet train bombing cases" completely revolves around a 100 Series set).

100 Series trains are also primarily fetaured in JR Central's famous X'MAS EXPRESS series of commercials from the late 1980s and early 1990s, quite fitting for today.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zK_eX4Oe5kA&ab_channel=nv850hd3


Trivia#4

The morning of the living dead! A very rare recording of training set P-2, in quite a dire state, crawling thru the sidings of Shin-Shimonoseki station.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDpXxt0fkH8&ab_channel=朝日新聞社


Trivia#5

The "Hint" i've sent earlier about this model is the stylized "NS" ("New Shinkansen") logo that was applied to the double-decker cars of 100 Series sets during the JNR era. These were later removed upon the privatization of JNR.


Model Trivia#1

My first Shinkansen 3D model.

Again, merry christmas everyone!

But it's not finished here! There's still an extra variant of the 100 Series coming soon!

@AlexMaria Super work! I always loved the 100 Series, and now it's finally in Trainz! Thank you verry much!

@everyone Happy Holidays!

Here are some screenshots featuring the JR Central Tokaido Line between Obu (Southern Nagoya) and Kiyosu (Northern Nagoya). 3 Stations are already finished.
There's also a screenshot of the 100 Series on the Tokaido Shinkansen that will also be part of this route, but it still needs a lot of decoration and detailing.

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Nice screenshots!

Here's something from me:

AlexMaria said:

Nice screenshots!

Here's something from me:

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Nice screenshot too! A nice line-up of the 100 Series!

Btw, I got a unknown asset by the MP car of the 100 Series JR West green livery. It's about <kuid:668654:101872>. Any idea what this could be?