My New Western Route

[jpetersjr]

Well, I'm going to take over with the wood tracks. It's still going to be quite a route.


Besides, it's going to be freeware and I know someone will want to modernize it, they can change the track if they like and change the buildings. But they wouldn't be able to change the earth.

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[jpetersjr]

I can probably smooth out the tops, but I'll have to figure out how to change the bridge, maybe I can line it up better with the track this time.

And a while back I was working on another route on a different computer, that computer crashed. So I've had a little bit of practice.

[thecanadianrail]

everything sounds good, remember for placing objects in the editor there are the hotkey's like F,G for rotation, V,B, for elevation. to get track or objects on lofts you can always select the track with the selection tool, press the offset button, and for bridges i set it to .000001 for accuracy and then select my bridge, and finnaly click on the yellow arrow at one end of my selection.

[jpetersjr]

Unfortunately, that's the biggest freeware bridge greatnorthernor has made, there isn't any more.

[thecanadianrail]

what about that big one in the background?

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[jpetersjr]

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Here's some pictures of a regular 19th century steam locomotive parked on the side of the cliff.


And for the bridges, I think the big one is the one I'm using, either that or I can't find it in my list. I'll look again, but I think that is it.

[jpetersjr]

And from what I can see from the picture, it has a skinny top, those ones are too hard to line up with the track. Need the wide base one like I'm using.

[thecanadianrail]

if you have read one of my earlyer posts it would tell you how to EASLY make loft objects line up with other ones.

[jpetersjr]

Here's some more progress.

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[thecanadianrail]

coming along nicely! just trying to imagine how great it will look when finished! so what are the track grades that you are using? i usualy keep it to a maximum of 3% on mainlines and 6% on branchlines and spurs, although on my shay route i do have a 8% section just for those locos.

[jpetersjr]

Well, often on mountains and cliffs, the grades were usually steeper. So it will have the trickier steeper grade and of course, the track would seem somewhat bumpy since it's placed on the side of a mountain.

And often, the decent was equally as dangerous. They did have some somewhat steep decent's and tight turns. After all, that's why in the 19th century there were so many train crashes up in the mountains.

Sometimes the engineer would lose his life because of a rock slide, or the weakened cliff would give away from erosion. And sometimes, the old wood bridges would simply fail. When that wasn't happening, sometimes there were derailments.

I could say this route won't be a easy one, it will be tricky to get your engine through the mountains and then to the last town on the line.


Also, how does my mountain painting look. Later I hope to put some brush weed on the mountains. And hopefully someone will make some freeware cactuses like these, as of right now these are the only thing I'm missing because no one has made any. Which we need for a route designed like Arizona.

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[jpetersjr]

Here's two more pictures for now.

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[jpetersjr]

Here's more progress. Been working on the route ever since 7am this morning and will probably work on it until 12am.

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[arizonachris]

Dang, JP, you are a man on a mission!

Just kinda thinking out loud, are there any cacti on the San Bernadino/ Barstow?

[jpetersjr]

Not the correct kind since it can't be found in the default library.


And don't have anything else to do around here but work on the route.