Powder River Basin

[jalsina]

Wow! It is really a stunning screenshot

[Tomcat]

Thanks everyone!

A peek behind the curtain.

2 hours work, 100 meters of scenery that is only 10% complete. Creeks and ponds are why this project is going to take 5 years.

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[BoostedFridge]

Tim your terrain painting on this route is absolutely top notch! Your use of the multiple shades along the water features is perfect. Take your time, results like this are worth every minute.

[Tomcat]

Tim your terrain painting on this route is absolutely top notch! Your use of the multiple shades along the water features is perfect. Take your time, results like this are worth every minute.

Thank you BoostedFridge!

This really is, in no small part, your fault! There are only two or three routes that I constantly refer back to when I need to recharge the creative battery - The first route that I came across that showed me what is possible as far as terrain painting was Willamette Pass. The second is your route, The Siskiyou Line. I find myself constantly going back to your thread and trying to mentally reverse-engineer how you made something look so darn good.

Seems like the more time I rack up in the editor the slower I go. Some days my decorating pace can be compared to how fast you think a turtle might be able to crawl along the right-of-way.

[Tomcat]

I lied!

I said I wasn't coming back to the Black Hills Sub until after the Orin Sub was in completely. Well, here I am just East of Upton.

Black Hills Subdivision is a bit more scenic than the Orin and that plus endless asset blocks of grass drove me here for a breather. These are WIP shots, still plenty more trees to plant and all of the detail work within a couple dozen meters of the track are still left to do.

First shot is 3D weather clear/Alpenfreight's mod for clarity and next 3 are all 2D Sherman Hill Cloudy. The empty area running up the right hand side awaits the addition of, you guessed it, a creek.

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[JohnS]

Looks great Tom!! Really looking forward to this route in the future.

[georgian22]

Sir, I admire your diligence, creativity, and stick-to-it-ness for this route. Thanks for the update and pics. Looks phenomena!


O'brian

[TDHenderson]

Tomcat, if you are up to it after you are done, I have a good start on the Black Hills High Line (Edgemont to Deadwood, including both the Keystone and Hot Springs Branches). Route markers, terrain, several books, and 460 photographs of the line while in use. Sad to say I have found I am not that good at much beyond the start at this time.

Trevor

[Tomcat]

Thanks JohnS and georgian22!

Tomcat, if you are up to it after you are done, I have a good start on the Black Hills High Line (Edgemont to Deadwood, including both the Keystone and Hot Springs Branches). Route markers, terrain, several books, and 460 photographs of the line while in use. Sad to say I have found I am not that good at much beyond the start at this time.

Trevor

At this point I'm not really sure what I'll be up for once the Powder River Basin is done. What I hope for the most is that I'll still be alive. In my roughest of estimations the PRB will take another 4 to 5 years. Adding to that is my Cajon-Mojave route is still not complete. Two projects are the most I can handle at any one time and truthfully I don't think I'm handling it all that well so far. I don't know much at all about the Black Hills High Line - I may have missed it, do you have a post anywhere about it? If not, you might want to consider starting one and I for one would be interested in seeing what it's all about.



I'm just about ready to stop fooling around with decorating and get what I have packaged up for release - hopefully sometime this week. This will represent about 1/10th of what I hope it will be when complete. Dependencies will be spelled out fully when I post a link to the route but it looks like it will be:

Tehachapi Pass
Soldier Summit
Sherman Hill
Steven's Pass

and

RCAP

All other assets will be packaged up with the route.

Quick video of where route 16 crosses over the Black Hills sub a stones throw East of Upton.




A few screenies of further work in this area;

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[Tomcat]

One last video of Donkey Creek Junction before the release of the first stage. Next post from me will be the particulars and the link for the route - later today or tomorrow barring any major disasters.

[PNWR1854]

Might've missed this, but what are the required DLC for the route? Thanks.

[imnew]

So looking forward to this. Time to bring those SD70MAC’s out of storage. Nice video and pics btw.

[Tomcat]

Might've missed this, but what are the required DLC for the route? Thanks.

Still looks to be the same as previously mentioned.

Payware
Tehachapi Pass
Soldier Summit
Sherman Hill
Steven's Pass

and

Freeware
RCAP

All other freeware assets will be packaged up with the route.

Link will be coming soon!

[gtrtroger]

Not real familiar with the PRB. Does anyone have an “operations” guide.....
We are going to need a lot of coal gondola repaints for this. Based on what I’m seeing on utube, a lot of these unit trains are “customer owned”.....
...can’t wait....

[cnbalasub]

See the system timetable of BNSF Orin subdivision but it's way back in 2001 and 2002. Don't see any latest with this timetable unless someone else know where to find.

John