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3 foot and held together by Prairie grass

Unread postPosted: Sat May 28, 2011 12:39 pm
by KCJones
My next project. I think *!embar*!

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A new experience for me. I am getting lofty ideas. With the help of Great Northerner I am on the right track !*YAAA*!

Re: 3 foot and held together by Prairie grass

Unread postPosted: Sat May 28, 2011 2:01 pm
by Hawk
Playing on words now are we Dick? !*roll-laugh*!

Re: 3 foot and held together by Prairie grass

Unread postPosted: Sat May 28, 2011 2:03 pm
by PapaXpress
A narrow gauge shay perhaps???

Re: 3 foot and held together by Prairie grass

Unread postPosted: Sat May 28, 2011 4:06 pm
by KCJones
Funny you should mention the Shay *!!wink!!*

Well it all helps to keep me on the rails and on the right road!!!! !DUH!

Re: 3 foot and held together by Prairie grass

Unread postPosted: Sat May 28, 2011 4:35 pm
by thecanadianrail
You're blazing a path now! hmmmm............shay's with narrow guage! now i possibly could have fun!

Re: 3 foot and held together by Prairie grass

Unread postPosted: Sat May 28, 2011 8:53 pm
by bpetit
Yay, Narrow Gauge. I have some plans for it....

Re: 3 foot and held together by Prairie grass

Unread postPosted: Sat May 28, 2011 9:07 pm
by PapaXpress
I wonder if its possible to make dual gauge track in the game?

Re: 3 foot and held together by Prairie grass

Unread postPosted: Sun May 29, 2011 1:02 am
by KCJones
I wonder if its possible to make dual gauge track in the game?


The problem as far as I can see is that everything is referenced to the center of the track. The only way I can see at the moment would be to build rollingstock with offset ref points. That would work with the vehicles running in the designed direction. Turn them round through 180* on the track and they would look VERY odd !*roll-laugh*!

Re: 3 foot and held together by Prairie grass

Unread postPosted: Sun May 29, 2011 6:05 am
by Kali
PapaXpress wrote:I wonder if its possible to make dual gauge track in the game?


I've had a long discussion about GW broad gauge, we came to the same conclusion as Dick. Well there was a way involving animating the broad-gauge stock to shuffle left/right across the track depending which way round it was, but it's not exactly practical :P ( would need the entire track to be a signal too! )

Re: 3 foot and held together by Prairie grass

Unread postPosted: Tue Jul 19, 2011 3:12 pm
by Rich_S
Any Chance we could get a Mudhen and a few Rio Grande boxcars to run on those narrow gauge tracks?

Regards,
Rich S.

Re: 3 foot and held together by Prairie grass

Unread postPosted: Tue Jul 19, 2011 4:25 pm
by buzz456
Not to throw cold water on this but how many people are interested in narrow gauge stuff? There's no routes, no rolling stock, no nothing to support this. I think time would be better served giving more items to main and branch regular gauge product. JMHO.
Buzz

Re: 3 foot and held together by Prairie grass

Unread postPosted: Tue Jul 19, 2011 4:39 pm
by micaelcorleone
buzz456 wrote:Not to throw cold water on this but how many people are interested in narrow gauge stuff? There's no routes, no rolling stock, no nothing to support this.

Are you sure? *!greengrin!*

Re: 3 foot and held together by Prairie grass

Unread postPosted: Tue Jul 19, 2011 4:48 pm
by PapaXpress
If you build it they will ride...

Denver and Rio Grande Western

Cumbres and Toltec (once part of D&RG)

Re: 3 foot and held together by Prairie grass

Unread postPosted: Tue Jul 19, 2011 7:03 pm
by Chessie8638
PapaXpress wrote:If you build it they will ride...



+1

Love them outside frame D&RGW locomotives.

Re: 3 foot and held together by Prairie grass

Unread postPosted: Tue Jul 19, 2011 10:23 pm
by hyce777
Yes, I'd pay oodles of cash for some D&RGW narrow gauge.