(WIP) Caldwell County Railroad

[NDORFN]

I made two copies of all the crossing .bins and named them with suffixes _SA for short activation and _MA for medium activation. Then I made two copies of the LUA files and named them with suffixes _SA and _MA and edited the WARN_DISTANCE, CLOSE_DISTANCE and PASS_DISTANCE to what I need. Then I went through all the .bins using RW_Tools and redirected them to the appropriate LUA's. Took me flippen ages but it was worth it. I've got them ready to go, and Jerry (SMM Digital) told me I can do whatever I want with them, but that was before his departure so I need to check with him if it's still ok to upload them.

[PapaXpress]

Send them to me. I'll bundle them with the others.

[NDORFN]

Will do. Just going over them with a fine tooth comb. I discovered a few anomalies which I think are due to me having made the back up of them whilst still playing around with them months ago. I suppose if I do the muted ones I can send them to you later and you'll just add them to the existing stuff?

[PapaXpress]

Sure, but wouldn't having redundant bells be more realistic than having no sound at all?

[NDORFN]

One activated arm/flashers in each area would still have a bell. For example, at the location in the video there are three barrier arms, so the extra one emits an extra bell and it sounds weird. There are a few places on my route with complicated crossing setups which it would apply to.

But hey... you give me an idea. It would be cool if you could just set a bell on or off in the editor! That aint gonna happen any time soon though.

[NDORFN]

Just been listening to prototypes. I couldn't be more wrong with the bell thing. Some crossings have 3 bells all ringing out of time. Sounds kinda cool actually. So no muted crossings.

[PapaXpress]

[NDORFN]

Golden Age Of Railroading is back up!!! I've got the trestle pack I was missing. That's everything I need for the route. Back in business! Thank you Michael

[PapaXpress]

This is good news indeed!

[NDORFN]

Feeling a bit dispondent. Spent 100's of hours laying track painstakingly with mininal incriments in gradient to achieve a smooth look and ride, and the day I lay my last piece of track I find a video showing the gradient smoothing tool. So now I have thousands of sections of track, when I could've had less than a hundred

Where's the "crying" emoticon?

[thecanadianrail]

[LandN]

Is the grocery warehouse just outside of Hickory still there?

[NDORFN]

I'm not sure, I live in New Zealand (Hobbiton to be precise). I use Google satellite maps and street view, and when in doubt I ask the guys who run the CCRY on thier Facebook page.

[LandN]

K. I remember it because that was where the Carolina & North West kept their CF7 when I was over there. I have a pic of it somewhere (probably in Wyoming at my son's house).

Jay

[NDORFN]

Sounds like something I should encorporate into the route!