Railworks America

The route is coming along nicely, the trackwork is complete and corrected. It's NOT Class A smooth, but the speed limits will help keep you from serious injury.


Rye junction with the BN looking East up the Burnt Bridge canyon. The BN shuttle has dropped our loads and is heading back to Vancouver with the empties. NOTE: The curved trestle is no longer there, save a few burnt off stubs, thus the 'Burnt Bridge' name.


Rye, looking West towards Vancouver Lake. The Tacoma UP hotshot is on time.


Heading up the canyon.


More of the canyon details.


Interstate 5 OC. Ross substation in the distance.


Bonneville Power construction yard. Lots of heavy loads go in here.


Meadowglade Farms cattle loading pens.


South end of Battleground, WA


Battleground shops and MOW for the LINC. Shed by PapaXpress.


Lewis River Bridge, a custom bridge by Great Northerner.

More to come, lots left to do. I'm actually departing from reality a bit, to add more work for the engine crews.

Looking great.

I hope we'll be able to run it without needing a payware route in order to run the route. Nothing like a freeware route where all you need is default and freeware assets.

jpetersjr wrote:Looking great.

I hope we'll be able to run it without needing a payware route in order to run the route. Nothing like a freeware route where all you need is default and freeware assets.

Find me a replacement for the Phorum Penninsula items and I'll be able to do it.... right now, I also have the HSC Route installed for the buildings, but that could be substituted.

Looks awesome. By the way, hows your shoulder replacement doing. I'm 5 months now and just about got all my range of motion back. Strength isn't so good though.

I think this is looking fantastic and will be such a pleasure to run. I say keep going the way you are. Everyone should have the HSC anyway as it is very good. It's the only payware US route up to the standards of freeware routes like this one and a couple others in development. The HSC and Phorum aren't too much to get. So many nice UK routes require Phorum, as does the lovely Cimmarron route.

krellnut wrote:Looks awesome. By the way, hows your shoulder replacement doing. I'm 5 months now and just about got all my range of motion back. Strength isn't so good though.

Thank you for remembering! I'm also at 5 months, and have full range of motion. Strength is coming back now, and I'm back to doing things I was used to doing. High-Powered rifles are out unless I learn to shoot left handed, the Doc says the shoulder wouldn't support the recoil.

Griphos wrote:I think this is looking fantastic and will be such a pleasure to run. I say keep going the way you are. Everyone should have the HSC anyway as it is very good. It's the only payware US route up to the standards of freeware routes like this one and a couple others in development. The HSC and Phorum aren't too much to get. So many nice UK routes require Phorum, as does the lovely Cimmarron route.

The issue I'm trying to address with the HSC content, is that the towns and older houses are perfectly represented in the HSC, as most were built in the teens to 40s. The area subdivisions are fairly recent and we have good models for those in the freeware lists.

By the way, this is my home area. I cross the tracks almost every day, and it is easy for me to research. I'm really considering slipping the time back to the 1970s, when the sawmill at the end of the line was still producing. After all, I put out the fire on the trestle leg of the wye in 1937!

The further back in time the better as far as I'm concerned! I prefer to drive Geeps and Alcos any day! :-)

Hey mike, speaking of housing for your route, you said you were using the HSC stuff but it was too old for the route technicaly, did you forget about the freeware SMM packs, and the NRD house packs that are full of more modern stuff?

http://railworksamerica.com/FileLibrary ... -2011.html

love the route btw, it really looks like the real thing if you know what i mean?

thecanadianrail wrote:Hey mike, speaking of housing for your route, you said you were using the HSC stuff but it was too old for the route technicaly, did you forget about the freeware SMM packs, and the NRD house packs that are full of more modern stuff?

http://railworksamerica.com/FileLibrary ... -2011.html

love the route btw, it really looks like the real thing if you know what i mean?

The town of Battleground was founded in 1909, so the lower Main street businesses (near the tracks) are likely to match up with the HSC stuff. Brush Prairie is about the same vintage and has false front stores and a grainery.



The SMM and NRD houses are what I was talking about for the subdivisions and so on... I've made 1 block long flexi-strips of Jerry's houses, and of the NRD stuff. It makes subdivisions a snap to lay out.

Griphos wrote:The further back in time the better as far as I'm concerned! I prefer to drive Geeps and Alcos any day! :-)

The route was owned for a while by the Northern Pacific, thus the yin/yang symbol on 81. In 1970 it wouldn't be totally out of line for there to be a NP RSC3 with LINC patch lettering to be running the route. Today, there are alco S2s and S3s pulling the excursion, and a Prairie tanker on the weekend.

Good news and Bad news...
The bad News: We had some severe summer storms that wreaked havoc with one of our culverts at MP 4.3...


The good news: This is a way of fixing up a breakpoint for the first release of the route. Once I finish the industrial area at Minnehaha, I plan to release a 0.5 version for folks to play with. It will be an active transfer scenario that will keep you busy for a few hours. Also, as you well know, the scene above won't prevent you from driving the entire route.

Looking great, Mike. Can't wait!

Hey Mike!!
This looks to be another fantastic route.All of your work is awesome!

I'm nearly ready for a .5 release. The following list are the assets used for the route.

Railworks DLC Payware

Project Platform DLC - $
RIch Garber's Fort Kent DLC - $
HorseShoe Curve DLC - $

3D Trains material - freeware or payware - payware looks much nicer!

3D Trains Scalerail
3D Trains Scaleroads
3D Trains Scenery
http://www.3dtrains.com/downloads/

Freeware

90000ft Semi trailer pack - Download here
Developer Addon - Vending machines - will be packaged with the route assets (I lost the source for these nice vending machines, if anyone knows, please tell me)
DMV Railcrossings and scenery items - will be packaged with the route assets
All of GreatNorthener's scenery items, download from http://www.golden-age-rails.com/scenery.html
GreatNortherner's Custom Lewis River Bridge and my repaints of his signs will be packaged in the route assets pack
Jason Webb CSXAline signal cabinet
JBFried Transfer point - grain unloader
John Lippai NS New River Districts Building pack - available here

Josef72 mosty beton_1
Josef72 mosty oblouk1_single http://www.railworks.cz/mosty-mostky-propustky/

Kuju RailSimulator
Kuju RailSimulatorUS
RSDL Scenery - default items

SAD and SAD 2011 foliage and scenery packs - use his blog to find them - http://sad-railworks.blogspot.com/

SMM Digital Railcrossings http://www.smmdigital.net/index.html
SMM Digital House packs - I will include the flexi strip in the route asset pack

Wilburton Stockton scenery packs

WX4JCW CSJAXDIV Bridges
WX4JCW CSJAXDIV a_line_xing_guardrail1

Still searching, Please help, if you know the source for these. I'd like to have a full link list.

Updated 18/7/12

Mike, you have my permission to include any of my assets with your route package. I believe if you ask SMM and John Lippai they will also allow you to bundle their work as well.

Hi Mike,

This is excellent news!

Please feel free to include the scenery items from my website in the route's package file.

Josef72 mosty beton_1 |
Josef72 mosty oblouk1_single
--> these two are most likely from the Railworks.cz site, Josef72 is a regular contributor there.
You probably got them from this page: http://www.railworks.cz/mosty-mostky-propustky/

RSDL Scenery - ? default I think
The foliage pack is default in Railworks, not sure about the rest. Some of that dates back to Rail Simulator days.

Wilburton Stockton scenery packs
These are from UKTrainSim, authored by Kevin McGowan.

Cheers,
Michael