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Not sure if this was asked before but does anyone think there will be snow fighting equipment made for the Donner Pass route? I did a search here but I only went back a few months. Thank You

I mean it's possible, whether by RSC or 3rd party in the future but as of right now there's been no announcement that that one is being developed.

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My name's John S too

If you go here there is a Russell Snow Plough with a modified RS3 to run it for free.

http://dickyjim.com/rollingstock.html


That the kind of snow fighting equipment your looking for?

The Britkits Russell snow plow is good.
It works well with Donner pass, with the included SP RS3.
I'm working on improvements and scenarios.

However we don't currently have huge snow banks that we could plow through.

I did see the russel plow and I like Dicks stuff. I was think more on the lines of the SP Flangers, Jordan spreader, or the famous rotary snow plow. For when the winters get real hard on the "Mountain".

No one has done a rotary yest, but it wouldn't be that difficult with particles.
The problem is plowing non-existent snow banks. It's not great for supension of disbelief...

It would be cool if you couldn't see the tracks until your train plowed it and the snow gets higher on the edges after it plows through

mdurdan wrote: I'm working on something interesting... I'll let you all know soon

You always say that, Mike.

mdurdan wrote: I'm working on something interesting... I'll let you all know soon

Soon... ranges from a day to a year Gotta love hate the word

mdurdan wrote:I'll see if I can talk to dick about how he made the snow build up in front of his snow plow.

It's all there in the lua script.

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 -- snow piling up on front of plow
  if gMOWcrew == 1 and SNOWPUSH1 == true then
    Call ( "ActivateNode", "PushSnow1", 1 )
  else
    Call ( "ActivateNode", "PushSnow1", 0 )
  end

  if gMOWcrew == 1 and SNOWPUSH2 == true then
    Call ( "ActivateNode", "PushSnow2", 1 )
  else
    Call ( "ActivateNode", "PushSnow2", 0 )
  end


gMOWcrew = 1 when the plow is moving forward. SNOWPUSH1 and SNOWPUSH2 are true at certain speeds.
The script activates one of two child nodes (snow piling up in front of the plow) depending on the speed.
Of course this snow moves with the plow because it is a child node.

Just being able to throw snow up while driving through it would be cool. I've tried the snow plow and I have to say, it's pretty dern good!

mdurdan wrote:Nice! I'll have to see if he will let me steal his scrip and kidnap his children

You don't have to steal his script. Now that you know how it's done, do something similar.

mdurdan wrote:True, maybe i can re work the GEOPCDX files as well

I'll post back here with just what I'm doing...kinda obvious by now but you may be surprised

Redistribution and reverse engineering of geo files is frowned upon...

Yes, usually you don't touche the model without the author's permission.

mdurdan wrote:As I said I will be re working them as in making my own

Now that I finally own Donner i've started really wanting a rotary. I'm really glad to see your doing it. Thank you.. I can model but I'm good with numbers, not shapes, so yeah. Thanks :)
Pam