Railworks America

Since none of the photos on my old EBT thread are no longer view able due to photobucket wanting money of me now for me to be able to share the photos to other websites I've decided to make a new thread. A lot of work has been done over the last few months and a plan on how the route will be released is being sorted. It will be donationware which go towards the Friends of the East Broad Top. There is planned loco packs featuring rolling stock to go with.


One of the latest renders of No.12 "Millie" WIP

Placeholder Orbisonia Depot we are looking to model a new building that is a lot more detailed, this was made in sketchup by me and has many problems with it..

Rockhill yards, the buildings are placeholder

Shirleysburg Station

Passing over the bridge just before coming in to Shirleysburg, the K-27 is just a temporary thing.


Passing over the Aughwick bridge

Adams passing loop, this is where the scenery ends currently

Started laying track for the complex Mt Union yard..

This is looking great, nice steam locomotive by the way.

Donationware is a great idea! I was heart broken when I found out they weren't running anymore.

We plan to model every EBT Mikado, from the medium sized Mikado's 14 & 15 to the big Mikado's 16, 17 & 18. We are in need of modelers for buildings, so if anyone would be interested in helping out please do say!

So you're taking TweetsieDude's EBT Mikado for your route? Did he give permission to make it Donationware? Cuz the last time I talked to him it has to be Freeware only.

Logan20131 wrote:So you're taking TweetsieDude's EBT Mikado for your route? Did he give permission to make it Donationware? Cuz the last time I talked to him it has to be Freeware only.

The route can still be donationware without violating the IP issues of the freeware Locomotive, just add a link to the freeware download location of the locomotive. This allows the Geometry files to be distributed as freeware while the repaints can still be distributed with the route. I don't own the EBT Mikado, so I am not sure what the freeware stipulations are, but most repaints are done by allowing the user to download the purchased product and use the geometry files for the repaints. I suppose the opposite is true also.

Logan20131 wrote:So you're taking TweetsieDude's EBT Mikado for your route? Did he give permission to make it Donationware? Cuz the last time I talked to him it has to be Freeware only.

I don't understand. Isn't that model by him for Trainz? If someone did it for TS20xx wouldn't that be a different model?

Yeah, TweetsieDude only models for trainz(Unless I just didn't hear he did Railworks models).

buzz456 wrote:
I don't understand. Isn't that model by him for Trainz? If someone did it for TS20xx wouldn't that be a different model?

Um.........Yep!!

Logan20131 wrote:So you're taking TweetsieDude's EBT Mikado for your route? Did he give permission to make it Donationware? Cuz the last time I talked to him it has to be Freeware only.

We aren't taking it he made it purposely for us and understands its for donationware and it's been made so it's more suited to TSXX, do not worry :)

Those who know the EBT well well recognise some of these places! Now with custom buildings..

will957 wrote:We aren't taking it he made it purposely for us and understands its for donationware and it's been made so it's more suited to TSXX, do not worry :)

Whew....Glad you showed up Will, didn't want to see another technical display of the fine art of rivet counting start with this thread, thanks, nice work.

Okay. Cool to hear about him building it for Donationware packs.

Orbisonia Station.. Should have an update on the loco and other things at a later date.

Any more work on this fun little route project?