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3 foot and held together by Prairie grass

Unread postby KCJones » Sat May 28, 2011 12:39 pm

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*!
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Re: 3 foot and held together by Prairie grass

Unread postby Hawk » Sat May 28, 2011 2:01 pm

Playing on words now are we Dick? !*roll-laugh*!
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Re: 3 foot and held together by Prairie grass

Unread postby PapaXpress » Sat May 28, 2011 2:03 pm

A narrow gauge shay perhaps???
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Re: 3 foot and held together by Prairie grass

Unread postby KCJones » Sat May 28, 2011 4:06 pm

Funny you should mention the Shay *!!wink!!*

Well it all helps to keep me on the rails and on the right road!!!! !DUH!
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Re: 3 foot and held together by Prairie grass

Unread postby thecanadianrail » Sat May 28, 2011 4:35 pm

You're blazing a path now! hmmmm............shay's with narrow guage! now i possibly could have fun!
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Re: 3 foot and held together by Prairie grass

Unread postby bpetit » Sat May 28, 2011 8:53 pm

Yay, Narrow Gauge. I have some plans for it....
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Re: 3 foot and held together by Prairie grass

Unread postby PapaXpress » Sat May 28, 2011 9:07 pm

I wonder if its possible to make dual gauge track in the game?
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Re: 3 foot and held together by Prairie grass

Unread postby KCJones » Sun May 29, 2011 1:02 am

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*!
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Re: 3 foot and held together by Prairie grass

Unread postby Kali » Sun May 29, 2011 6:05 am

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! )
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Re: 3 foot and held together by Prairie grass

Unread postby Rich_S » Tue Jul 19, 2011 3:12 pm

Any Chance we could get a Mudhen and a few Rio Grande boxcars to run on those narrow gauge tracks?

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Re: 3 foot and held together by Prairie grass

Unread postby buzz456 » Tue Jul 19, 2011 4:25 pm

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.
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Re: 3 foot and held together by Prairie grass

Unread postby micaelcorleone » Tue Jul 19, 2011 4:39 pm

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!*
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Re: 3 foot and held together by Prairie grass

Unread postby PapaXpress » Tue Jul 19, 2011 4:48 pm

If you build it they will ride...

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Re: 3 foot and held together by Prairie grass

Unread postby Chessie8638 » Tue Jul 19, 2011 7:03 pm

PapaXpress wrote:If you build it they will ride...



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Re: 3 foot and held together by Prairie grass

Unread postby hyce777 » Tue Jul 19, 2011 10:23 pm

Yes, I'd pay oodles of cash for some D&RGW narrow gauge.
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