Powder River Basin

[buzz456]

not to be kill joy but I've just went to find the Kansas City Southern Shreveport Sub has been taken down on train sim community

I saw that and reached out to the author to try to find out if a certain well known jerk made him take it down or what happened but like Tomcat he seems to have disappeared.

How did you reach out to him?

Jakareythomas1988 at g mail

[buzz456]

Gavin, If you are lacking something let me know and I can give you links to stuff you need by PM.

[TheKman]

Reading the last few pages. With 3DTrains gone poof, any routes in the file library requiring Scale rail and roads is rather inconvenient to members unless they all ready have these assets. EDIT: For those who don't have Scalerail and ScaleRoads, can RW tools replace those with different assets?

[buzz456]

Reading the last few pages. With 3DTrains gone poof, any routes in the file library requiring Scale rail and roads is rather inconvenient to members unless they all ready have these assets. EDIT: For those who don't have Scalerail and ScaleRoads, can RW tools replace those with different assets?

Yes it can.

[mindenjohn]

Mike explains in the manual how to alter the track rules, he uses the Bath-Templecombe (Somerset & Dorset Railway) from wayback as the example but it works.

[kris120]

You don't have to alter the trackrules.
These are in Tomcat\Orin\RailNetwork\TrackRules\ and elicit no problems.

You have to create Track-Blueprints for the tracks used in
Content\Routes\c623b397-6329-4b3d-8494-c955f2f9ebc9\Networks\Tracks.bin
These can be other tracks than the tracks mentioned in the trackrules !

Just see PBR-3DTrains-Track-Assets.txt in my post on top of this page.
If anybody needs really help, I can create a set made from tracks of Sherman Hill.
Please PM me.

Kris

[AndTheBestGamer]

Hello I wanted to download this route now, but I saw that the link of the dowload don't work anymore and on the mediafire page I just read "Something appears to be missing"?

[gtrtroger]

We’re you using these links from Jan 22?

viewtopic.php?f=7&t=19386&start=750

Pretty sure Tomcat is no longer working the route, so anything after this date will require some digging on your part.

[ssbobz]

I really like his work. Did he say anything before going inactive?

[buzz456]

Not a word. I have reached out to him with no response. I will report that I am collecting some information and will put up a dropbox link shortly so people can access this great route. I'm not going to criticize him but let's just say that baring health emergencies I don't understand these things being just abandoned and not handed off for someone to continue on with the work. Each to their own I guess.

[AmericanSteam]

I was following this months back on another Railroad Simulator site. The whole group over at that site is very tight lipped on the subject and nothing from the site administrator, who would be the one with the information.
The last post from Marc was on 2/18/2022 and stated: "My apologies for the delay. I've been dealing with several issues, including surgery that I had on the 2nd. Things should be more or less back to normal this weekend." That was his last official post and since then anyone that has any contact with him has been quiet on his status and no updates have been given official or unofficial. The only inference that I have is that something serious and unexpected has happened. Others have inferred that there was a plan in place to continue to distribute Marc's products but I have not seen any information on this either.

[buzz456]

I was referring to Tomcat.

[ssbobz]

Yeah, I hope everything is okay because he seemed quite passionate about his projects so it's hard to imagine him just giving up on them. I don't recall him receiving criticism but I don't know. Same for Marc but I never really interacted with him.

I don't think I have PRB yet, only his work on Cajon Pass. I'll need to find all the links I guess, thankfully I have scalerail already.

[kris120]

I can imagine why he did not continue: In my opinion this project is far too big for one person. He really would need support.
The brown parts are the tiles with scenery. Two tiles left and right of the track are ok, though you don't see how many assets are placed.
In my opinion the blue parts stil need some work:

2022-08-28 23_22_26-PRB_2022_Scenery+stage7.jpg

[harryadkins]

There's an excellent article on Powder River operations in the December 2022 issue of Trains magazine. "24 Hours on Logan Hill" has a list of all trains passing over the line with details. It could be a big help in scenario planning.

Harry