Railroad tracks

[Wahrborg]

One of you skining-gurus should shape up the railroad tracks =)

[-=UK=-Tanker]

and the Rivers too a darker blue ;)

[Jaguar]

and the Rivers too a darker blue ;)
I've already done that.

[-=UK=-Tanker]

nice!:)....were?

[Jaguar]

Check my 'track texture pack & water texture Ver.1.0' here:
http://www.steelbeasts.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=Downloads&file=index&req=viewsdownload&sid=24

[-=UK=-Tanker]

Ace mate!

[MajorMagee]

I'm not sure what you're looking for. Is this headed in the right direction?

[Scorpius]

I've been working on some track textures, work in progress....

[MajorMagee]

I threw a Generic Mod Enabler ready copy in the downloads section...

[-=UK=-Tanker]

that FISTV could do with a nice skin too :) lol

[Hackworth]

that FISTV could do with a nice skin too :) lol

Ah, I wouldn't waste my time skinning models from SB1... We'll probably get new models at some point, then whomever did the skin would be a little more than upset over the wasted time.

[congo]

I've been working on the railroad all the live long day. I've been working on the railroad just to pass the time away.

[TopKick]

MajorMageeAdded Creosote to the ties, took the rust off the top of the rails, and improved the color balance of the right of way ballast,

Some countries have concrete cross ties with the rails bolted to them. Not all have wood ties and rails nailed down with spikes like the USA does.

[Wahrborg]

The issues i had whit the old ones was that the base were to wide for one track, and the base were to bright to blend in whit the surroundings - so tnx for those congo =)

[Jaguar]

Nice job, Congo. :) Where do I have to put the train file?

[taskforce-panther]

that FISTV could do with a nice skin too :) lol

i already have one from sb1 in sand color if ya want it let me know, i have a whole set, besides that one in the pic is a 113 FO not a fistV

i have them in there if ya want ask nice and ill upload the whole set again

[taskforce-panther]

heres all them old sb1 skins just have to pick out the ones ya need

[congo]

Jag,

It goes in the C:program files\esim games\sb pro pe\textures\woodland

[RogueSnake79]

Great job congo, definite improvment

[congo]

I kinda knew I was on the right track and I had to finish them before I lost my train of thought. yuk yuk

[Scorpius]

I kinda knew I was on the right track and I had to finish them before I lost my train of thought. yuk yuk

Wiseguy eh?

http://tonova.typepad.com/thesuddencurve/curly-thumb.jpg

Nice tracks Congo!!!

[MajorMagee]

Actually, the company I work for developed a product last year called the Rail Track Insert. It's a black nylon insert that's cast into a concrete tie so you can bolt the rails down to it, without creating a galvanic couple between the track, and the rebar in the tie. Our design greatly reduces the corrosion rates.

8)

[congo]

Why Coitainly!!!!!

[MajorMagee]

Congo,

I really like the look of your tracks. I see you've reduced their width by more than 25%. What gage are they now?

:?:

[congo]

Narrow in realtime HO in sim

[congo]

I was raised in a town on the Susquehanna river that several tracks passed thru. I spent a lot of time walking those tracks to get to my favorite fishing holes. I can still remember those big old GG1,s pulling 150 coal cars, horn a blaring and that big red caboose. These that I did came from my memory and heart.

[MajorMagee]

Here's an Internet Classic on the subject

Railroad Tracks



The UK Standard railroad gauge (distance between the rails) is 4 feet, 8.5
inches. That's an exceedingly odd number.



Why was that gauge used?



Because the first rail lines were built by the same people who built the
pre-railroad tramways, and that's the gauge they used.



Why did "they" use that gauge then?



Because the people who built the tramways used the same jigs and tools that
they used for building wagons, which used that wheel spacing.



Okay! Why did the wagons use that odd wheel spacing?



Well, if they tried to use any other spacing the wagons would break on some
of the old, long distance roads, because that's the spacing of the old wheel
ruts.



So who built these old rutted roads?



The first long distance roads in Europe were built by Imperial Rome for the
benefit of their legions. The roads have been used ever since.



And the ruts?



The initial ruts, which everyone else had to match for fear of destroying
their wagons, were first made by Roman war chariots. Since the chariots were
made for or by Imperial Rome they were all alike in the matter of wheel
spacing. Thus we have the answer to the original question. The United States
standard railroad gauge of 4 feet, 8.5 inches derives from the original
specification for an Imperial Roman army war chariot.



Specs and Bureaucracies live forever. So, the next time you are handed a
specification and wonder what horse's ass came up with it, you may be
exactly right. Because the Imperial Roman chariots were made to be just wide
enough to accommodate the back ends of two war-horses.



Now the twist to the story...



There's an interesting extension of the story about railroad gauge and
horses' behinds. When we see a Space Shuttle sitting on the launch pad,
there are two big booster rockets attached to the sides of the main fuel
tank. These are the solid rocket boosters, or SRBs. The SRBs are made by
Thiokol at a factory in Utah. The engineers who designed the SRBs might have
preferred to make them a bit fatter, but the SRBs had to be shipped by train
from the factory to the launch site. The railroad line to the factory runs
through a tunnel in the mountains. The SRBs had to fit through that tunnel.
The tunnel is slightly wider than a railroad track, and the railroad track
is about as wide as two horses' behinds.



So a major design feature of what is arguably the world's most advanced
transportation system was determined by the width of a horse's ass!

[congo]

Thanks Magee now I feel like a real horses ass.

[Jaguar]

Hey Congo, your last screenie....is that Trainz 2006? :lol: :wink:

[congo]

No Jag just a little photoshop magic just remember that the light at the end of the tunnel is probably the locomotive heading right for you.