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Yes, with any luck, we'll have a nice revamp of the ca 1869 CP / UP stuff next year

Nice work! This project I've been posting over at pacificng, as there's a small collection of CP-interested people over there; and it grew out of a post someone made over there last year.
http://www.pacificng.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=38 for most, though there's some stuff in the prototype section ...

On the downside; I need to rebuild a bunch of stuff w/ PBR textures......

Yep, I've played with it a bit. The new parallax mapping for ground textures really increases the realism, imho. I haven't tried the new grass effects yet, but the screenshots look good.

Just playing around in Utah a bit: http://www.pacificng.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=38

I know what you mean... Looks great, though!

Hey Rick!

Sorry I missed your post. Yeah, most versions of Trainz need the Internet. There is (or was) a version of TANE that didn't need the Internet, but I don't know if it is still available or not.

Welcome back!!

Curtis

Those look great, Norm!!

I think Pencil's tunnel tracks will work much better here once he gets them finished

When / if
Yes, I do need to finish them. I'll have to dig them back up and see what's left to do......

Nice looking shots!
Curtis

That looks great! I picked up the Tonopah & Tidewater book last fall, and thought it would be a fun railroad to model (that and the Las Vegas and Tonopah). Parts of the LV&T are still visible on the road between Las Vegas and Goldfield...

Thanks! Just need to do all the other versions of it now.....

Excellent! I'll have to download them

For the gates, I still need to finish the model and animate it (and then set up some nice generic crossings to use them). It'll probably be after the convention in October, though; they're good enough for my presentation so I likely won't spend more time on them until after the presentation is ...

A couple simple crossing signs. Taken from the 1927 AASHO traffic manual, I *believe* signs like this were is use (a little?) earlier. I've seen them in photos dated 1950; I'm sure some survived in use past then.

http://carsoncarshops.com/gallery3/var/albums/Virginia%20_and_%20Truckee/crossing ...

As far as I can tell, commercial vehicles back then tended to be put together by the purchaser - chassis and engine from the manufacturer, and the body from a separate company. So, they were all custom jobs. I've seen a variety of colors on the Internet, but nothing to suggest anything was 'standard ...