The Mojave & Panamint Railroad

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Re: The Mojave & Panamint Railroad

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I've been spending the last little while tracking down content on the DLS for my own upcoming projects after I registered, so didn't get around to it until now, but I just want to let you know that you've done an amazing job with this route, and I can't wait to see more of it! Great job all around on an amazing looking route, I'm really hoping to see this on the DLS sometime in future so I can play around with it myself!
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Re: The Mojave & Panamint Railroad

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rogueranger1993 wrote: Thu Dec 28, 2017 8:56 pm I've been spending the last little while tracking down content on the DLS for my own upcoming projects after I registered, so didn't get around to it until now, but I just want to let you know that you've done an amazing job with this route, and I can't wait to see more of it! Great job all around on an amazing looking route, I'm really hoping to see this on the DLS sometime in future so I can play around with it myself!
Thanks a lot, friend! Though I couldn't gotten as far as I have without a bit of help from Curtis and Nick. Hopefully we'll get it done this year and then I can jump back on my United Verde & Pacific route. I have a thread in that one to.

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Re: The Mojave & Panamint Railroad

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any Updates?

Kregg?
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Re: The Mojave & Panamint Railroad

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Turky44 wrote: Mon Feb 12, 2018 9:55 am any Updates?

Kregg?
He would post them if he had them.

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Re: The Mojave & Panamint Railroad

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Aye :wink:
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Re: The Mojave & Panamint Railroad

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Whooo boy. Yet again it has been longer than anticipated to give a real substantial update! Well, more than my last post anyway.

One thing I've been hesitant to do is build the Searles tunnel. Mostly because I had already built a line that went up and over the mountain which I had originally believed to be the original grade from the early days of the line. Turned out it was a shoofly built after a tunnel collapse.... >_<
Well I caved... I deleted the section of track that was the shoofly and built the tunnel. And here are the pics to show you all.

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In this pic you can see the grade of the old shoofly in the background.

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This shot shows the tunnel itself. Ironically it's a 2ft gauge tunnel for a Welsh route, but it was amazingly large enough for even BIG steam power! IT's a bit too square for my tastes, but makes a decent stand-in for now. I think Pencil's tunnel tracks will work much better here once he gets them finished.

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In this shot you can see that the tunnel and portal need a bit of tweaking to get it to blend seamlessly into the landsacpe.

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I really like this last shot. Although you can't get a good look at the engine, I love the perspective from inside a model T. I may actually place a trackside camera here to make run-by shots more dynamic.

Anyhow, I wish I had more, but that's all for now folks!
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Re: The Mojave & Panamint Railroad

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I think Pencil's tunnel tracks will work much better here once he gets them finished
When / if :P
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!
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Re: The Mojave & Panamint Railroad

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Thanks, Curtis! Though asside from this I've mostly been focussing on scenicing the narrow gauhe portion of the route. Trying to get it in a semi presentable state for a teaser trailer. One of those "Comming soon-ish" jobs. ;)
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