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Post by cowboy40 on Aug 5, 2022 23:02:35 GMT -7
I do love my hobbies....one of them is playing with trains on the computer...I have always loved model trains, but now I only have the room, time and finances right now for Train Simming!!!! Here we see a mixed train of Amtrak Superliners and some private cars marked in the old "Santa Fe"...a way i keep history of the fallen flags alive is putting them on my model trains....
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Post by trynda1701 on Aug 6, 2022 7:19:57 GMT -7
Did you every have an actual physical layout in the past?
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Post by cowboy40 on Aug 6, 2022 7:51:51 GMT -7
Did you every have an actual physical layout in the past? Yes, a while back probably about 6 years now before I had to give it up. It was in and the house got flooded. It was based off Donner Pass. I used that route but that subdivision of what was in the Southern Pacific as the Prototype. I love the transition era from changing from Steam to the Diesels. I also love Mountain railroading, so it was just natural to use Donner pass. |
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Post by trynda1701 on Aug 6, 2022 7:59:06 GMT -7
Did you every have an actual physical layout in the past? Yes, a while back probably about 6 years now before I had to give it up. It was in and the house got flooded. It was based off Donner Pass. I used that route but that subdivision of what was in the Southern Pacific as the Prototype. I love the transition era from changing from Steam to the Diesels. I also love Mountain railroading, so it was just natural to use Donner pass. If happen to have any pictures, I'd like to see them please. |
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Post by cowboy40 on Aug 6, 2022 15:45:17 GMT -7
I have to find the pictures of the layout...they are on an old memory card...got to find it...
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Post by cowboy40 on Aug 6, 2022 15:47:19 GMT -7
Here is another old steam engine leading us down the road on a sentimental journey...
Here ATSF No. 3751 leads a double header with ATSF No. 3802: they are moving a troop train from the yards in Needles, Ca to Barstow, Ca in route to Los Angeles down the Needles Subdivision....
Thanks Glenn Miller for the Sentimental Journey.....
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Post by trynda1701 on Aug 6, 2022 16:38:24 GMT -7
I have to find the pictures of the layout...they are on an old memory card...got to find it... Understood.  |
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Post by cowboy40 on Aug 8, 2022 13:08:45 GMT -7
Here is another from the sim videos I am doing.
Here we have a unique type of steam locomotive, knows as a Shay class D. These were geared steam locomotives designed for heavy industrial use with logging companies and ore mines. They were used to pull heavy trains on quickly laid track and up steep grades of around 6%. They could move around tight turns. Most geared locometives of these types though worked narrow gauge trackege (3 feet between the rails), but this one is working the standard gauge (4 feet 8 1/2 inch) mainline.
A good piece of American engineering and innovation...
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Post by cowboy40 on Aug 21, 2022 7:38:17 GMT -7
When it comes to Train Sims, I have more modern ones then MSTS...I still have that one only in important file forms...
I have TSW2 and a few other sims from Dovetail games. Good products, but if you were to get all the DLC content that was released for it, that rings in at around $1,000+..something close to 60 expansions now for it...each ranging from 19 to 29 dollars. That's crazy. Also they are just now getting steam into the pictures of this sim.
Its funny now though, I still prefer that old MSTS (Microsoft Train Simulator) stuff, but i don't use the Micorscrew product directly; I use Open Rails 1.4 as my main train sim. It doesn't use the MSTS train physics. It uses its own physics model and so on. but it is compatible with MSTS routes, sounds, shapes, and so on. It takes the graphics and pushes them through its own graphics and environmental engine. This engine improves on the graphics fairly well. Out of the box, Open Rails, like MSTS, physics engine was set up to cover steam, diesel electric, and electric locomotive operations. Recently they also are trying to cover some of the differences in diesel hydraulic locomotives as well.
The biggest thing about Open Rails is that it is a modern train sim, that is open source and free!!! It is a project created to bring MSTS up to modern standards, and they have did it. All most all of the content that was created in payware and freeware forms are compatible with OR. This means anyone can expand to their hearts desire. The community is still actively improving on this sim. It has come along way in the years of its development. I will continue to support this project...i make donations to the group, and well that has payed off...the community has done a great job taking old content and making is still fun to use today. Yes it lacks a lot of the eye candy you find in new retail sims, but it has a better physics model and so on....
thanks for reading my PSA here...big smile...
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Post by Deleted on Sept 23, 2022 17:09:46 GMT -7
I just keep plugging along with FS9 because it's paid for and it pretty much works on my cheap computer. I even found an FS9 community on Facebook... Nice bunch of freaks there.
Today the wife dragged me out thrifting and I scored a nice USB Throttle and Mixture quadrant for seven USD. I plugged it into FS9, and it worked. All I had to do was tell the computer that the mixture was not the rudder, and invert the axis on the throttle and mixture sliders. Easy-peasy.
We have Flight Sims, Train Sims, a few Driving Sims, and a Farming Sim... Now, for the real thrill-seekers, we even have a Narrow Boat simulator.
I may have to give this a try...
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