Any Route, Any Train, Anytime! - 2023 Edition

[Unoriginal]

Thanks. Growing up with Iron Roads owning the Bangor & Aroostook, Canadian American, Iowa Northern, and a couple of others, I was always inspired by the CP Script knock off paint job they had, so I made it my own with a few changes. Ironically enough, Iron Roads did own a railroad that operated between Windsor and Hantsport in the 90's.

The iron roads stuff always had interest to me, especially with the BAR. Anything new england has been really growing on me recently (your stuff may have been one of the catalysts for that).

[RobGuru]

Triple meet on the PRB.

[ZachBell4400]

BNSF U-MADALL heading northbound on the Hinckley Subdivision - some oddball BNSF jennies

[chilla]

Open Rails 2023-06-18 10-39-23 by Chris Kidd, on Flickr

Open Rails 2023-06-18 10-42-31 by Chris Kidd, on Flickr

[chilla]

Open Rails 2023-05-13 04-20-30 by Chris Kidd, on Flickr

[BurlingtonNorthern11]

SP 9501

[yellowdog]

Playing around on the B&O West End (in watercolor, I guess ha)

[rrdiesel87]

Some screens from the Pocahontas District rework I have been working on. I think this is turning out to be a really good texture combination for doing more eastern routes.

*last two screens have a filter applied

[Unoriginal]

That's simply just amazing! I've always liked pocahontas but this just tops it. I'd be very interested in seeing more progress on it, great for running some 90s NS locomotives too.

[jasonjedi1]

Down south of the border.

[Curt C]

Wow! The Mexican route looks incredible. Fantastic work!

[qballbandit]

Post # 698 above: excellent texture blending by the tunnel. The rock and terrain look seamless and very realistic!

[wwhall]

Down south of the border.

Is that one of Rodrigoville's routes? Whatever happened to him? His route building work was fantastic. Just more wonderful routes that I, and likely many other simmers, would pay to have. Also, great looking locomotives--more nicely weathered stock that would be really neat to be able to run. I've tried my hand numerous times to try to realistically weather locomotives, but I just can't seem to master it.

[qballbandit]

He (Rodrigo) is still working on his masterpiece, last we recently communicated.

[rrdiesel87]

Post # 698 above: excellent texture blending by the tunnel. The rock and terrain look seamless and very realistic!

Thanks, Neil. I'm very pleased with how well the base terrain and additional textures blend together. I've spent a few weeks now building a library of textures that all share similar colors and resolutions.

Here is a video of the same general area on the route.
https://youtu.be/cMj...Q-qczw7zfArRhi0