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Standard as the modern profile has concrete ties. This route is set prior to concrete ties being widely adopted in the US. Actually not sure they were even a thing here at all at that time period

Eric,
This is great to see.. I'll be moving back to the Chicago area from Florida (yes I know, I'm insane) Palatine, as a matter of fact. If you need any help let me know.

Geez I really do need to take the time to sit down and learn WFH


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As many of you know, myself and Brandon Smith (and a few others) are currently working on most of the Midwest between Chicago and the twin cities, well I’m also work west from Toledo on the NS...

I'm actually kind of partial to the bankrupt blue "The Rock" scheme.. Then again, I greatly prefer blue to red & yellow anyway.. Which weird since Chessie is my favorite road.

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A westbound NS Manifest slowly pulls onto the main as it leaves the yard in Elkhart, Indiana

Just a little teaser of something in the works for this route:

A (very) late running Capitol Limited screams by on its way to Chicago as a venerable SD40-2 yanks a cut of loaded coal hoppers out...

I know of at least one sleeper car, the "Silver Rapids" on the California Zephyr that was owned by the PRR and had the small reporting mark plates that said PRR by the vestibule. It was a 10-6...

You left that sentence as a fragment. It should have ended "because I knowingly obtained a route that has been stated over and over as not even remotely finished in a less than moral/legal way...

Right now there isn't enough sections that are "complete" to warrant a testing session. There are a handful of single tile sections that MIGHT be able to pass for complete, but due to the sheer size...

I could definitely use some photos and unfortunately no work on it as of late as I’ve been working a second job with Delta Air Lines and they are running me into the ground as we wind down the spring...

When I want it Neil?!?!? I NEED it now!! Email me :)


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Right now I’ve sent the model over to Brandon Smith to take a look at.. I believe I screwed up the hierarchy so now the bogies won’t swivel on curves.. also a few texturing issues that need to be...

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I've got it animated and into the sim on a testing basis.. Its slightly too high and too wide but other than that, I'm fairly...

Just a little update, and before anybody says anything, yes the ends have been ripped off. I wasn't completely happy with the way they were mapping out texture wise, so I figured I'd rip them off and...

That would definitely help as the diner is next and I'm going to rework this model as the base for all other viewliners. That process is a double edged sword. It's going to cut down modeling time,...

Other than the baggage car, and maybe even that one included, I’m hoping to add interiors to them.


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My current plan is to make the baggage car first as that is what is in use currently across the entire system, then move to the diner, then the sleepers, then finish up with the baggage dorm and...

At the moment MSTS compatibility can’t be guaranteed, but I will do my best. I refuse to sacrifice quality so I will try to get the best compromise I can.


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Its been asked for, the prototype has replaced all the heritage counterparts, and now for Open Rails, the CAF USA Viewliner II. This is the baggage car and is still a work in progress. I'm still...

Oh this route will be FAR bigger than the Chicagoland route and set in quite a different period. Unfortunately, most of the tracks that are included in Chicagoland, including several big terminal...

A status update that only includes a map at the moment.. After working with Jeff to get Chicago Union Station perfected (model wise), and struggling with a track display issue on the underpass under...

Short little video I made of my Metra route that I'm working on.. This is an inbound Heritage Corridor train from where the train comes off the old Santa Fe line, crosses the Chicago Sanitary & Ship...

Eric, your shapes that you made for the Harvard are proving INVALUABLE to say the least...

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Thanks Neil! Since you seem to enjoy it so much, here's another one for you. Betcha can't guess where this is.. ;)

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