Fri, 18 May 2012 13:33:58 +0000 1800 This is the RSS feed of the last ten file submissions accepted into our database. This RSS feed is always up to date as it is dynamically updated. http://www.elvastower.com/forums/index.php?/files/file/1394-pe-supply-car-007/ 6.2 METER AND 7.2 METER VERSIONS
3D MESH CREATED BY TIM W. MUIR
ARTWORK CREATED BY TIM W. MUIR, USING SOME ELEMENTS FROM CGTEXTURES.COM AND OTHER SOURCES
COUPLER TEXTURES DERIVED FROM PHOTOS BY STEVE THOMPSON

You must have the Bin Patch Installed to Operate This Motor.

This is a model of Pacific Electric's supply car number 007, ex-1438 in the 1430-1444 class of all-wood box motors built by "old" PE in 1905.
1438 was converted to a supply car in 1928 and ran in this capacity until 1939 when it was converted back into an express car under it's old
number. In 1945 it was renumbered again as (2nd) 005 and used as a wrecker until scrapped by Southern Pacific in 1954.

Sometime during it's tenure as a supply car, a rotating air hoist was mounted just inside each right-hand baggage door, which was widened one
foot to accommodate the crane's swing outward to pick up heavy objects track side. The hoists were modeled with the best estimation as to their
construction. A very rudimentary model of an air chain hoist was made, again using best somewhat educated guesses and suggestions from members at
Elvas Tower, with my deep appreciation.

Data:

Built in 1905 by "Old" PE Ry Co.(Pre-1911 merger)

Weights:

Total - 75,900 lbs.

Trucks:

Type - PE Class B Rigid Bolster
Size Journals - 5"x 9"
Wheels - 33" -750 lbs. F.C.S. Cast iron

Electrical Equipment:

Motors - 4 - Westinghouse 76 - 75 H.P.
Gear ratio: - 21:61
Control - Westinghouse K-14 (Had West. L-4 as 1438 and again as 2nd 005)

Brakes - Air and Hand:

Air Brakes- West. Straight and Auto. Air.
Compressor - One West.Type D-4-K 50 Cu.Ft.
Braking Power - 104%

Model Data:
Parts: 100
Polygons: 30,001


Installation and operation:
Unzip to a temporary location and move contents to your /Trains/Trainset folder. Build a consist with your favorite consist editor.The freight
doors operate using the Ctrl+NumPad7 keys for the left-side doors and Ctrl+NumPad9 keys for those on the right, looking forward. Trolley Poles
animate as closely to actual PE pneumatic operation as was possible. Only the forward crane rotates, using Ctrl+NumPd8. Be sure to open the doors
first!

Credits and Thanks:

Thomas Pilder for Polymaster v2. I cannot thank you enough for this utility that has widened the scope of model making for myself and many others.
Scott M. Miller for AceIt and TGATool. Utilities that I can not live without.
Paul Gausden for Shape Viewer. Indispensible!!!
Tom Werb. Supplying the TSM resource files of his excellent engine crew figures to allow me to "people" my models.
Jim Bebenroth. Enthusiastic PE equipment user and tester, whose suggestions were graciousy accepted and used throughout, (and not thrown out
-LOL) and has also helped me keep a sense of humor through dark times. Also he tweaked the lighting.

Tim Muir
May 17th, 2012
Railroad Earth]]> Thu, 17 May 2012 22:38:42 +0000 1394 http://www.elvastower.com/forums/index.php?/files/file/1393-1911-ford-t-pick-up-truck/ It has been set to about 8" above ground level so the tires won't look 'flat' or sunken on a road surface.
It really wasn't designed for a static scenery object in a parking lot, per say, because the lights are always on.
Because it was built very low poly, there are no details on it to ogle at and
is best viewed from a distance for appearances sake. (Just ogle it as it drives on by. LOL)
Polys = 865

CREDITS:
I tip my hat to the following train sim lovers who have helped me immensely,

hiball3985, aka Jim, yet, another tester with suggestions, ideas and lots of help as well.
charlie, aka Charlie, for helping me make the proper carspawner adjustments.
johnfrum, aka John, for helping with the glowing lights.
Johnflys2, aka John, for helping test it.

Many many thanks, guys.]]> Wed, 16 May 2012 16:10:04 +0000 1393 http://www.elvastower.com/forums/index.php?/files/file/1392-a-simple-white-picket-fence/
1. One 50 foot section with both end posts.
2. One 50 foot extension without end posts.
3. One 10 foot section with both end posts.
4. One 10 foot extension without end posts.
5. One single end post.
6. One single fence board.
A .jpg image is provided for understanding all the parts.
You'll need the single board to fill in the gap(s) when making a long run otherwise it'll make perfect 50 foot square fencing to go around a property line.

Poly count is 730 for the full 50 foot section.

Have fun, enjoy,

]]> Tue, 15 May 2012 11:12:51 +0000 1392 http://www.elvastower.com/forums/index.php?/files/file/1391-an-old-motel/
Polys = 339

Snow textures by Noisemaker, a.k.a. Steven West.

Enjoy!

]]> Mon, 14 May 2012 18:08:11 +0000 1391 http://www.elvastower.com/forums/index.php?/files/file/1390-fbl-heritage-units-pack-2/ FBL 2100- FBL Operation Life Saver Logo
FBL 2107- Western Pacific Heritage Unit

Along with the FBL Heritage Units catch phrase "Proud Heritage, Mighty Future"

there will be more of these heritage units on the way so keep an eye out for them.
Check the Read-Me file in all the both the engines folders to find the websites where all the things you need for these engines.

Models by SLI. Blank textures by James Taylor. Repaint by Alex Florack.]]> Sun, 13 May 2012 16:39:30 +0000 1390 http://www.elvastower.com/forums/index.php?/files/file/1389-antique-automobiles-1958-1969/
These have been stuck on my hard drive for the last five years. I'm cleaning some things out.

1958 Ford F100
1959 Chevrolet Apache
1960 Chevrolet C10
1960 Ford Falcon
1961 Lincoln Continental
1962 Plymouth Valiant
1963 Ford Falcon (Mayberry Fire Department)
1963 Ford Galaxie
1964 Chevrolet Impala
1965 Dodge Coronet (two of these)
1966 Chevorlet Nova
1969 Chevrolet C10

These are 'stuck' in between generations. They are based off of modern photos, and little texture editing has been done. This means that the paint on them may be old and dull, and perhaps not look right on your historical route. Or, the paint may be a modern scheme, and therefor not historical.

All of these at the correct height for the Carspawner, so when you place them as a Static Object, they'll be 0.1m off of the ground.

These were made in gmax, using photos from Ebay Motors, Old Car Trader, and sites like that.

Feel free to repaint these if you care to, to further 'tune' them for your route. If you do that, and don't mind sharing that work, you may upload it to any file library you like, but also upload it to Elvas Tower. I used Photoshop 7 for the textures, so if you're interested in those source files, then let me know.

I apologize for sitting on these for so long, I'm sure that someone would have enjoyed them more than I did over that time period. I never even loaded them into a route.

James]]> Fri, 11 May 2012 18:32:23 +0000 1389 http://www.elvastower.com/forums/index.php?/files/file/1388-pe-tower-car-00157/ 6.2 METER AND 7.2 METER TROLLEY HEIGHTS PROVIDED
3D MESH CREATED BY TIM W. MUIR
ARTWORK CREATED BY TIM W. MUIR, USING SOME ELEMENTS FROM CGTEXTURES.COM AND OTHER SOURCES
COUPLER TEXTURES DERIVED FROM PHOTOS BY STEVE THOMPSON

You must have the Bin Patch Installed to Operate This Motor.

This is a model of Pacific Electric's tower car #00157, built of wood with steel underframe by PE at their 7th & Alameda Shops in 1915 as number 1730. It was built to operate on both 600-volt and 1200 volt overhead. This was PE's finest tower car and up to 1929 when tower car #00162 was built, the only one capable of operating over the San Bernardino line. This made 00157 an extremely important piece of equipment and when it was time for overhauls, the tower car was given precedence over everything else in the shops. 1730 was renumbered in 1931 to 00157, in accordance with parent company Southern Pacific's numbering system. 00157 served until 1957 and in the following year was donated to the Orange Empire Trolley (Railroad) Museum, where it resides today. Today's 00157 at the museum has a wider tower platform and base platform than the pre 1940 model's.

In 1936 when PE equipped all it's passenger cars with trolley contact shoes, 00157 was given a trolley wire greaser for keeping all the overhead trolley wires well lubricated from Valley Junction to San Bernardino-Riverside. This consisted of a trolley pole equipped with a cartridge containing grease sticks of PE's manufacture, made of heavy grease mixed with paraffin and graphite, cut into one-foot lengths, 2" by 1-1/2". The grease sticks were held against the wire by air pressure. Other tower cars were so equipped, such as 00162 and 00164, (and ex-1710 was rebuilt as a dedicated wire greaser car as 00150 and is now at Orange Empire RR Museum.).


Although equipped with multiple unit controls, these cars never were operated in MU since PE never installed receptacles or jumpers.

Data:

Car 00157, built in 1915 by PE
31'-0" Between Bolsters
48'-2" Over Buffers
8'-2-7/8" Inside Width
8'-10-1/2"Over Sills
9'-4-1/2" Extreme Width

Weights:
Total - 82000 lbs.

Trucks:
Type - Standard C-80-P - 84"Wheelbase
Size Journals - 5"x 9"
Wheels - 33" -750 lbs. F.C.S. Cast iron

Electrical Equipment:
Motors - 4 - GE-205-E 100 HP 600/1200 Volt
Gear ratio: - 18:56
Control - GE Type "MK" 600/1200 Volt

Brakes - Air and Hand:
Air Brakes - West. Automatic Type EL14
Compressor - One West.Type D-4-K

Braking Power - 100%


The model was created using Abacus Train Sim Modeler Pro. Textures were first created in Paint Shop Pro 7.2 on a multi-layered .psp format file, "built" as needed while the model work proceeded. The main ace from which the lion's share of textures are on is a 2048x2048 map. Bitmap copies of this file were resized to 1024x1024 to work in Train Sim Modeler Pro as the art and model progressed. Graphic utilities used to create Kuju Ace files were PSP7, AceIt and TGATool2a. Polymaster2 was used to create subobjects within the model heirarchy of parts to facilitate the trouble-free use of more than 14,000 vertices.

A second shape file, known as a "freight animation" file, is used to add two crew members and a motorman's stool. The crew members are modified models created by Tom Werb, used here with his most generous permission.

Model Data:

Main Shape:
Parts: 94
Polygons: 31,326

Freight Anim Shape:
Parts:42
Polygons: 6303


Installation and operation:
Unzip to a temporary location and move contents to your /Trains/Trainset folder. Build a consist with your favorite consist editor.

Operation of the animated parts:

Ctrl+NumPad7 actuates the trolley greaser pole. Ctrl+NumPad8 rotates the main trolley pole for reverse moves (it's center-mounted like the other PE tower car, 1716). Ctrl+NumPad9 raises the tower and opens the back doors. I had to do it this way because there aren't enough animation assignments to have all of this stuff animated on an electric. So I had to lock the front doors shut and tie in the tower with the back doors, in order to use one of the DOOR animations for the wire greaser. I tried to make the greaser a pantograph part, but it wouldn't run the motor when down and had to be always up, so I scrapped that idea. It all works pretty well the way it turned out. Just remember that door animations require the car to be stopped with brakes applied in order to operate. The key assignments for the door animations are reversed when cabs are reversed.

Credits and Thanks:

Thomas Pilder for Polymaster v2. I cannot thank you enough for this utility that has widened the scope of model making for myself and others.
Scott M. Miller for AceIt and TGATool. Utilities that I can not live without.
Paul Gausden for Shape Viewer. Indispensible!!!
Tom Werb. Supplying the TSM resource files of his excellent engine crew figures to allow me to "people" my models.
Jim Bebenroth. Enthusiastic PE equipment user and tester. Lighting tweaks.
And all those at Elvas Tower for their support over the years.

A special thanks to Michael Patris, Jim Bunte and all the contributors at Pacific Electric Railway Historical Society (http://peryhs.org/) and the Mt. Lowe Preservation Society who have been providing many photos of various cars and equipment of PE throughout it's lifespan on it's website. Without these photos much detail would have to be guessed at or not made at all.

Also, very special thanks to the late Ira Swett for his invaluable work in preserving PE photos, data, and lore and publishing many works on the subject. Most notable to this modeler are his books printed in 1964 and 1965 "Cars Of Pacific Electric" coming in 4 volumes, numbers 27, 36,37 and 38 (rare official car records and photos), with a supplemental volume #39 following with addendums and corrections. All of these volumes together total well over 800 pages and in a library bound edition (less Vol.39) weighs more than 7 lbs! Data for the box motors come from Volume 3, "Combos, RPOs, Box Motors, Work Motors, Locomotives, Tower cars and Service Cars"(Interurbans Special 37). These books show up on ebay quite often, which is where I obtained my copy.

Tim Muir
Railroad Earth Models
May 9, 2012]]> Wed, 09 May 2012 18:14:53 +0000 1388 http://www.elvastower.com/forums/index.php?/files/file/1387-right-side-cab-view-for-pe-box-motors/ Includes .cvf files for the 1430 and all the 1451-Class (PE1452cab.cvf and 1452cab_rev.cvf).

Place in respective CABVIEW folders and overwrite.

Also an updated 1451_FA.s FreightAnim file for the PE_1451 that moves the rear trainman inwards towards the center a few inches to clear the cabview when cabs are switched.

Tim Muir

Original file name: 1430-1452_Cabview_Updates.zip]]> Wed, 09 May 2012 03:26:04 +0000 1387 http://www.elvastower.com/forums/index.php?/files/file/1386-flashing-neon-sign-animated/ Just having a little fun with this one.
It has snow textures by Noisemaker, a.k.a Steven West.
It's animated to give the impression of a flashing neon sign for days and nights.
Polys are 538.

Have fun!

]]> Tue, 08 May 2012 00:36:14 +0000 1386 http://www.elvastower.com/forums/index.php?/files/file/1385-missing-sd-file-for-6-meter-pe-1453-box-motor/ My apologies for my oversight.

Tim]]> Sun, 06 May 2012 16:14:21 +0000 1385