[johnfrum]

-JF-

[B & O GUY]

Now Johnfrum!

That is some seriously good looking steam locomotive smoke and steam locomotive! Where did you get those smoke textures from?
You also have a good amount of smoke volume and height. She looks like she's working and not loafing along.

And that cat apparently was just an occaisonal visitor to the rail yard as he still has all of his tail. So I guess his name
isn't "Stubby".

What route is that? Wherever it is that locomotive looks right at home.

Allen

[johnfrum]

Allen,

The smoke texture is "trusmok.zip" by Harold Clitheroe, available in the file library at Train-sim.com. I thought Harold's original texture was a shade too blue, so I modified it slightly to suit my mix of coal-burning (on the mainline) and wood-burning (on the logging branches) locomotives.

The ten-wheeler is by Jon Davis. It's part of a (very reasonably priced) payware package of steam locos and other rolling stock lettered for Andre Ming's St. Louis & North Arkansas route. I've retextured it to suit my own Canada Atlantic route.

I've based the route on one division of the real-life railway as it was just prior to World War One. It includes one big city and 25 villages and hamlets scattered through Ontario bush country. There are now four logging branches -- two standard gauge and two in three-foot gauge -- feeding into the mainline, which itself is about 75 miles in length.

At the rate I'm building the V-scale version, I estimate that it'll be finished by my descendents sometime around the year 3000.

-JF-

[Tony]

hey kitty go play on the tracks, that's it kitty a little closer. :rofl: :buffalobill:

Cheers Tony 8P

[Coonskin]

ALF would be thrilled to find a cat in such a setting. :buffalobill:

Seriously:

I always enjoy seeing pics of your work, John. Something about that era. I also really like your texture work, as well as the vegetation coloration. Very nicely done.

FWIW: I have collected a wonderful folder full of TOC era rail pics from Shorpy's. Man... seeing such proto pics sure makes a feller want to create something new TOC in RE.

[atsf37l]

Tony, on 02 November 2009 - 02:16 PM, said:

hey kitty go play on the tracks, that's it kitty a little closer. :rofl: 8P

Cheers Tony :buffalobill:

Watch it! I'll sick my attack trained Burmese on ya'!

[streamline]

Hello,
it's the railroad staff who must be scared when kitty's going to play on the tracks! :buffalobill:



Keep on steamin'!
Dietmar

[Nickboy90]

streamline, on 04 November 2009 - 08:17 AM, said:

Hello,
it's the railroad staff who must be scared when kitty's going to play on the tracks! :buffalobill:

cat3a.jpg

Keep on steamin'!
Dietmar

That's it, Kitty! there's a nice juicy fish right up that pipe there under the cab of that steam loco... See it dripping water? That's it, Kitty, go get that fish... *signals for engineer to open injector blowdown valve*

8P :rofl: :)

It's at least a good screenshot! I love TLC stuff

[Tony]

streamline, on 04 November 2009 - 08:17 AM, said:

Hello,
it's the railroad staff who must be scared when kitty's going to play on the tracks! :buffalobill:

cat3a.jpg

Keep on steamin'!
Dietmar

Laufen Sie Weg vom riesigen K�tzchen kleinem poeple

Cheers Tony :rofl: