[august1929]

Almost... :whistling:

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[timmuir]

More, Rod, more! I'd like to see a steeple cab :whistling: :thumbup3:

[Genma Saotome]

timmuir, on 24 July 2017 - 09:43 AM, said:

So, Dave, that shot of the PE Ten...did you build that overhead? That's amazing. Is that Sacramento Northern Tracks?

Key System.

The section shown in the screenshot was a trial. I wanted to see how hard it was to do a curve as it really would be equipped. It's hard and I didn't finish it... tho looking at it again I can see there isn't a lot left to add to make this curve complete. The real problem I see is repeating the exercise on the handful of other curves (mostly switches) as each one will be specific to the type of track it is over.

Here are a couple more contributions to this wire thread (click on image to increase to full size):

Guy wires under a water tower.




Cantenary to right, single overhead wire to the left.




Closeup of the parts used to do overhead wire: Red insulator between clasping guy wires; Galvanized "break" clasp; Clamp over guy wire ends.




Key System metal cantenary pole. High voltage above, HV glass insulators, double cantenary below.




Overall view of cantenary pole. Key System powerhouse in background. And that's not your average MSTS roadbed you see.




Tim's utility car coming up from the underpass at the SP Main, heading east, checking the system.


Anyone know how to get rid of the black info lines after you pause to take a screenshot??

[Hamza97]

Under Options tab in >> General >> Untick "Control Confirmations"...... :thumbup3:

[Genma Saotome]

Thanks Hamza!

[timmuir]

Dave.
As impressive as your wire furniture is, a lot of it can be modeled 2D since it is mostly so far from view it doesn't need to be completely three dimensional. I've only just begun building my hangers with only "front and back" polys, no top, bottom, or either side (edge) polys, only the parts facing the track on either side:





I was making the strain insulators this way for some time before this. Just a front and back poly set that looks OK while running down the track.





In earlier times I did make more three dimensional wire furniture with a decided impact on my PC's performance. It sure does look nice, though! I just wish OR's wire followed the same path as MS wires do, all my furniture is set up for MSTS wire, so some of OR wire misses the hangers, some by quite a lot. I spent way too much time on this! ;)





:goodnight:

[august1929]

Beautiful work Dave & Tim...

And now - SN wires (with Steeple Cabs) :)

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[august1929]

and a few more (wires that is...)

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[timmuir]

Ahh, there's my baby! Rick did a great job of porting her over to RS. They never looked so good! The SN route looks fantastic. Maybe one of these days....


But for now.







( Contributions go to the Western Railway Museum from my part of the proceeds for the use of the steeple cabs. )

[paulytechnic]

Yeah, I gotta get me a copy of that Sacramento Northern route for RailWorks (or whatever it's called this year!) And Tim, that's very cool about the contributions to the Western Railway Museum. I used to live just down the road from there in Fairfield, and always loved visiting and riding around on the trollies in their great collection!