[charland]

Haven't see my little diner in a long time Tim, it was replaced in Fonda with a service station some time before my last version of the route.

Paul :-)

[steved]

Excellent series of shots Tim.
Your PE has always been one of my favorites. Going way back.

Randy

[timmuir]

charland, on 30 August 2023 - 08:01 AM, said:

Haven't see my little diner in a long time Tim, it was replaced in Fonda with a service station some time before my last version of the route.

Paul :-)

It's a regular on quite a number of my old routes. I made a Coca sign to go with it years ago.

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Excellent series of shots Tim.
Your PE has always been one of my favorites. Going way back.

Randy

Thanks, Randy. It's one of mine, too, even though it's just an unfinished "shelf layout" for now. I still work on it from time to time...

Car #555 enters the private right of way.



Crossing one of the two attractive PE concrete viaducts here below town.







Bridge number two, on the approach to the end of the route.







Coming into the south yards and end of the line for the "Triple Nickle".







This is practically a book!

[timmuir]

Meanwhile the street cleaning crew hooks up Sprinkler No.037 to a city hydrant for a drink...another old timer from way back.



This is an older repaint.



Tim,

Those shots of the PET really bring some things to mind and give me some ideas to try.

[steved]

Sweet.

Randy

[pnrailway]

Tim,

Those shots of the PET really bring some things to mind and give me some ideas to try as soon as I can.

[Pery Scope]

Thanks Tim. :)
It's also nice that your PE route hasn't completely disappeared and that you're always building on it.
I looked in my archive and pulled out my upgrade from the Mountain Electric. But during the conversion, I noticed quite quickly that it is easier to build a new route than to convert it. So I more or less abandoned the project and started the new Bridgeport Electric. But here are the pictures:
















I also have to thank Paul Charland at this point. Without the routes he built (mainly the ConnRiver), Bridgeport Electric would not exist. Thank you Paul. :)

[charland]

I thought about building the Cornwall Street Railway so I could use my buildings more. I started making road sections for city streets but the snag I ran into was Cornwall (Ontario) comes out on Google Earth with a 5 degree skew and in was almost like having to make each intersection individually... so I dropped the idea. Nice to see someone got some use out of the buildings though Malte.

Paul :-)

[eric from trainsim]

I'm more of a country guy so interurbans are more interesting to me than streetcars, but I do like what y'all are doing here.

Genma Saotome, on 27 August 2023 - 12:25 PM, said:

I'd like to but it's almost impossible for TSRE to lay the road shapes I've made... no streets, no streetcars.

The specific issue is due to putting an arch into a street and then building it out lane number by lane number. They all have to have the same altitude on their origin so the fit together properly. That puts the paths well above that. It works for placing rails but not for streets. Goku tried to fix it... it's still very hard to get things done.

That's slowed things down on the streetcar front rather severely.

I don't think that's not the fault of TSRE -- it's the fault of the way that TSection definition is set up. The only offset allowed for a multi-path shape is left or right of the origin point.

If we ever do a TSection 2.0 definition, I can see where the offset paths should have both a X and Z offset so that you could do arched streets or multi-track mainlines where the center tracks are indeed a few inches higher than the outer tracks for drainage purposes.

[timmuir]

Malte, so are these shots from the Mountain Electric? I used to run that route, years ago. It had some nice features I enjoyed a lot, but I can't recall most of it, now. It was a long time ago!

I'm looking at your city streets and see you have curbing. Are those objects your own? I sure like the junction going on in the second to the last panel. Always a high point of interest, for me, as are car house scenes. It warms my heart to see my old Sellwod Carbarn being used, too. :thumbup3:

Yes, I still have three versions of the old PE routes on my hard drive. But I usually only run the latest, the "PE West", set in pre-1934, seen here. The other two iterations were set in 1949.

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Tim,

Those shots of the PET really bring some things to mind and give me some ideas to try as soon as I can.
Paul

Really? I can't wait! :)