Happy New Year to everyone!
After a long vacation, I finally reunion with my own PC again! I am glad to see our forum is alive and kicking during the long holiday. These are some pics captured in the computer game TrainZ Simulator by me and my family members who love trains. Some captured moments of the 3D NYCentral Dreyfuss Hudson and PRR's legendary duplexes racing for fun! Videos will be uploaded asap, please enjoy!
(The S1 on the left is freeware which has been released a few years. We re-skinned and improved the texture of it for better realism. )
(Player can customize the trains fleet number)
We converted and customized some cars from N&W The Powhatan Arrow into PRR's twins-unit dining car, therefore some details are not accurate due to technical difficulties (including the number of golden strips and the door on the Full-dinning car) It can't be fixed without creating a new 3D model of it.
Jones 3D Modeling Club https://www.youtube.com/Jones3DModelingClub
Jones1945Welcome back, BaltACD. Thank you for providing the historically accurate details of how the engines were changed at Harmon! It would be interesting to see the Century and all of its sections changing engines at Harmon. IIRC, sections of The 20th Century Limited were 15 mins apart from each other. If there were three sections of the Century, the last section would arrive Harmon 45mins later than the first train wasn't it? Btw, you could drive the Century in the Trainz simulator. But the route in the video is not available for purchases...
Btw, you could drive the Century in the Trainz simulator. But the route in the video is not available for purchases...
I can't say that the move I detailed was used - however, if the move displayed was used the car knockers would be standing there for five or more minutes without a engine attached to the train and the clock would be ticking.
One thing you learn working with T&E personnel - they KNOW HOW to get the job done with a minimum amount of work in a minimum amount of time.
Never too old to have a happy childhood!
Welcome back, BaltACD. Thank you for providing the historically accurate details of how the engines were changed at Harmon! It would be interesting to see the Century and all of its sections changing engines at Harmon. IIRC, sections of The 20th Century Limited were 15 mins apart from each other. If there were three sections of the Century, the last section would arrive Harmon 45mins later than the first train wasn't it?
Jones1945An "update" from K&L TrainZ, a nice presentation of the legendary history of The 20th Century Limited.
A couple of nits to pick. The engine change at Harmon is depicted wrong if only 5 minutes is allowed for the change. The electric engine would pull ahead far enough that the Hudson could come in behind it clearing the switch back to the train and then while the Hudson was going back to couple up the electric would clear the main. As depicted the engine change would take upto 10 minutes.
Arriving LaSalle Street Station the James Whitcomb Riley is shown departing, the Riley operated in and out of the Illinois Central's station down closer to the Lake Michigan waterfront.
Beyond the nits, a great CGI video!
An "update" from K&L TrainZ, a nice presentation of the legendary history of The 20th Century Limited.
Overmod The interesting comparison is S1 to S1.
The interesting comparison is S1 to S1.
That can be arranged.
How about 25 T1s vs 25 T1s?
Jones1945haha. I will try recording it using the Window 10 built-in function. But the video file will be quite big. Stay tuned, Firelock76!
That is why YouTube exists.
Dreyfuss. I beg your pardon. I probably dropped the second s due to excited anticipation of the turkey Lady Firestorm was cooking.
" L' Affaire Dreyfus?" Hey, I know all about that, I've seen "The Life Of Emile Zola!"
Great film!
Firelock76Oh boy, let us know who wins!
Why bother; it's the wrong comparison. If you need to run a J3a for some unaccountable reason, at least give it a fair handicap by leaving all that tin off.
(And please, for my sake if no one else's, the stylist is DREYFUSS. The other spelling is a Frenchman unduly accused of treason in the 19th Century. Or an investment brand...)
Thanks! As cool as that S-1 is (was?) I have to admit I'm rooting for the Dreyfus Hudson, I've got a family connection with the Central.
haha. I will try recording it using the Window 10 built-in function. But the video file will be quite big. Stay tuned, Firelock76!
Oh boy, let us know who wins!
An update from K&L:
After 20 years of waiting ( My first PC was purchased in 1998), I finally have a chance to arrange a "train race" between the NYC J3a and PRR duplexes. I am gonna finalize the engine config file of my S1 for the "Battle of the Century"
: )
It looks like Dreyfuss met Andy Warhol. I believe different colors represent different 3D parts of the engine in that pic. We can see the same feature in those professional construction engineering software.
Holly cow! Dreyfuss goes psychadelic!
Trains, trains, wonderful trains. The more you get, the more you toot!
Remarkable! Olive Dennis lives!
BaltACD From several years ago One nit to pick - No B&O CPL's for signals.
From several years ago
One nit to pick - No B&O CPL's for signals.
I have this one as well, It was Olive Dennis' iconic work. The cars didn't have the interior but I reskin all the windows with better texture; a trick used in the era of Microsoft Train Simulator.
MILW's Class A:
Yes, they are very well detailed too. The game itself doesn't require a very powerful computer spec, a brand new computer from five years ago could handle it, but player better equips a graphics card for it.
Those are pretty darn gorgeous!
They do! My family love their works and have quite a lot of their product on my computer. Pennsy fans will love their collection. They are probably the most active 3D modeler who still making American steam locomotives for games. Their works are user-friendly which allows the user to reskin (repaint), exchange train trucks as well as editing of the config file. My first complete PRR Fleet of Modernism train set on my computer was modified from their works. My daughter contacted them for a PRR S1, but they told her that they are very busy and can't accept new project request until summer 2019.
My, they have excellent taste in trains, don't they?
(Original Thread Title: 3D NYCentral Dreyfuss Hudson and 3D PRR S1 #6100 2018)
In case you missed it! Some folks from K&L Trainz are making a 3D NYCentral Dreyfuss Hudson and the 20th Century trainset for the Trainz simulator. Classic Trains in computer simulator, stay tuned if you are interested.
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