We currently live above a Norfolk Southern mainline, lovingly referred to as the Rathole but officially known as the CNOTP Second District. One of our resident historians, Jerry Sullivan, spent many hours inspecting these tracks when he worked for the Southern Railroad. The railroad has been good neighbors to us, and last month they took things to a new level -- a 24+ hour bonfire, complete...
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Hope everyone's having a great summer. Ours has definitely had a little adventure and drama.
We currently live above a Norfolk Southern mainline, lovingly referred to as the Rathole but officially known as the CNOTP Second District. One of our resident historians, Jerry Sullivan, spent many hours inspecting these tracks when he worked for the Southern Railroad. The railroad has been good neighbors to us, and last month they took things to a new level -- a 24+ hour bonfire, complete... -
Is it just me, or has the year been flying by?... Numbers rarely lie, and yes, there's been a slight uptick in activity as we see every time schools close for the academic year... And sure enough, I noticed that the warning lights in town are dark for the school zone. Starting in a few days, we'll have a few less trips to pick up grandkids from school (they get out much later than other districts around us).
A few of us pack up and leave for the summer, sometimes to do other jobs,... -
I know, I should have posted something yesterday for April Fools, but the reality of Amtrak merging with Greyhound just didn't seem too far off anymore. Nor would telling people I sold the site to SpaceX who was going to now reform this as SpaceSim.com or something with an X in it.
Truth is I've been a bit busy the last eight weeks, mostly with finishing up stuff that needed to be done around our property. After almost a year of planning and construction, we finally moved into our... -
A slightly belated Happy New Year... and a happy Snowmaggedon if you happen to be in the current storm Fern's path. The site's servers should be unaffected, so feel free to download as long as you have power & internet...
I was ready to write this up two weeks ago, until the stunning loss in the first round of the NFL playoffs of my beloved Green Bay Packers to the soon to be Gary or Arlington Heights Bears, which had me in a mandatory mourning period.
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I was told today (and confirmed) that FlightSim.com has changed ownership yet again, and the new owners are going to be closing down both their file library as well as their forums "temporarily"....
As someone just said to me an hour ago... Imagine the situation OUR community would be in today had we not obtained our independence three years ago...
It's heartbreaking, and hopefully the forum content isn't lost forever.
If any of you are active in...
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Hello, I'm a newcomer to OpenRails. Ever since I had MSTS I wanted to try the massive looking Monon route that has been released for some time now. However... -
Hi ! I converted Crawford Hill tracks to Us1 tracks and generally is ok. But I want to use US3 tracks as well. I changed file name to US3 in tsre, but... -
Someone needs to model the current generation of EOTs. These are made by DPS Electronics out of Bozeman MT. They are made using a composite material... -
Runing the Blue Comet lines on the NY and LB portion I have encountered a weird issue. At MP 49 Asbury Park to Deal MP50 the track and scenery objects... -
Let me rephrase the question: how come so many of the things that are supposed to work in Open Rails don't work, auxiliary water tenders being one example?... -
Hi Folks,
It's truly time to provdie an alternative to DEMEX and its 32-bit limitations. I've been working on a new tool called SCOtopo for... -
For my route I want to expand to a town called liege in Belgium, it has two blastfurnaces and a steelmill. But to get there I first have to cross a train... -
I'm just curious as to why there have not been any "authentic" repaints of locomotives in the various 250th Heritage paint schemes released... -
Since I'm building the Route with MSTS Route Editor ( my choice ) I figure I'd post information and screens of my progress here along with some history... -
I'm currently working on a large collection of rebuilt 40- and 50-foot Canadian boxcar variants for the sim. The models are by Navs (they're excellent...