NS Pocahontas (Pokey 2.0)

[R. Steele]

Thanks, Kenny...well done work certainly bumps up the visual presentation of the route...one a my favorites for running coal drags.

[kennyeaton]

Thanks Snowman and Mr. Steele.

I could only find one photo in winter. I'm sure there's more somewhere.

Matewan.

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[qballbandit]

Very nice work!
So I am assuming you painted the snow. If so, great idea. Curious, is it normal to have snow on parts of the ground but not in higher elevated mountain areas? Either way, nice mods

[yellowdog]

If it's a light snow, yes. Either because the tree limbs keep you from seeing it. Or because the sun doesn't get down into the valley to melt it.

[kennyeaton]

Very nice work!
So I am assuming you painted the snow. If so, great idea. Curious, is it normal to have snow on parts of the ground but not in higher elevated mountain areas? Either way, nice mods

It's not like the Rocky Mountains. Elevation plays a big role in that. The Rockies have those 12 to 14,000 foot peaks. With this route and this is accurate heights, Williamson is at 665 feet above sea-level with the tops of the mountains around town at 1,500 to 1,600 feet above sea-level. Bluefield is the highest point of the Norfolk and Western Railway at about 2,600 feet and you could probably add another 900 to1,200 feet for the surrounding mountain top. They are densely tree covered so if you could see huge white areas, this would be due timbering by logging companies or coal companies cutting the tops of the mountains off.

[ossie]

I don't know anything about snow Kenny, but all your shots look fantastic! I haven't run Pocahontas for many years but I can certainly appreciate the changes you're making to the route. Great job!

[spoony1999]

That looks fantastic, I was actually running the Pokey last week in OR. It was one of the first freeware routes I downloaded years ago, and it holds a special place in my heart

[landnrailroader]

It is a very well done route. I sent my Clinch-Appalachia route to the author of that route to see if he does anything with it. Kenny is a former NS conductor that worked in that area. I have the track mostly done for the next district to Portsmouth, OH, and the CSX Big Sandy Sub. & branches, some of which are long gone.

Jerry Sullivan
(aka landnrailroader)

[kennyeaton]

Thanks Jerry.

One of our members here created a few coal company stores for me to use in the Pokey. I have his permission to send these to you. Three of the structures are Eastern Coal Company located at Stone, KY. Then maybe a half mile up the holler was Tierney store, then a mile or so farther up was Octavia store.

Drop these in the Pond Creek branch of the Scioto Division you are working on

Kenny

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[kennyeaton]

Hey guys,

Getting close to finishing it up. Working west to east, I have it finished to Falls Mills crossover. Another 10 miles or so. I could possibly have it ready to upload right after Thanksgiving.

Kenny

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[dlfrenchmd]

Kenny, this looks great. Need a Dukes of Hazard campsite with those gals, since they would probably come up from Hazard to camp on Tug Fork. I've been running some on the Pokey 1. Great fun. Found some Alco centuries in N&W colors to run the heavy coal. Too cool.

[kennyeaton]

Dlfrenchmd,

Thank you. I've placed quite a few scenes like this along the way. You'll never catch them all running the route for the first time. I'm sure it's going to take running it in both directions quite a few times to find them all. The most simple scene I did is a man taking a leak just behind a tree. Maybe we can get Eric to offer up a free download from the store to the first one that finds him.

It won't be much longer to finish. I'm at the bottom of the hill in Bluefield, VA.

Kenny

[landnrailroader]

My wife had to learn railroad lingo when we married 30 years ago. When I said that I had let water, it's like what?, well pee. Then "Set off a load" well that is #2.

Jerry

[scottb613]

Hi Kenny,

Sorry - missed your post about the dead link - they moved it to Open Source on GitHub:
GitHub - Stehfyn/Legacy_DDS_Utilities: Nvidia's DDS Utilities 8.31.1127.1645 from their Legacy Texture Tools

This program will allow you to create DDS Texture Files - from the command line from various source texture file formats - I prefer TGA. I also use BAT files - HEAVILY - to export and process all the texture files on my models. It makes every export painless and keeps an uncompressed original copy of my textures - in TGA format.

Beautiful work on that route - sir.


Regards,
Scott

[CSRX]

My wife had to learn railroad lingo when we married 30 years ago. When I said that I had let water, it's like what?, well pee. Then "Set off a load" well that is #2.

Jerry

"Water or watering the rocks" when we say it over the radio.
I've heard "check the tire pressure" for the other.

If we can't have fun making up sayings, what's the point of working? Haha


Kenny, these updates look great!