Another route in progress.

[CSRX]

Apparently I enjoy torturing myself with new routes with odd sized and shaped yards on grades.

This route will basically be something for me to play around with from time to time as a break from the Mountain Subdivision route and the Mattawakeag Sub that has pretty much taken the far back burner..

I have a Vermont Railway route in progress too, but I personally lost interest in doing that one... Probably be scrapped and restarted with better terrain dems anyways. Didn't have much started on it anyways besides Whitehall yard..

Anyways, a little bit of yard work, still have a way to go with the little shop tracks, mechanical tracks and other odd ball tracks.

I ended up getting demex to work, sort of. Had to select each tile individually when created terrain... So that is a bit of work and gets old quick.. must be a windows 10/11 issue with demex not working properly..

[pwillard]

It's too bad we don't have a Open Rails fan who is also a Cartographer (or whatever you call a person who deals with Topology Maps) who can help develop a DEMEX replacement.

[landnrailroader]

Yes, it is too bad. I have a full MSTS install and DEMEX on a antique XP machine and I can create new routes as long as it holds up but if I need to take it in for repair, most replacement parts will not support anything oldere than -10, probably -11 soon. I have -10 on a newer machine, upgraded last year but I could not get MSTS to install and without that, DEMEX or RouteRiter will not work. Yes, I know you can do terrain in TSRE but .hgt files are very poor on resolution. I am continuing on the N. Montana route (Milwaukee Road). I copied Harlowton from the RMD-East route and with his permissioin, most of Great Falls from M. Stefan's GN hiline route though he has since put most of the objects in the library. I am now inserting roads. In many cases, roads that appear to be parallel to the track, are actually on the old roadbed, and then the question is whether there was a road at all prior to the Milwlaukee abandonment in 1980. I will need to adjust the terrain in Harlowton and Great Falls. This line runs 260 miles from Harlowton to Great Falls (mile 200) and then on to the end of track at Agawam (260). A little of the line west of Great Falls is in use now, as well the the Central Montana RR. One of the tunnels began to break up around 1960 from shifting terrain which resulted in having the lining of a tunnel at the bottom of a deep cut. Trains continued to use the tunnel until abandonment, but now it is bypassed by dirt road that I guess is a hiking/biking trail.

Jerry Sullilvan

[scottb613]

Hi Folks,

Yeah - we could really use a DEMEX replacement. TSRE is unusable for this task - from my perspective.

This is running up the hill from Martins Creek towards Bath on the LHR with the highest resolution DEM I could get to work. On Rich’s original LHR - the DEM was so poor that the mine pond - the creak stream bed - even parts of the road were nonexistent - as we didn’t have anything with this resolution - it was just one smooth blob.

The amount of detail available in this DEM is a game changer.

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Regards,
Scott

[pwillard]

It takes someone who also really understands the format of Route World files... (Impossible task at this point)

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[eric]

It's not knowledge of the World files that are the limitation.

It's the Tile and Terrain file formats -- .T and *_raw files

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[CSRX]

I was able to get Sean to do the dem work for the MEC Mountain Subdivision, and it worked out well. I'd ask him again for this route, but I know him and the other guys have been pretty busy.
I did ask Jerry prior, but at the moment this is just a small little get away, so I'm not totally diving into a 100+ mile route just yet.


However, A new version of Demex would be awesome, for use on windows 10/11. I know TSRE uses hgst files, but those as mentioned, are extremely low quality and not worth dealing with at all.

Pete, I may need to ask a favor of your building work, on building a large car/engine shop along the transfer table. I would do this myself, but I have given up with trying to learn and understand blender, and this seems like it would be a very daunting task in TSM.