capture_5100365.jpg Tonight, as I was cleaning a drawer out, I found a bunch of USB thumb drives that were probably placed there when we moved into the house ten almost ten years ago.
Being a bit of a data pack-rat, I had to check them out to see what was on them. Two were filled with files from a job at a previous employer, and I found some of my Sketchup source files from around 2011.
What I didn't expect to find.... an early copy of Packerland dating to 2010.
This was before I discovered ScaleRail, and well before we had tools like Solution for Real Terrain that could copy Google Earth imagery onto Terrtex... So it's mostly a big green pool-table route as we called them back then.
But the track layout for Milwaukee was mostly intact, albeit without any scenery or a TDB. That was something I thought was long gone, and frankly, the trackwork was pretty extensive and still included a chunk of the Milwaukee Road Shops and Menominee Valley Yard.
While I won't do anything directly with it, I'll probably take these and merge them into the existing Packerland. I'd gotten as far as Fond Du Lac on the southward expansion before shelving it almost ten years ago.
Maybe it's time to take a distraction from TSRE, the UP-Gila, and the Harvard and finish up Fond Du Lac to Milwaukee?... Or really mess things up, and extend the New Line up from Deval to St. Francis and Milwaukee?
Who knows. But finding them was definitely a nice throwback I wasn't expecting to ever see again.
Dunno. But having the tiles and some rudimentary track to use for a reset does make that a little more tempting.
Being a bit of a data pack-rat, I had to check them out to see what was on them. Two were filled with files from a job at a previous employer, and I found some of my Sketchup source files from around 2011.
What I didn't expect to find.... an early copy of Packerland dating to 2010.
This was before I discovered ScaleRail, and well before we had tools like Solution for Real Terrain that could copy Google Earth imagery onto Terrtex... So it's mostly a big green pool-table route as we called them back then.
But the track layout for Milwaukee was mostly intact, albeit without any scenery or a TDB. That was something I thought was long gone, and frankly, the trackwork was pretty extensive and still included a chunk of the Milwaukee Road Shops and Menominee Valley Yard.
While I won't do anything directly with it, I'll probably take these and merge them into the existing Packerland. I'd gotten as far as Fond Du Lac on the southward expansion before shelving it almost ten years ago.
Maybe it's time to take a distraction from TSRE, the UP-Gila, and the Harvard and finish up Fond Du Lac to Milwaukee?... Or really mess things up, and extend the New Line up from Deval to St. Francis and Milwaukee?
Who knows. But finding them was definitely a nice throwback I wasn't expecting to ever see again.
Dunno. But having the tiles and some rudimentary track to use for a reset does make that a little more tempting.