Eric, the default settings are: size=1, embankment=1, cut=1, and Max. radius=9. As we have discussed a lot previously these default values just (to me) do not seem reasonable in that the roadway, or flat area under the track is way too wide. As I mentioned earlier, values of 1-5-5-9 produce a better result. Could we add parameters to the startup file so these values can be set there. This would allow anyone to set the values immediately on start up that seem best to them.
In the CNO&TP2 route, some of the cuts, especially those done in the 1961-63 revisions have near vertical walls or in the case of Kings Mountain, KY, the walls are in steps or terraces and extend upward more than 100 feet. Some of the cuts on the new line from Burnside to Greenwood, KY orignally were wide enough at the bottom for double track, though from 1963 through the period I worked for SR, until 1978 only single track was present. Now it is double.
I'll be putting TSRE aside for a while so as to devote more time to a education project of the "Friends of the Cumbres & Toltec". It is managed by a couple of qualified elementary school teachers and the objective is to ultimately produce free apps that can go on a cell phone. The idea is that today's kids could care less about anything that is not on that dang phone. In my day, a rite of passage was getting your first electric train. Now it is getting your first cell phone.
For example there was an incident years ago near Monero, NM when a large boulder fell on the track. An on coming engineer sensed something was not right before he saw it and set the brakes, stopping short of the boulder. Maintenance folks were afraid to use dynamite for fear the concussion would bring down more rock. It was way too big to move by hand, so they summoned some help from the local Apache group and as a book puts it "the indians came rushing over the hills, but it was not a war party, they had their bulldozer with them". But that would not move it either so eventually a permanent line revision was made AROUND the boulder.
Jerry Sullivan
In the CNO&TP2 route, some of the cuts, especially those done in the 1961-63 revisions have near vertical walls or in the case of Kings Mountain, KY, the walls are in steps or terraces and extend upward more than 100 feet. Some of the cuts on the new line from Burnside to Greenwood, KY orignally were wide enough at the bottom for double track, though from 1963 through the period I worked for SR, until 1978 only single track was present. Now it is double.
I'll be putting TSRE aside for a while so as to devote more time to a education project of the "Friends of the Cumbres & Toltec". It is managed by a couple of qualified elementary school teachers and the objective is to ultimately produce free apps that can go on a cell phone. The idea is that today's kids could care less about anything that is not on that dang phone. In my day, a rite of passage was getting your first electric train. Now it is getting your first cell phone.
For example there was an incident years ago near Monero, NM when a large boulder fell on the track. An on coming engineer sensed something was not right before he saw it and set the brakes, stopping short of the boulder. Maintenance folks were afraid to use dynamite for fear the concussion would bring down more rock. It was way too big to move by hand, so they summoned some help from the local Apache group and as a book puts it "the indians came rushing over the hills, but it was not a war party, they had their bulldozer with them". But that would not move it either so eventually a permanent line revision was made AROUND the boulder.
Jerry Sullivan
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