Screenshot of the Month - August 2014 - Submissions Open

[Ladusa]

It's my birthday and I'll be taking a day off work anyhow.

You should go to work so that your co-workers can buy you a cake

Wonder... Where I live, I must buy a cake to coworkers when I have a celebration :/ Wally tradition seems A LOT better!

But your celebration is only one per year, but if you have 10 co-workers... Better is giving 1 cake than 10 cakes

[ISA]

But your celebration is only one per year, but if you have 10 co-workers... Better is giving 1 cake than 10 cakes

That's a good point!
Happy birthday kamnet!

[qcm]

In my job, I don't work in an office with other people, I'm on the road. But my wife is baking me a cake on Sunday and on Monday I'm going to watch my oldest son perform as part of the opening act for a jazz band show. His first non-school gig.

Happy birthday and good luck to your son!

[wallyweb]

Location: Québec

Voyon donc! Pas sérieux?

[qcm]

Location: Québec

Voyon donc! Pas sérieux?

bin ouais! j'pensais être le seul québécois qui joue a ottd haha

[wallyweb]

bin ouais! j'pensais être le seul québécois qui joue a ottd haha

Moi j'jou les deux, OTTD pi TTDP.
Y en a quelque d'autre québécois, mais chui de Nouveau Brunswick depuis plusieurs années.

Does Google translate joual?

[kamnet]

All submissions are now closed and voting is open for the March 2013 theme. The theme is YOUR HOME. Submissions were also encourage to submit a real-life photo of what inspired their work, but was not a requirement, just some extra eye candy. Good luck to all!

FROM ISA: Its 2013 summer & here they all meet. Fresh European locomotive (Stadler Flirt EMU and DMU - first of its kind), Old USSR/Russian (Dr1-A, 2ET116, 4T10S, ER1, etc) & old North American power (C36-7)! Yes! We a lot of different locomotives here, most of the continents are presented (even some from Asia General Electric Evolution TE33AC are put together at Kazakhstan).
Lets speak short how the "old folks" got here.
-USSR & Russian locomotives came when we were under Soviet rule, as most of the Eastern Europe.
-North American C36-7 came in 2002 when the state sold the Estonian Railway to a private company from the US. Total 58 was bought w/ 19 older version C30-7A. They were modernized & converted into 1520 mm gauge! It all went bad & Estonia bought the company, but the locomotive stayed behind as they replace most of the older USSR/Russian locomotives like 2TE116 and M62.

Now back to the present! The big INVENT!!!
Huge step forward in Estonian passenger service!

July 1 2013 after the test period (started November 2012), the first Stadler Flirt started the operation, in 26 July all the old EMU's were put to stand still & were replaced with new 18 (12 three-car and 6 four-car trains) Stadler Flirts EMU's. From there on we waited the new DMU's. They are now arriving from first of January 2014 until 24th of June 2014 and for that time all the new locomotives should be up & running! Take into note that Elron's (State owned company whats operating these trains) 20 (6 two-car, 8 three-car, 6 four-car trains) ordered diesels (DMU's) has been the first time FLIRT DMU-s were produced!

So the pictures what I have sent is showing how the different consists (2,3,4 wagon versions) of Flirts are arriving into Tallinn Ülemiste marshaling yard & add some realism, a lot of "old folks" with their rolling stock! Of course the real life picture in the Ülemiste marshaling yard w/ smaller pictures with the locomotives mentioned above!

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ISA's reference photo

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FROM LADUSA: Czechoslovakian train station and depot in 1970s

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[kamnet]

March 2014 Votings - theme is YOUR HOME

FROM PURNO: Here's my submission for the screenshot contest. It's not the most impressive place, but it's where I live: http://is.gd/PRVOqf

A small canal: http://is.gd/IOM33s; a separated bus lane: http://is.gd/QXl4FR; a small bikeway diving underneath the busway reaching the same height level as the canal: http://is.gd/jNXtWm; & the bus stop w/ a small plaza & supermarket: http://is.gd/8xML5o

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FROM QCM: This is Montreal, my home town. At the center is the Gare Centrale (central railway station), which opened in 1943. At the bottom, with the pink pavement, is the Place du Canada Park. Above the Gare Centrale you can see the Saint-Andrew And Saint-Paul Church. And just besides the church is the Bell Center, home of the Montreal Canadiens hockey team. My reference image is here: http://is.gd/MUKB1A.

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[kamnet]

March 2014 Voting - theme is YOUR HOME

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[Densha]

They're all amazing, but I can't help but lol at the fact that Quast65 and I appear to be living in the same town.
That's an awesome reproduction of the good old Delft station! I actually was planning on doing the same for this competition but I didn't have time.
I presume the typical modern Dutch houses and canal houses are non-released, self-produced graphics?

[qcm]

you forgot my reference image

[Quast65]

They're all amazing, but I can't help but lol at the fact that Quast65 and I appear to be living in the same town.
That's an awesome reproduction of the good old Delft station! I actually was planning on doing the same for this competition but I didn't have time.
I presume the typical modern Dutch houses and canal houses are non-released, self-produced graphics?

Thnx! Funny to meet another Delft resident Three of us now from there. THS, who drew the Delft station comes from there too (lives in the USA now though).
The modern Dutch houses are from this GRF: http://www.tt-forums.net/viewtopic.php? ... 0#p1093132
Although I did code the graphics from that into new-objects so I could place them the way I wanted.

The Canal Houses were drawn by Caelan years ago: http://www.tt-forums.net/viewtopic.php? ... 00#p415000
Coded them as objects too, but these are not available in a public GRF.

[Purno]

Hmm.... my screenshot is stretched out of proportions and the links in the description aren't working.

[Densha]

Thnx! Funny to meet another Delft resident Three of us now from there. THS, who drew the Delft station comes from there too (lives in the USA now though).
The modern Dutch houses are from this GRF: http://www.tt-forums.net/viewtopic.php? ... 0#p1093132
Although I did code the graphics from that into new-objects so I could place them the way I wanted.

The Canal Houses were drawn by Caelan years ago: http://www.tt-forums.net/viewtopic.php? ... 00#p415000
Coded them as objects too, but these are not available in a public GRF.

Thanks for the link to the GRF!
I noticed the DDM-1 consist has the cab facing forward. Is that actually possible with the Dutch train set? I noticed the DACH set supports this but it doesn't in my version of the Dutch train set. Or could that be due to the fact that I use the 2.0 version and not a test version?

[kamnet]

you forgot my reference image

I included it in your comments.

My reference image is here: http://is.gd/MUKB1A.

[qcm]

you forgot my reference image

I included it in your comments.

My reference image is here: http://is.gd/MUKB1A.

Oh, I didn't see that. ok.
But then why attach the image to some, and just add the link to others?
Not complaining though, I'm sure people will see it still and it won't skew the votes right

[kamnet]

Those that had links that could be found online, I put them in the comments. Those that couldn't because they ere custom made I included here. But, were judging just based on the screenshots, not on how much it might compare to the real places. Some chose not to submit any at all.

[Purno]

But, were judging just based on the screenshots, not on how much it might compare to the real places.

I disagree. This month challenge was to recreate a real life place. And since the theme was "Your Home", you are restricted by the place you live. Since not everyone might live in a spectacular place, not everyone can make a spectacular screenshot.

Therefor, I think every contestant did a good job on recreating his home, and I won't submit any vote.

[Ladusa]

Hmmm, I´m lazy to read foreign languages which I can bad I saw theme "Your home" and that was all importatnt for me. So no reference image. Sorry about that.

[Bambus]

They're all amazing, but I can't help but lol at the fact that Quast65 and I appear to be living in the same town.
That's an awesome reproduction of the good old Delft station! I actually was planning on doing the same for this competition but I didn't have time.
I presume the typical modern Dutch houses and canal houses are non-released, self-produced graphics?

Lolled also. The Hague resident (and former TU student) here

As of a few months ago however, your screen is not a genuine reproduction of the location. There shouldn't be any buildings left standing other than the historical station