It's amazing, the kind of stuff that's possible these days.
It's just that I don't have the time/willpower to sort every switch and grf out
Can't you zip up your config/grf dir and send it to me, Louie?
Pictures of your games (non-OT thread)
Yea some cool shots.
It's amazing, the kind of stuff that's possible these days.
It's just that I don't have the time/willpower to sort every switch and grf out
Can't you zip up your config/grf dir and send it to me, Louie?
It's amazing, the kind of stuff that's possible these days.
It's just that I don't have the time/willpower to sort every switch and grf out
Can't you zip up your config/grf dir and send it to me, Louie?
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Cheers guys, i didnt think they were anything special, i was just trying to get back into pic making,
GoneWacko i can do if you want me to, I will get them zipped up now and next time i see you on MSN i will send them over, if you want of course
GoneWacko i can do if you want me to, I will get them zipped up now and next time i see you on MSN i will send them over, if you want of course
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It's definitely worth the effort!GoneWacko wrote:Yea some cool shots.
It's amazing, the kind of stuff that's possible these days.
It's just that I don't have the time/willpower to sort every switch and grf out
Can't you zip up your config/grf dir and send it to me, Louie?
All my TT stuff is on my old PC, when I finally get round to putting it back together I might have some more screenies.
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Irregular Stations has really re-invented some of the ways we play TTD. With build on slopes, PBS, bus stops, irregular stations, and new stations, we can be so much more realistic!
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Northern Bohemian Coal Company PR slides
Northern Bohemian Coal Company (NBCC) entered the market at 1921 under director Prebral and soon proved to be not only leading mining company at Czechoslovakia, but also an established transport company daring to take care of any kind of cargo even in dynamic modern conditions of today's Czech republic and even entire EU. Because founder of the company Prebral retired this year and decided to be hibernated at board of a zeppelin mysteriously frozen in air over city Hrob with five bags of mail sent via abyss of time to future generations, the PR department decided to publish a full-color book with unique hi-res satellite photographs depicting some important and famous places bound with NBCC history as a nice gift to retiring tycoon.
I. Komořany Power Plant Complex
This is, where it all began. While other competitors used to transport all cargo by road vehicles, NBCC soon understood importance of trains and built it's transport empire by constructing large network. At first, it only server local brown coal mines, but later it expanded. Here at Komořany, past meets future. Old unelectrified station at west is still serveed by some steamers kept here with all necessary care and popular among people interested in railway history. Local 464.0 steam engines are only operational non-museal locos of this kind in Europe and due to precise care still in best condition! However, many of old steamers were replaced by powerful diesel T679.1 "Sergej" of Soviet origin at 1960s and later.
The eastern station is fully electrified and serves not only local traffic, but also coal haulers from mines by Teplice. There is always some rush and it is almost ipossible to see this station without few E499.0 or E499.1 "Bobina" universal engines. Usually used in pairs, these old but reliable machines are able to pull even very long coal trains.
Road traffic is not very intense, there are some support Volvo FH16610 lorries as backup for coal production peaks.
Because NBCC cares of ecology and there were some minor complaints about Komořany power plant, we have introduced quite green zeppelins to serve local population transport needs instead of low capacity helicopters consuming lots of fuel.
II. Chemopetrol and Most
This is one of places from where all coal comes. Tuned by years of experiments and careful planning, coal service by Most and Mariánské Radčice is very reliable and jams almost never happen. Notice the Chemopetrol - it is an important refinery requiring steady supply of many kinds of cargo and producing lots of goods, but it shares tracks with local coal lines - and still, everytjing is smooth, even with passenger service included! The landscape may look quite industrial, but remember - NBCC supports underground mines and new mining method instead of strip mines! Thanks to our regional-friendly policy, no strip mines were opened at 1950s. You surely cannot imagine it, but the entire city of Most or village Libkovice may have been lost unless there was some NBCC! And it remains to be said, that we not only saved these people's homes - we also granted them fast and reliable transport services supporting local economy growth! If you examine this photo, you may surely find some 840 "Stadler" DMUs and EM488.1 "Pantograf" EMUs aside many freight engines. So far for local transport, but there are also two important cross-country corridors on this slide. You may find them at the north, there are two branches of Great Steel Line from Hrob and Chomutov to Chemopetrol factories and the other line climbs up to Ore Mountains. We will see where it leads later.
III. Eastern Transloading Station
Eastern Transloading Station is surely the most busy station of NBCC. Some years before, you may have heard it being called "Death Junction" by rails workers, but we may assure you, that it is completelly safe today thanks to NBCC's strict Rules of Safety and also massive reconstruction. Coal from local mines and stations is loaded on heavy freight long-range express trains and transported to Komořany. With connections to Great Steel Line at neighboring town of Hrob, this is one of most important rail network sections of NBCC. To separate passenger, mail and valuables from heavy freight traffic, a new line was build, part of which you may have already glimpsed at previous slide. Yes, we are talking of International Ore Mountains Express Corridor which begins at Teplice, then climbs up Ore Mountains and proceeds to German border. A famous piece of engineering, indeed!
IV. Ore mountains
The mountains are steep on Czech side, but after climbing up slopes, you will arrive to upland plateaus slowly desceding to Germany. This photo shows transborder regional traffic between Czech former medieval mining town Hora Svaté Kateřiny and German town Kurort Seifen - you may see both EM 476.1 "Lochneska" from 1960s and modern 680 "Pendolino" unit here. More tracks head even farther to Sayda, where they meet the International Ore Mountains Express Corridor which may be seen crossing this region at east. Hora Svaté Kateřiny is also a transloading station accepting wood and iron ore. Upland local freight lines are mostly diesel ones (T679.1 "Sergej" and T699 "Cmelak" engines being in charge) while the track to lowlands is electrified and used by a dozen of powerful 184 "Donato" units introduced at 1990s. In the past, transporting anything up to mountains and down to basin was difficult and there was only infrequent passenger and mail air service. With new train tracks being built, there was no need to expand local airport.
V. Porta Bohemica
Now we move to quite a different place. On the east, belt Tertiary Era volcanic mountains rises from the Most Brown Coal Basin. It is called České Středohoří (Central Bohemian Mountains - which is not really accurate because these mountains are actually at north) and river Labe (Elbe) breaches it via deep canyon called Porta Bohemica. It is a picturesque and interesting region dominated by city Ústí nad Labem, but because there was not much coal, it took some time for NBCC to expand there. First thing we did was building some tracks at expected important places and establishing both local passenger and sightseeing tour howercraft lines. Ústí proved to be important market, so we decided to ship lots of goods there. It required some innovative approach however beacuse local terrain is not suitable for constructing large train stations. Our solution may be seen above.
First, there is some livestock and grain eager to be processed in Neštěmice factory. Part of this comes from farm at Chvojno at north. The farm is very productive thanks to improved farming methods but terrain by factory allows only two tracks if we do not want to destroy local monumental hills (and we do not!), so there is an one-way track cycle with few S489 "Laminatka" electric engines, which were introduced at 1967, proved to have quite great tractive effort and still are serving well. Other part of livestock and grain comes from farms at southern lowlands by river Ohře. Some is processed at lowlands, but we have also established prospering air cargo lines to Ústí nad Labem with large-capacity Antonov 225 Mriya Russian planes. Both agricultural products and limestone (which looks like oil for some reasons) are thansported there in this way. But while limestone is transfered by local factory track with low-power T466.2 "Kocour" and few cars are enough to distribute final product to the city, livestock and grain has to travle via ships to Neštěmice. Goods from Neštěmice then return back to Ústí.
VI. Litoměřice
Town of Litoměřice lies on the other end of Porta Bohemica and even there is busy riverborne traffic. Although there was potential for industrial development, it never really came to this region and it is now more popular as a summer resort with reliable hovercraft and Brown liner routes to Ústí. There is a limestone mine "Richard" and few more quarries on west, but they are not really productive and T466.2 "Kocour" is enough. With most passenger traffic taking place on the river, local diesel trains only serve small villages neigboring cities Litoměřice and Lovosice. There are some M152.0 "Orchestrion" and M298.0 "Ganz" DMUs. Some goods are transported by a train with T466.0 "Pielstick" which currently waits at Lovosice to be fully loaded and there are some popular Neoplan Jumbocruisers and Scania trucks used on regional bus and mail lines.
VII. Louny
The sevent and last image is taken at southern farmland by town Louny. NBCC entered this region at beginning of 1980s and finished most of network construction at 1990s. Except for farms, there is also some minor industry and Louny factory serves together with one at Žatec (far to the west) as main local processing plant. NBCC never really understood decision of magistrate at Louny to expand city to the other direction - away from our stations. We know that there were some misunderstandings between NBCC and local representatives including a so-called "corruption affair" (actually a fully legal gift overestimated by jounalists) and that local politicians now prefer the our competitors, but NBCC knows it will prevail because we have a vision and we are also resourceful. We already own 75 percent of our competitor (It is not money which prevents us from overtaking them completelly - they are highly inefficient and their network requires large reconstruction. Until they make it effective, there is no reason to purchase that company.) and in case the area close to trains station will not be used, we shall simply build an airport there.
Two long EMUs at west are both EM488.1 "Pantograf" ones. The green one was purchased at 1990s while the blue one has modern livery because it was completelly reconstructed recently. Next to them is a goods train with red 169 "Asynchron" from 1980s. "Asynchrons" were originally prototypes, but NBCC found them useful because of combination of engine strength, speed and economic running cost and so we ordered more of them and they are quite common today.
Whatever you need, wherever you go, NBCC is always here ready to fulfill your wishes.
NBCC - More Than Coal!
I. Komořany Power Plant Complex
This is, where it all began. While other competitors used to transport all cargo by road vehicles, NBCC soon understood importance of trains and built it's transport empire by constructing large network. At first, it only server local brown coal mines, but later it expanded. Here at Komořany, past meets future. Old unelectrified station at west is still serveed by some steamers kept here with all necessary care and popular among people interested in railway history. Local 464.0 steam engines are only operational non-museal locos of this kind in Europe and due to precise care still in best condition! However, many of old steamers were replaced by powerful diesel T679.1 "Sergej" of Soviet origin at 1960s and later.
The eastern station is fully electrified and serves not only local traffic, but also coal haulers from mines by Teplice. There is always some rush and it is almost ipossible to see this station without few E499.0 or E499.1 "Bobina" universal engines. Usually used in pairs, these old but reliable machines are able to pull even very long coal trains.
Road traffic is not very intense, there are some support Volvo FH16610 lorries as backup for coal production peaks.
Because NBCC cares of ecology and there were some minor complaints about Komořany power plant, we have introduced quite green zeppelins to serve local population transport needs instead of low capacity helicopters consuming lots of fuel.
II. Chemopetrol and Most
This is one of places from where all coal comes. Tuned by years of experiments and careful planning, coal service by Most and Mariánské Radčice is very reliable and jams almost never happen. Notice the Chemopetrol - it is an important refinery requiring steady supply of many kinds of cargo and producing lots of goods, but it shares tracks with local coal lines - and still, everytjing is smooth, even with passenger service included! The landscape may look quite industrial, but remember - NBCC supports underground mines and new mining method instead of strip mines! Thanks to our regional-friendly policy, no strip mines were opened at 1950s. You surely cannot imagine it, but the entire city of Most or village Libkovice may have been lost unless there was some NBCC! And it remains to be said, that we not only saved these people's homes - we also granted them fast and reliable transport services supporting local economy growth! If you examine this photo, you may surely find some 840 "Stadler" DMUs and EM488.1 "Pantograf" EMUs aside many freight engines. So far for local transport, but there are also two important cross-country corridors on this slide. You may find them at the north, there are two branches of Great Steel Line from Hrob and Chomutov to Chemopetrol factories and the other line climbs up to Ore Mountains. We will see where it leads later.
III. Eastern Transloading Station
Eastern Transloading Station is surely the most busy station of NBCC. Some years before, you may have heard it being called "Death Junction" by rails workers, but we may assure you, that it is completelly safe today thanks to NBCC's strict Rules of Safety and also massive reconstruction. Coal from local mines and stations is loaded on heavy freight long-range express trains and transported to Komořany. With connections to Great Steel Line at neighboring town of Hrob, this is one of most important rail network sections of NBCC. To separate passenger, mail and valuables from heavy freight traffic, a new line was build, part of which you may have already glimpsed at previous slide. Yes, we are talking of International Ore Mountains Express Corridor which begins at Teplice, then climbs up Ore Mountains and proceeds to German border. A famous piece of engineering, indeed!
IV. Ore mountains
The mountains are steep on Czech side, but after climbing up slopes, you will arrive to upland plateaus slowly desceding to Germany. This photo shows transborder regional traffic between Czech former medieval mining town Hora Svaté Kateřiny and German town Kurort Seifen - you may see both EM 476.1 "Lochneska" from 1960s and modern 680 "Pendolino" unit here. More tracks head even farther to Sayda, where they meet the International Ore Mountains Express Corridor which may be seen crossing this region at east. Hora Svaté Kateřiny is also a transloading station accepting wood and iron ore. Upland local freight lines are mostly diesel ones (T679.1 "Sergej" and T699 "Cmelak" engines being in charge) while the track to lowlands is electrified and used by a dozen of powerful 184 "Donato" units introduced at 1990s. In the past, transporting anything up to mountains and down to basin was difficult and there was only infrequent passenger and mail air service. With new train tracks being built, there was no need to expand local airport.
V. Porta Bohemica
Now we move to quite a different place. On the east, belt Tertiary Era volcanic mountains rises from the Most Brown Coal Basin. It is called České Středohoří (Central Bohemian Mountains - which is not really accurate because these mountains are actually at north) and river Labe (Elbe) breaches it via deep canyon called Porta Bohemica. It is a picturesque and interesting region dominated by city Ústí nad Labem, but because there was not much coal, it took some time for NBCC to expand there. First thing we did was building some tracks at expected important places and establishing both local passenger and sightseeing tour howercraft lines. Ústí proved to be important market, so we decided to ship lots of goods there. It required some innovative approach however beacuse local terrain is not suitable for constructing large train stations. Our solution may be seen above.
First, there is some livestock and grain eager to be processed in Neštěmice factory. Part of this comes from farm at Chvojno at north. The farm is very productive thanks to improved farming methods but terrain by factory allows only two tracks if we do not want to destroy local monumental hills (and we do not!), so there is an one-way track cycle with few S489 "Laminatka" electric engines, which were introduced at 1967, proved to have quite great tractive effort and still are serving well. Other part of livestock and grain comes from farms at southern lowlands by river Ohře. Some is processed at lowlands, but we have also established prospering air cargo lines to Ústí nad Labem with large-capacity Antonov 225 Mriya Russian planes. Both agricultural products and limestone (which looks like oil for some reasons) are thansported there in this way. But while limestone is transfered by local factory track with low-power T466.2 "Kocour" and few cars are enough to distribute final product to the city, livestock and grain has to travle via ships to Neštěmice. Goods from Neštěmice then return back to Ústí.
VI. Litoměřice
Town of Litoměřice lies on the other end of Porta Bohemica and even there is busy riverborne traffic. Although there was potential for industrial development, it never really came to this region and it is now more popular as a summer resort with reliable hovercraft and Brown liner routes to Ústí. There is a limestone mine "Richard" and few more quarries on west, but they are not really productive and T466.2 "Kocour" is enough. With most passenger traffic taking place on the river, local diesel trains only serve small villages neigboring cities Litoměřice and Lovosice. There are some M152.0 "Orchestrion" and M298.0 "Ganz" DMUs. Some goods are transported by a train with T466.0 "Pielstick" which currently waits at Lovosice to be fully loaded and there are some popular Neoplan Jumbocruisers and Scania trucks used on regional bus and mail lines.
VII. Louny
The sevent and last image is taken at southern farmland by town Louny. NBCC entered this region at beginning of 1980s and finished most of network construction at 1990s. Except for farms, there is also some minor industry and Louny factory serves together with one at Žatec (far to the west) as main local processing plant. NBCC never really understood decision of magistrate at Louny to expand city to the other direction - away from our stations. We know that there were some misunderstandings between NBCC and local representatives including a so-called "corruption affair" (actually a fully legal gift overestimated by jounalists) and that local politicians now prefer the our competitors, but NBCC knows it will prevail because we have a vision and we are also resourceful. We already own 75 percent of our competitor (It is not money which prevents us from overtaking them completelly - they are highly inefficient and their network requires large reconstruction. Until they make it effective, there is no reason to purchase that company.) and in case the area close to trains station will not be used, we shall simply build an airport there.
Two long EMUs at west are both EM488.1 "Pantograf" ones. The green one was purchased at 1990s while the blue one has modern livery because it was completelly reconstructed recently. Next to them is a goods train with red 169 "Asynchron" from 1980s. "Asynchrons" were originally prototypes, but NBCC found them useful because of combination of engine strength, speed and economic running cost and so we ordered more of them and they are quite common today.
Whatever you need, wherever you go, NBCC is always here ready to fulfill your wishes.
NBCC - More Than Coal!
That middle rail isn't part of the station, is it? How did you make those two seperate parts being part of one and the same station?Louie Armstrong wrote:
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Some screenshots I found on my harddisk, taken about two months ago... I still haven't been able to start a new game since then.
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Second and last batch...
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Because all my latest shots are staged, so i use cheat year so as soon as the year changes i get all the msgsPikkaBird wrote:How come, in that last one with the DMU and 37, it says "Wills 2-8-0" in the news bar?
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Hi Uwe,
Those are exceptionally nice screenshots, showing interesting track layout and proper use of rolling stock.
I especially like the Halle screenshot (3.png). However, I wonder how the inhabitants arrange with that particular traffic situation.
Looking forward to see more of that category.
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Michael
Those are exceptionally nice screenshots, showing interesting track layout and proper use of rolling stock.
I especially like the Halle screenshot (3.png). However, I wonder how the inhabitants arrange with that particular traffic situation.
Looking forward to see more of that category.
regards
Michael
Nice shotsUwe wrote:Some screenshots I found on my harddisk, taken about two months ago... I still haven't been able to start a new game since then.
Especially this one!
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Well, they have to... When I started the game, it was only a small village with less than 100 inhabitants, and then it grew around the railway tracks... In real life, traffic in Halle is similarly dense (but it's way flatter).michael blunck wrote:I especially like the Halle screenshot (3.png). However, I wonder how the inhabitants arrange with that particular traffic situation.
That depends on whether I find the time for playing, real life is interfering a lot. Additionally, new features are popping up all over the place (new industries and cargos, irregular stations), it's hard to just play the game instead of trying out all those new features.michael blunck wrote:Looking forward to see more of that category.
Greets,
Uwe
Id also just like to add my opinion of how amazingly realsitic screenie 3, Halle, is. I see that as a real work of art. Congrats.
Looking forward to more if you can!
James
Looking forward to more if you can!
James
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Nice pic, ive been up and down that spiral...
Its really cool
James
Its really cool
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