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krtaylor wrote:Do you have a real iron ore mine that you're modeling?

Great pics here:
http://images.google.ca/images?hl=en&lr ... tnG=Search

Born Acorn wrote:here are previews for my next project - a switchyard.

I will be following up with tiles with certain train wagons on the sidings.

thats a great idea
a bit like MB has?

MB has already done this?

ahh crap.

born, i guess they're referring to this one:

ahh oh well. Ill have to see if people want a pure switchyard.

Here are those GWR station sprites.

cornelius wrote:Concrete platform canopies. These are to go with a station I'm doing for the US set but if it's not too much duplication they might find a home here too?

Yeap, I can code those as seperate platforms in the generic platforms class, they can be built seperatly, or placed beside that mission style station your drawing to extend it beyond what its normal size limit is.

Here are completed switchyard sprites.

The train wagons are from DanMacK, so credit goes to him too.

Born Acorn very nice ... someone could made a screenie with some switchyard sprites ?

wow, looks very good Born Acorn.
yes i was refering to the pics of MB's sideings above, but i surpose switch yards are slightly different. very good idea. keep it up

we could have one for every type of industry like we do now,
or old wagons rotting in a yard. that seems very popular on British Rail!

Hi guys...
I very much like this idea. It's a great Eyecandy.

May I suggest that you do some sprites with the same wagon-collours, so that it looks like a whole train would be put together there.
(ie five blue grain hoppers in a row)
Or are the colours etc randomly selected?

The Irish wrote:May I suggest that you do some sprites with the same wagon-collours, so that it looks like a whole train would be put together there.
(ie five blue grain hoppers in a row)
Or are the colours etc randomly selected?

i would say some Industrial trains have mostly all the same wagons, although some others actually have random coloured/types of wagons. like grain hoppers for and example.

Very nice work Born Acorn, That GWR station looks pretty sweet and the switch yards look brilliant,

heres more combinations and things, Rail vehicles AND new switch levers by DanMacK

Nice!

Looks like it would only be suitable for the US stations set, because it uses clearly American equipment. We can code it and send it over to Oracle to include there, though.

We should probably put the iron-ore mine in the Industrial stations set also.

BTW, who's in charge of / drew the Silverline station set?

Looks very nice

krtaylor wrote:Nice!

Looks like it would only be suitable for the US stations set, because it uses clearly American equipment. We can code it and send it over to Oracle to include there, though.

We should probably put the iron-ore mine in the Industrial stations set also.

BTW, who's in charge of / drew the Silverline station set?

thats fine by me.

as i said in irc, the rails need sleepers, otherwise they look like steel tubes..

err, yes that is true, although don't throw away what you have -

In switchyards of the era of the locomotives you have on them, certainly the sidings would have sleepers/crossties. And you should draw that.

However, in the modern era of a container yard, you would often find the whole yard being a concrete slab with the rails bolted into it, just like you've drawn. So you you changed the side-cars to being container cars, and made a traveling overhead crane to move the containers (or at least added some forklift trucks), then you'd have something suitable for modern use.

how about oil stains/darkened ballast between rails?

Sounds good, and looks good

Anyway, i eventually got round to posting this sreenshot error i was surpose to a while back.