Australian Railway Stations

[GarryG]

This will be added to next issue.

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Extension for the Goods Shed .. has 1/2 of a shed and office with wide wooden platform.

[GarryG]

Made a few changes to AuzFreightStations.

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Added:
Office, Water Tank and a Goods Shed extension.
Shortened the Goods Wooden Platform with Steps and on/off ramps so can use better with other pieces .. can get a idea in the pic above.
There are 4 versions to the Jib Crane
Made some ground level platforms.
Also made a non-track tile wooden platform.

If like to try this test version here is a copy.

[GarryG]

Anyone else having trouble logging into the tt-forms.net website.

This morning I been getting this message when trying to visit this website.

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There is a problem with this website’s security certificate.

The security certificate presented by this website has expired or is not yet valid.

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The problem might be in my computer, but thought I ask here in case others having same problem.

Cheers

[paulicus25]

You're not the only one.

Looks like google has rolled out stage 2 of their new security changes. Here is a link explaining it I just found.

http://www.zdnet.com/article/google-tig ... ch-fields/

Looks like any site anywhere with any sort of search box, password entry or credit card info is at risk of being blacklisted by google as 'insecure'. The only way I could get in is to forgo google chrome completely and use ancient internet exploder.

The only way around it seems to be for the site to get a valid ssl/tls certificate and to incorporate https securely and up to date. Seems like the tt forums doesn't have this maybe? and it has search boxes so it may well of been flagged.

Looks like google's yet one more step to trying to obtain total control of the internet. Complete and utter silliness. Something will have to be done though as if its like this, so many websites will be inaccessible. I wonder where things go from here.

Someone may want to ping this page to whoevers in charge of the site nowadays.

[GarryG]

You're not the only one.

Thanks for your feedback .. at least I now know it not a issue with my computer and I also found a few other sites having this issue too.

Simuscape operates same as here, but it still accessible.

Cheers pal.

[Auge]

Hello

tt-forums.net has a valid certificate from Let's Encrypt which is valid until 2018-02-08. No problem in Firefox 57 here.

Tschö, Auge

PS: After sending this posting I saw the other thread. To late, sorry.

[GarryG]

Hi all, not much is getting done in any of my projects at the moment due to other issues I having.

Not sure when I be able to continue any of my projects.

I've attached a copy of all my sources for all the station sets in one bundle.

In this one file are all the sprites, NFO's and GRF's to every set I been working on for the stations.

You are welcome to use these in any way you wish and make your own sets if want using any of what I have here.

If you want to learn how to code your own stations using NFO coding that Quast65 has taught me over the past several month, the Tutorial is now available in the Simuscape Forum at
http://www.simuscape.net/simutalk/viewforum.php?f=85

Cheers all

[kamnet]

I'm amazed this was only 11 MB!

Be well, sir! Enjoy the holidays!

[GarryG]

Be well, sir! Enjoy the holidays!

Thanks pal. It a bit warm here today to enjoy too much as it is 41 here at moment and suppose to reach the mid 40s later.

Over the past 3 days been trying to make Newcastle Railway Station here in Australia.
These images show the old design from 1880s with a front wall with the newer design in use today. (Just a shame the station isn't used for trains anymore)

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I find drawing a building, especially a large one do it in sections and join the pieces later like lego blocks.
Zipped up here is a CPT for Corel Photo Paint X5 and a PSD for Adobe Photoshop.

Some are lose pieces that can be moved around.

This photo courtesy of Cultural Collections (Archives) that can be found on Flickr.
This is what I have based my design from.

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I'm a bit slow doing this work these days so got no idea how long it will take to finish Newcastle.

Cheers all

[GarryG]

MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERY ONE.

Manage to get a photo of Santa Clause tonight flying across our skies.

In Australia he doesn't use reindeers because of the heat. He uses White Kangaroos called Boomers.

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(This image is from AuzObjects_Towns .. I added it today along with some extra's for the Playgrounds, and in the process of adding a few more objects to that set).

Cheers all.

[piratescooby]

MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERY ONE.

Manage to get a photo of Santa Clause tonight flying across our skies.

In Australia he doesn't use reindeers because of the heat. He uses White Kangaroos called Boomers.
Santas in Australia now.png


(This image is from AuzObjects_Towns .. I added it today along with some extra's for the Playgrounds, and in the process of adding a few more objects to that set).

Cheers all.

Happy Crimbo , as always you come up with the goods , enjoy the hols ,take some time off ,look forward to seeing your creations in 2018 .

[GarryG]

Happy Crimbo , as always you come up with the goods , enjoy the hols ,take some time off ,look forward to seeing your creations in 2018 .

We shall see what happens

Newcastle station progressing slowly. Here's what I done to so far.

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Hope to design it to pre 1920s.
The small building far left used to be the porters rooms, these will be replaced with a single storey building which was a restaurant. (Later mid-1920s was changed to a 3 storey). Left of that building is where footbridge is to go and another 2 storey building that became staff rooms..
Going to leave the bigger building with the veranda as is. The veranda was filled in in the late 1920s, but I don't think I will do that.
To the right of the larger buildings, the very small one became the porters room, next is Gents Toilets, and left of this this building was the Station Masters and Parcels Office.

Hope some time in the New Year to visit Archives in Sydney and see if they have photos or diagrams to get a few details I don't have available. See what I can find of Newcastle, Sydney and a few other stations.

Cheers fellas .. enjoy your day.

[GarryG]

What's your imagination like?

A project I like to try do in 2018.

Looking at the idea of fake sidings like this pic.

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The line that has parts sticking out both ends represents your main line .. the train wait on this line and pretend it is shunting into the siding with wagons to load or unload.

I should be able to design it so can make it what ever length we want.

Hope to include goods sheds, jib crane, gantry crane (like in this pic), loading bay, wool dumps and stock sidings.

Cheers all

[GarryG]

Altered some of the platform and non-track tiles for the livestock yards.

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Why? Have a look over at my Industry Form and see why
viewtopic.php?f=26&t=74471&p=1200492#p1200492

[GarryG]

Been working on the CoalLoaders so that they can be used with the New Coal Mines I added to AuzInd2 which is available for testing over at:
viewtopic.php?f=26&t=74471
These pics show the coalloaders with the Coal Mines.

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If like to try here is the grf file,

[GarryG]

I hope to release latest version of AuzFreightStations_003 tonight or tomorrow morning.

I think it ready, but I doing some last minute checks with it this afternoon to make sure works with the AuzInd2.

Here's a copy of both if you want it sooner (without my last minute test).

Cheers

EDIT: Whooppps I at firsted placed wrong copy of AuzInd2 here.

[GarryG]

Having problem loading the new AuzFreightStations and AusInd2 into Bananas.

Keep getting this message even if I repack the files.

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•Couldn't detect anything useful in this pack

Will try again later.

Cheers

[GarryG]

Success .. it now been uploaded to Bananas.

Had a problem with latest update in WinRAR.

When I removed it and put older version back on all now is fine.

Possible version above might be corrupt on some computers so here a new version that same as on Bananas now.

AuzFreightStations.rar

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And here is the Source (in the GRF folder are also sprites form the other station sets I did and working on)

AuzFreightStationsSource.rar

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Cheers

[GarryG]

I'm jumping around between projects at the moment.

For some time been looking at making a Rail Track set .. just that not had the time to work on it much.

Using the idea from NuTRacks .. hope to make several sets representing different areas.

These 2 ideas with wide ballast:
The top on is 60 km/ph. designed for branch lines and crossing loops.
Bottom rustier look one has a 40 km/ph. speed and it is for sidings.
Both have my first idea of wide ballast.

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Then I came across an idea to replace fences with maintenance tracks. (Could make it thicker like the dirt roads in my AuzObjects_FakeRoad set and call them fire trails).
Have not changed the track for this one yet as still deciding how to go about it.

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Still some work to do to them .. but thought I put them here for you to look at and give me an opinion.

Also thinking of the wide ballast with the dirt track on it.
The 1st 3 sets of tracks I been playing around with .. the rest are original NuTRacks tracks.
If like to try here the newgrf file.

[ISA]

Hey Garry. What a nice stations You have there...

One thing what caught my eye on the ore station. Look into the red circles. Normal zoom level the are straight line on the roof and that bothers me a bit
Other words the roof edge wont fit with the next one.