TRAINZ

Some of you might of heard of the Trainz program. It’s a simulation program for, you guessed it, trains!It’s quite a flexible program as you can drive trains, create the landscapes in which they exist,and my favourite, create objects to be used in the program. This may be a house, a car, a tree or even a complete train. One person even created a horse and cart you could drive around, and the horse is completely animated! You could set up industries with different goods from food stuff, scrap metal and chemicals.

That meant a whole industry sector could be set up. For example, trees where harvested - wood logs going to a mill where the logs are processed and from there to a factory where furniture or other wooden products could be made - and all transported in trains. But someone produced a truck that could carry such goods and the story goes on.

Of course, I had to make some models too and here are a few examples:

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windMill
B_BFroad
B_Engineshed
B_Largerestroom
B_Restroom3
B_Shelter
B_Smallrestroom
B_Trafficislands
B_Transshipmentstone
B_Transshipmentwood
B_Underpasslane
B_Underpassped
B_Underpassroad
B_Underpasssignal
B_Vicarage
B_Villagechurch
B_Villagepub
B_Waygauges
B_Weighhouse
B_Weighhousesign
B_Windmill
weighhouseSign
coalMchntsShed
Wayguage Pack
villagePub
villageChurch
Vicarage
UnderpassSignalbox
underpass_road
underpass_ped
UnderpassLane
Transshipmentwood
stnTrannshipment
TrafficIslands
SmallRestroom
shelter
Restroom3
lgeRestroom
engineshed
BfRoad

This model featured animation. The vanes of the windmill went around... as they should. I did make an error though, the vanes were open, usually to stop the vanes rotating. Mine were open and it still rotated!

This weigh house sign showed were the weigh house was. You could actually re-name the sign to show in which part of England you were in.

These coal weigh houses were all over Britain. They were places to go and get coal to burn in the family home. This model came with the Weighhouse Sign.

The parts of this waygauge pack are a tool for track laying. They kept paralell tracks equidistant around a curve and helped  layout fiddle-yards etc. They are based on an item found in an animated point kit made by a Trainz member called Andi06.

A must for any small village especially on a cold day. That’s why all the chimneys are smoking!
Produced from the plans from a railway model book.

Not terribly religious, are you? Well, churches were built anyway for all those people who liked to go somewhere on Sunday morning.

The local priest, reverend or minister (depending on the faith) had to live somewhere and he (or she - ‘Vicar of Dibley’) made there home in these buildings.

This was my last in a series of underpasses. It featured a platform to put a signal box there. Since the platform was empty, anything could be used - a public picnic area for instance. But your sandwiches may get smokey from a passing train!

This underpass featured allowed a road to pass under the tracks. A very common thing. The road changed to any road that was attached to it. That was just  a feature of the Trainz programme.

An underpass where the train track went over a pedestrian walkway.Peopla had to have someway of crossing the tracks too you know!

An underpass where the train track went over a laneway. It didn’t have an actual road, but you could put a static vehicle ther for effect.

A wooden transshipment shed. These railway structures had two tracks in them and goods were man-handled between rail cars and wagons.

A stone transshipment shed. These railway structures had two tracks in them and goods were man-handled between rail cars and wagons.

A ‘trick’ created by Andi06 allowed traffic to travel on one lane (one way) only. From this roads with multiple lanes could be created. I went a step back and divided a road into two separate lanes divided by a traffic island. Three different types of island were made: large, small and flower bed.

This model is my first of three public restrooms.
It is based on one in Nambour, Queensland.

This is my first and only model constructed entirely in 3D Studio Max. It lights up at night time (Trainz time in the game) giving the illusion that it has a fluorescent light.

This, the 3rd of three public restrooms is the most popular of my models to date with a total of over 156 000 downloads by the Trainz community.

This is the first version of a basic single loco engine shed I did. Later versions had a floor, a night light and an ajoining side-shed.

This is the second of three public restrooms I created. Different shading on the model gives the impression of natural light and shadow.

This is my own version of a road. There are many that people have done for the Trainz program but I used this one specifically for some of my models. For example the underpass with a road. In the end this doesn’t matter as the default road changes to whichever road is attached to it.

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These aren’t all the models I made for Trainz. I did some that I didn’t release.  A factory, a couple of more sheds and a couple of others. I also had some requests that I hadn’t finished due to other commitments. Maybe I will release them but most of them were works in progress.

We’ll see what happens!

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