Proviso Yard Trackword Completed! Lots of pictures!

Yes! I have finished it! If you wondered why I wasn't around anymore, here's why! Here are some pictures!A big overhead of the yard!I have a picture of the Hump from TS, I hit printscreen, but now I don't know how to get it!
The end of the Hump yard and start of the second yard!An AE shot of the very middle. Locomotive Shops on top, throat in middle, holding yards at bottom.The west end, where everything comes under the IHB. The derailed doublestack is for measuring the bridge height!
A closer overhead AE screenshot.Of course, there's the North Yard!A little diamond at one of the North Yard sidings I found interesting... I think the contact points are actually inside the switch!My only major problem. 3 of the dynamic pieces do not work and crash the computer when selected. They are on two tiles from the hump to the North Yard, and I need help! The ones not connected to anything were the ones that worked.I have lots of others of the hump and turntable and all, because I hit Print Screen in MSTS and now I can't find them
Some Stats:Time: 3 1/2 months at 1 hour per day.Track Sections: 2200! Not a single one missed! (except for space limitations!)1 track per 3 minutes.Tiles: 4, although 90% of it is on 2.Frame-rates:Great when Empty, and I haven't had time to fill it up!Length: Probably longer then many routes!
I will post more pictures when I have time.If there is any particular spot you want to see, just ask!Thanks!
METRAUP

Chicago-Geneva Metra Line

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Hey Dave, looks great man! Could you post a pic of each spot where there is a Metra station? BTW, the round house is long gone from Proviso.

John Means
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LAST EDITED ON Nov-11-04 AT 10:39 PM (EST)

That's HUGEGreetings fellow "Hump-er"!
http://www.train-sim.com/dcforum/DCForumID6/12679.htmlLooking good...:Matt:UP La Grande Sub (Phase I)
Tracks: 80%
Scenery: 0%

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David
HOKEE SHMOKLES!! you've been a busy boy.looks great.John
It's been gone for a good number of years but David I'd say leave it for those of us that'll prefer to run our bilevels in yellow and green with F's E's and Crandall E's as the power.Gary S

43 year old future curmudgen(Hey you kids get offa my lawn!!)

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Looking good! At one time I believe it was the largest yard in the world, altho I could be wrong
Mike

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Holy Cow! What's your object count in that tile???JBD

Jim Duncan
Midwest Rail Group

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>Holy Cow! What's your object count in that tile???
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>JBD
LOLExactly ... there will be no scenery !!LaterTim Kent – 96th_Malice - Winnipeg CanadaProud member of the - NO TRAIL CN SD60 - club !!

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>Looking good! At one time I believe it was the largest yard
>in the world, altho I could be wrong
> Mike
I think North Platte (Nebraska) holds (or held) that honor.

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LAST EDITED ON Nov-12-04 AT 07:16 PM (EST)

Thank you, one and all!In answer to some of your questions,Yes Proviso was the biggest yard in the world when it was built. It is no longer.The main tile has about 1200 track pieces.The roundhouse is long gone, but the Turntable isn't!I will be starting scenery for the rest of the route soon, because right now there are no stations.Now I jsut have California Yard! I also used so many markers that USAPhotomaps ran out of room! I would like to put in a few containers, but just a few.Thanks!
METRAUP

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>The main tile has about 1200 track pieces. LOL!!Good luck adding scenery and not crashing the RE at the same time!Austin

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Dynamic TrackI suspect that somehow you may have reached the limit for the number of dynamic pieces on a tile, or those new dynamic pieces may be starting too close to the edge of a tile, or perhaps bridgeing the corner of a tile to end on another tile. Any of those things will blow you out of the water and we don't know how to correct it without adjusting the track locations.I ran into this in four locations on the RMD-4 and was lucky enough in 3 instances to fix it without drastically changing the track location. However, the 4th spot, which is just off the reverse curve west of Pottsville loop, required shortening this right-hand curve and running the tanget slightly northwest of it's actual location. It is noticeable if one is picky enough to compare this location with aerials.J. H. Sullivan

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Wow. Thats a bit. If ya need some help, lemme know.

John Means
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>If there is any particular spot you want to see, just ask!I hereby nominate you to survey my Cumberland, MD facilities! Cheers!
Marc - 3DTrains
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WOW !This looks like "Switchers Paradise" ! Lost some DYN tracks ? Look for them underground !One of the problems in the making I can see is trying to fill all these yards with loose Consists ? On the subject of "HUMPS", I put an idea to Roman about creating short straights which bend gently upward and downward to start track gradients with instead of having to use multiple smaller track sections. Appears that he is already working on some for use on his yards Humps ! But using them, a loco front-coupler pushing a train over them and uncoupling some of the leading waggons will stop them dead in their tracks, their brakes coming on ?Also the pushing loco will be able to throw only the next switch ahead of the Hump !Take Care, O t t o.

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> Track Sections: 2200! Not a single one missed! (except for space limitations!)Did you use 2, 3, and 4 track tangent track?Which turnout shape did you use?Dave NelsonWP mainline, Oakland-Stockton: 100% complete;
SP mainline, Oakland-Stockton: 20% complete;
Aug 1950
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>> Track Sections: 2200! Not a single one missed! (except for space limitations!)
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>Did you use 2, 3, and 4 track tangent track?
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>Which turnout shape did you use?
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>Dave Nelson
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>WP mainline, Oakland-Stockton: 100% complete;
>SP mainline, Oakland-Stockton: 20% complete;
>Aug 1950
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I used mainly 6 point turnouts.For the Hump I needed to use twelve points or more.And I feel silly asking, but what do you mean by 2, 3, and four tangent track?
Thanks!
METRAUP

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Stuff like a4t100mstrt.s; use of multi-track sections can do a lot to cut down on the number of shape files to load. Ditto for using the whole turnout pirces Okrasa built for 3d and 6d instead of the numerous individual pieces. It take work to squeeze out the unneccesary track sections but there are times when it can make enough of a difference that you'll want to do it.
Dave NelsonWP mainline, Oakland-Stockton: 100% complete;
SP mainline, Oakland-Stockton: 20% complete;
Aug 1950
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>Stuff like a4t100mstrt.s; use of multi-track sections can do
>a lot to cut down on the number of shape files to load.
>Ditto for using the whole turnout pirces Okrasa built for 3d
>and 6d instead of the numerous individual pieces. It take
>work to squeeze out the unneccesary track sections but there
>are times when it can make enough of a difference that
>you'll want to do it.
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Yep! I did all that! I love using those alt500mstrs!Worse come to worse, I could always rip out some of the older pieces and replace them with newer Xtracks pieces. I could also use more dynamic track for odd length straights, and those things might cut out about 70 pieces.Thanks!
METRAUP

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LAST EDITED ON Nov-15-04 AT 05:20 PM (EST)

Sweet Jebus! That's frikkin huge, man! I think me and my little 0-6-0 will get lost in that mess. *gulp*And good luck filling that yard with rollingstock, MSTS will have a stroke for sure./JonatanSteam rules!

Train gifs from Dans Railroad Gif RoundhouseNever trust computers. If you do, they will betray you.I'm the steam freak, ph34r me!!

My E-mail jonatan.gronoset@telia.com

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