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andy_disco (36 posts)
Aug-25-01, 07:55 AM (EST) "25kV - UK style" Fed up with dumpy-looking default catenaries in MSTS? May I suggest an alternative?
Unnamed 47 under the wires at Tonport Vale, heading south to the town of Ridgeport

A closer look at the OLE infrastructure.These objects are courtesy of Anthony Bowden, BVE genius (have you used the Watford Junction - Milton Keynes route recently?). There are more updated Ridgeport Valley pics at http://mr-disco.com/ts_images/ - please visit if you can. Thanks to Anthony and to all those 3d authors who placed their great offerings at trainsimfiles.com Andy
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Subject Author Message Date ID RE: 25kV - UK style nwallace Aug-25-01 1 RE: 25kV - UK style trainsearcher Aug-26-01 2 RE: 25kV - UK style jerseycentral Aug-26-01 3 RE: 25kV - UK style Blocker Aug-26-01 4 RE: 25kV - UK style andy_disco Aug-27-01 5 RE: 25kV - UK style Matt Vince Aug-29-01 6 RE: 25kV - UK style Joshua_Hill Sep-02-01 7 RE: 25kV - UK style olivier101 Oct-18-01 8 RE: 25kV - UK style LocoRo Oct-18-01 9 RE: 25kV - UK style olivier101 Oct-18-01 10 RE: 25kV - UK style andy_disco Oct-18-01 11 RE: 25kV - UK style LocoRo Oct-18-01 12 RE: 25kV - UK style olivier101 Nov-28-01 21 RE: 25kV - UK style chucksc Oct-18-01 13 RE: 25kV - UK style KngtRider Oct-19-01 14 RE: 25kV - UK style dvdhoven Oct-19-01 15 RE: 25kV - UK style kxs156 Nov-26-01 16 RE: 25kV - UK style chucksc Nov-26-01 17 RE: 25kV - UK style black5 Nov-26-01 18 RE: 25kV - UK style chucksc Nov-26-01 19 RE: 25kV - UK style SilverFox Nov-27-01 20

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nwallace (43 posts)
Aug-25-01, 10:49 AM (EST) 1. "RE: 25kV - UK style" DAmn, and I jsut finished putting Northeast Corridor Gantries onto my line and wishing those gantries were avaliable. Remove | Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top
trainsearcher (45 posts)
Aug-26-01, 05:16 PM (EST) 2. "RE: 25kV - UK style" Hi, Can you tell me how you built these in a 3d program?
I'm currently constructing the gantries used on the LGV (TGV lines) in France, but I don't know yet how to construct these powerlines.For example:
How did you connect the catenary wires to the gantries?
How did you contruct the switches in the track?Peter Remove | Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top
jerseycentral (689 posts)
Aug-26-01, 06:05 PM (EST) 3. "RE: 25kV - UK style" think you could redo the NEC ones properly if i found pictures for you? Remove | Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top
Blocker (79 posts)
Aug-26-01, 06:47 PM (EST) 4. "RE: 25kV - UK style" Great Job,were can we get them, btw the route displayed on the
http://mr-disco.com/ts_images website is this also downloadable,
It look`s fantastic!
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andy_disco (36 posts)
Aug-27-01, 08:42 AM (EST) 5. "RE: 25kV - UK style" The OHE objects in my route were not built by me, but by Anthony Bowden of WJ-MKC (BVE route) fame. I can't take any responsibility for a release date without Anthony's say-so...they're the result of his hard work, and I've just been the lucky beta-tester after all Ridgeport Valley was going so well until I had a db corruption last night. I've lost a week's work, including all the electrification, the newly constructed depot chord (and depot!), all sorts of other goodies. It won't be released for a while now due to forthcoming Cisco exams which will take up a chunk of my time. Sorry Remove | Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top
Matt Vince (48 posts)
Aug-29-01, 08:21 AM (EST) 6. "RE: 25kV - UK style" Awesome gantries - Well done Anthony!MattVGNER - Coming soon. Remove | Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top
Joshua_Hill (69 posts)
Sep-02-01, 07:40 PM (EST) 7. "RE: 25kV - UK style" Man... these gantries look so much better... hmmm... a bit worried about the impact on the frame rate... :/Whatever... I can always buy a new computer :pGreat job!!! (the other screen shots look great too!)Josh /=\ Remove | Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top
olivier101 (31 posts)
Oct-18-01, 06:35 AM (EST) 8. "RE: 25kV - UK style" Any update on these gantries?Olivier (looking for 25kv gantries...) Remove | Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top
LocoRo (274 posts)
Oct-18-01, 10:01 AM (EST) 9. "RE: 25kV - UK style" Indeed strange we havent heard any updates !! they look GREAT !! Remove | Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top
olivier101 (31 posts)
Oct-18-01, 06:31 PM (EST) 10. "RE: 25kV - UK style" Granted - they're awesome!!Olivier (drooling over the keyboard) Remove | Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top
andy_disco (36 posts)
Oct-18-01, 06:39 PM (EST) 11. "RE: 25kV - UK style" I still intend on releasing this route, although don't expect any serious work on it after December when my Trainz package arrives from Oz ;) Might be able to give this more time now that my Cisco exams have finished for a month or two.Hopefully I will have an update on the gantry release situation within a much shorter space of time. Don't turn that dial! Remove | Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top
LocoRo (274 posts)
Oct-18-01, 08:05 PM (EST) 12. "RE: 25kV - UK style" Thanks for the reply greetings Roland Remove | Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top
olivier101 (31 posts)
Nov-28-01, 06:41 AM (EST) 21. "RE: 25kV - UK style" >I still intend on releasing this
>route, although don't expect any
>serious work on it after
>DecemberWell... soon December, and nothing yet... Remove | Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top
chucksc (595 posts)
Oct-18-01, 10:09 PM (EST) 13. "RE: 25kV - UK style" Too bad your link doesn't work here.... I'd have liked to see what you were talking about.... Remove | Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top
KngtRider (129 posts)
Oct-19-01, 03:40 AM (EST) 14. "RE: 25kV - UK style" hinicewe have similar stauchions here in aus both 1.5kv dc and 25kv acslightly different from thosehowever people you can download a swewdish msts model pack which has european style staunchions (eveyr similar to the uk ones above) from single track to 6 track widethey are green by default but you can re tex themthey are avalible on the site of the author of the swedish/'da litt' swedish pas cars and locos
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dvdhoven (207 posts)
Oct-19-01, 02:07 PM (EST) 15. "RE: 25kV - UK style" Hi,Here is the Swedish link: http://msts.e-buzz.net/European gantries a lots of other stuff.Dick van den Hoven Remove | Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top
kxs156 (8 posts)
Nov-26-01, 02:24 PM (EST) 16. "RE: 25kV - UK style" There's lots of gantries available now... BUT I have not seen or found the *realistic* catenaries shown in the pictures above. Assume they are hand placed 3D objects? How do you handle curves?Anyone using these files? Are they available? Are there others? Really hate that stock MSTS single wire..... Remove | Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top
chucksc (595 posts)
Nov-26-01, 02:38 PM (EST) 17. "RE: 25kV - UK style" Also usable on the NEC lines east above New Haven as that is the new 25/50kv 60hz constant tension wiring installed here in the states.... My guess is that as they redo wires on the NEC and any new electrification (Ca.'s long awaited HSR initiative) this is them.....
------Chuck Schneider---------

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black5 (28 posts)
Nov-26-01, 03:11 PM (EST) 18. "RE: 25kV - UK style" My problem is the opposite to all of you..I only run steam and the gantries spoil my "realism" (if I need electric I just change the properties in route editor..)
Does anyone know of an elegant way to make them vanish...something to do with transparent textures!!!??? I haven't the first clue about paint type programs.
Thanks for any info.
GHD in LONDON. Remove | Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top
chucksc (595 posts)
Nov-26-01, 03:19 PM (EST) 19. "RE: 25kV - UK style" Start hunting around the Route Editor/Builder forum here and the file library... It seems to me that some one did indeed find a way to bury the wires between the rails at ground level.... so you could run electrics occaisionally and steam/diesel the rest of the time!
------Chuck Schneider---------

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SilverFox (49 posts)
Nov-27-01, 03:23 PM (EST) 20. "RE: 25kV - UK style" Hi, There is a utility called "gantries be gone" which you can find on http://www.trainsimfiles.net/
i have not used it so I have no idea what it actually does , whether it works on 1 route or all routes. It sounds like what you are after so give it a whirl - but remember to backup your files first!
Cheers,
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