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Vince (173 posts)
Jun-01-02, 02:02 AM (EDT) "NECv4 Progress Report 05-31-02" Greetings,
Almost all trackwork is complete. I am presently working in the Washington DC area, installing the Ivy City and Eckington yards.
Below is a view in the activity editor map window of the Washington DC area. This is where the CSX Capitol Division terminates.

After I finish trackwork here I have to move my gang north to Wilmington and lay the track for the Wilmington by-pass and the Edgmoore Yard.Here is another photo of heavy eguipment rolling south over the Thomas Viaduct with a 183 liquid chemical cars.

As soon as all trackwork is complete then road installation starts, after that comes scenery, buildings streetlamps and gantrys. Last will be track objects like mileposts, signals crossing gates ect.
I am making steady, well, somwhat steady progress. Every once in a while for no apparent reason the route editor hic-ups and corrupts a world file. Usually happens when laying track across a tile boundry. Been saving after every track placement. Problem is everything looks normal as I continue on pounding spikes. The only way I find out there is a problem is when I do a track database rebuild. Then I find a blue pole where two sections of track that were joined. Then it takes me a day or so to straighten it out, involving many TDB rebuilds, reboots, deleting and adding track and editing the faulty world file...not fun at all. Regards,
Vince Cockeram
NEC Track Team
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Subject Author Message Date ID RE: NECv4 Progress Report 05-31-02 philmoberg Jun-01-02 1 RE: NECv4 Progress Report 05-31-02 chucksc Jun-01-02 2 RE: NECv4 Progress Report 05-31-02 davereage Jun-01-02 3 RE: NECv4 Progress Report 05-31-02 Vince Jun-01-02 5 RE: NECv4 Progress Report 05-31-02 davereage Jun-02-02 8 RE: NECv4 Progress Report 05-31-02 Denny Jun-01-02 4 RE: NECv4 Progress Report 05-31-02 mdman Jun-01-02 6 RE: NECv4 Progress Report 05-31-02 Vince Jun-01-02 7 RE: NECv4 Progress Report 05-31-02 Motley24Crue2 Jun-02-02 9 RE: NECv4 Progress Report 05-31-02 Vince Jun-03-02 10 RE: NECv4 Progress Report 05-31-02 gxm149 Jun-03-02 11 RE: NECv4 Progress Report 05-31-02 CNfavorite Jun-03-02 12 RE: NECv4 Progress Report 05-31-02 Vince Jun-03-02 13 NECv4 Progress Report 05-31-02 MRRextreme Jun-05-02 14

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philmoberg (58 posts)
Jun-01-02, 09:43 AM (EDT) 1. "RE: NECv4 Progress Report 05-31-02" Clearly this is an enormous amount of work. It will be well worth the wait when you're done. My thanks to you and your group for your persistence... -Phil Remove | Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top
chucksc (1650 posts)
Jun-01-02, 11:12 AM (EDT) 2. "RE: NECv4 Progress Report 05-31-02" Excellent, Beautifull, Words escape me!
Well they don't really (the Irish 1/2 kissed the Blarney Stone)
But bring it on! I can hardly wait.... I considered NEC 2 a great leap forward and the NEC extension excellent (too bad I couldn't use it with out dumping NEC 2 (so I didn't)
You guys are doing excellent work!------Chuck Schneider---------

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davereage (375 posts)
Jun-01-02, 11:31 AM (EDT) 3. "RE: NECv4 Progress Report 05-31-02" Looks great! Will you also be including all MARC and SEPTA stations? I enjoy running commuter trains more than anything else.CheersDave Remove | Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top
Vince (173 posts)
Jun-01-02, 01:40 PM (EDT) 5. "RE: NECv4 Progress Report 05-31-02" Yes Dave, all the MARC commuter stations along the CSX route from Washington to Baltimore will be there. Riverdale, College Park, Berwyn, Greenbelt, Laurel, Savage, Jessup, Hanover, Elkridge, St. Denis, Halethorp, Lansdowne, West Baltimore, Camden Station and Baltimore. Also in is the Baltimore Light Rail Line with stations at Baltimore, Camden, Westport, Cherry Hill, Patapsco Ave., Baltimore Highlands, Nursery Road, North Linthicum, Linthicum, Ferndale and Cromwell/Glen Burnie. Included is the spur from Linthicum to BWI airport station. Regards,
Vince
NEC Track Team
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davereage (375 posts)
Jun-02-02, 06:39 PM (EDT) 8. "RE: NECv4 Progress Report 05-31-02" Awesome! The light rail will be a great addition too! Can't wait!CheersDave Remove | Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top
Denny (322 posts)
Jun-01-02, 01:02 PM (EDT) 4. "RE: NECv4 Progress Report 05-31-02" Good morning to all,
I just had a look at Vinny's update message and the replys so far and I wanted to quickly add my 2 cents to some very favorable and enthusiastic responses.
Since vince started "updating" Bill Knowles version, his work has become an enormous task, doubling the amount of existing trackwork and in essence "creating" a new route with the addition of the CSX freight line from Washington DC to Philadelphia. But as we delved farther into the preliminaries, there was really no other way to go. We had both agreed after buying and viewing several videos of the NEC in that area and the purchase of a track atlas and Vin finding a track plan for the area online, that a complete re-working HAD to be done. Once you pull the heads, you might as well rebuild it right!
This has become Vin's job! He has put in at least 8 hour days and at least 5 days a week.
I'm very proud of him and his accomplishment so far. His attention to detail, his enthusiasm and doggedness through so many trials and tribulations that only a route editor can truely understand. (I'm not one of them. An activity designer).
The wait is going to be worth it! With his additions I really think this will be the premier "real" route going in the sim for both freight and passenger service.
KUJU should have him at one of their monitors!
Regards to all,
Denny
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mdman (6 posts)
Jun-01-02, 01:53 PM (EDT) 6. "RE: NECv4 Progress Report 05-31-02" are you guys ever going to do the ns port road? Remove | Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top
Vince (173 posts)
Jun-01-02, 09:42 PM (EDT) 7. "RE: NECv4 Progress Report 05-31-02" The NS Port Road branch is in as far as the tile boundry on the default NEC. Thats as far as I could take it without adding tiles and I am not adding any tiles to the route to keep it as simple as possible.
Tell ya what, why dont you plan on adding on the line after I finish the NEC. That would be a nice addition.Vince
NEC TRack Team
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Motley24Crue2 (664 posts)
Jun-02-02, 08:39 PM (EDT) 9. "RE: NECv4 Progress Report 05-31-02" Well from my Observation of this Project it does seem to be a Very very excellent Route in the Workings a Route im Patiently waiting to get my Hands on so i can Start my Project Northward to NYC with help from George (gxm149)But in the time im waiting im also upgrading my Machine to a Pentium 4 2.4 GHz 2gb Rdram and a Geforce 4 4600 Card Also a bit of Happier news My Family just got a bit Larger me and my Wife had our Second Daughter May 21st "She is 2 Years and 2 Weeks younger then our First Daughter who was Born on May 7th 2000.... heh could we have planned it a little closer?? Well anyway back to the NEC im still Gathering info on my Portion of the Northeast Corridor im only going to take it to the end of the Philadelphia Subdivision which is around Mile Post 77, im going to include the Frankford Yard as well as a Small portion of the PRSL Trackage. but my Main goal is to have the Philadelphia Subdivision complete along with all the Branches and Sidings along it Bob
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Vince (173 posts)
Jun-03-02, 01:04 AM (EDT) 10. "RE: NECv4 Progress Report 05-31-02" Congratulations to the 4 of you on the new bundle of joy Bob.
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gxm149 (300 posts)
Jun-03-02, 08:55 AM (EDT) 11. "RE: NECv4 Progress Report 05-31-02" Congratulations on the new addition to your family Rob. We are all happy for you. Again, congratulations on your new daughter, George. Remove | Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top
CNfavorite (162 posts)
Jun-03-02, 04:51 PM (EDT) 12. "RE: NECv4 Progress Report 05-31-02" Two words; Holy .... Okay, make that one word, and I'll keep the other to myself. ;) Man, this thing looks immense! I've been so hard at work tidying up Bill K's NEC2.0 and am almost finished (but am such a perfectionist, I'll never be! ;) ) What about night driving on this new version? I was always dismayed at how everything looked like a 'virtual ghost town' at night on the NEC? Keep up the good work! Remove | Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top
Vince (173 posts)
Jun-03-02, 08:34 PM (EDT) 13. "RE: NECv4 Progress Report 05-31-02" >What about night driving on this new version? I was always
>dismayed at how everything looked like a 'virtual ghost town'
>at night on the NEC? I did a lot of adding lighted buildings, streetlamp and yard lights to brighten things up a bit.
I have to strike a balance between the number of scenery objects and frame rates. The more scenery objects the sim has to display the greater the hit on frame rates.
Back to pounding spikes.Regards,
Vince Cockeram
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MRRextreme (209 posts)
Jun-05-02, 01:11 AM (EDT) 14. "NECv4 Progress Report 05-31-02" LAST EDITED ON Jun-05-02 AT 01:13 AM (EDT)Looks good keep up the good work. I am really interested in the results of the NEC update.
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