#Ragins Train Sets

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turbid bronze
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deez fucking things

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strange quiver
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yeah, that's why I have a separate MU coach too

turbid bronze
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that said, being able to sit and watch out the front of the 2000's was fun

strange quiver
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also its better to let the player decide imo

strange quiver
turbid bronze
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South Australians? I know right

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It's OK, I was actually born in NSW

strange quiver
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I probably should re-do the code for them in GOPs to be more realistic, because rn a 2 car set has both motor cars

strange quiver
crystal crag
strange quiver
turbid bronze
strange quiver
turbid bronze
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but anyway

strange quiver
turbid bronze
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tsk, yeah, using all that time to work on video game mods instead. Unbelievable (please don't stop).

strange quiver
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just keep hoping I don't get a job 😦

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Uni does start up again on the 2nd though

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but It's legit only 2 days every 4 weeks

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so...

civic ether
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Southerners…

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Love the QR emus you’ve got in here

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Very keen to run them on my next save

strange quiver
strange quiver
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give me some time and I'll have some QR locomotives too >:3333

untold viper
turbid bronze
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straya posting intensifies

strange quiver
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idk why but that just made me realise QR basically didn't order anything from Comeng

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only things would be the 3100 class, and technichally the 2170 class (although they were just rebuilt at a comeng factory by clyde)

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Queensland worst state now, asked to leave federation

turbid bronze
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i don't mind the banana benders, it's WA that needs to up and fuck off

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the remaining states in australia immediately go bankrupt

strange quiver
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I want control over their goofy locomotives

strange quiver
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N class is apparently more difficult than I realised, but it's not too difficult

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biggest issue is that the greebles are assymetrical

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but for the most part it's basically the same as an SD40, which I've already drawn

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maybe the hood roof should meet the cabs?

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I think that works better?

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signal gate
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is that a bone?

strange quiver
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pretty much

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a passenger bone too

signal gate
strange quiver
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yeah, I actually looked at your sprites to see how you did it :3

signal gate
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can also

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depend how much chassis frame is needed

strange quiver
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I don't need too much, irl the chassis goes to platform height

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tried messing with the flared radiators like on that class 70 and idk if it works

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okay I think this works

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turbid bronze
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nice, got that shading in there to emphasize the shape

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it's the one thing I'm always so impressed by with andy's sprites

strange quiver
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yeah, it's why I shamelessly copy him 😛

turbid bronze
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Good strat

strange quiver
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also, it's night and day between my current N class and the PGT era one

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god it's so bland 😦

turbid bronze
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Yeah, flat with shading vs actual texture

strange quiver
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yeah 😦

turbid bronze
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I think it's possibly still a bit too 'crunchy' but it might be just seeing it so zoomed in

strange quiver
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I little bit, but I can always touch it up before I do the liveries

mellow loom
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I prefer a flatter look a lot of the time, but yeah it’s possible to go too far either way

There are a few liveries I’ve rushed over the years that are basically just solid blocks of colour

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I find that adding texture can sometimes impact the shape negatively or forces you to go with lighter or darker shades to force visual differentiation so it’s a tricky balance for some models

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Depends on the shape though - add texture to steam trains or tanker wagons and you can VERY quickly ruin the shape of the boiler/tank by adding texture - whereas for a very block EMU you can get away with more for sure

strange quiver
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yeah, it's a balancing act

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the way I tend to do it is if I can zoom out, and still see the outline of the train, it's good

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and if it looks too flat up close, then add more detail

crystal crag
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@strange quiver got 2CC Cargo wagons with Cargo Recolours working >:3

strange quiver
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now I have no excuse not to do my own freight wagons now 😦

crystal crag
strange quiver
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I'll have to copy it for my hoppers 😦

crystal crag
# strange quiver I'll have to copy it for my hoppers 😦

Here's the steps I took:

switch (FEAT_TRAINS, SELF, sw_5_PLANK_WAGON_getwagon, STORE_TEMP(CB_FLAG_MORE_SPRITES | PALETTE_USE_DEFAULT, 0x100)) {
    return sw_5_PLANK_WAGON_randomtexture;
}

switch (FEAT_TRAINS, SELF, sw_5_PLANK_WAGON_recolour_load, STORE_TEMP(switch_generic_recolour(), 0x100)) {
    return sw_5_PLANK_WAGON_cargocheck;
}

switch (FEAT_TRAINS, SELF, sw_5_PLANK_WAGON_compose, getbits(extra_callback_info1, 8, 8)) {
    0: return sw_5_PLANK_WAGON_getwagon;
    return sw_5_PLANK_WAGON_recolour_load;
}```
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There's probably (definitely) room for improvement on this code snippet but this should get you started when you do your wagons

strange quiver
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easy >:3

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I might give it a go in the coming week or so

signal gate
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the purple range is particularly useful for recolouring

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it's easy on the eye and has nice contrast with everything else

strange quiver
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yee, that's the colour I was planning on using

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since I know I'm not gonna use them anywhere else

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one thing I'm gonna have to do it probably modify the sprites to change depending on the cargo type tho

crystal crag
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I'm using the fire sprites since it stands out a lot and also doubt I'll be using it

strange quiver
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e.g. a coal style hopper loaded with iron ore will be visually filled less due to iron ore being denser

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but aaa, future problem for future me

signal gate
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at this zoom level, you will find you never care about that detail 😛

strange quiver
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I will though!

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tbh now that I think about it, it'd be a cool game mechanic

signal gate
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there's already a density setting on cargo

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FIRS makes acid tankers deceptively heavy IIRC

strange quiver
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I'll have to play with that then

signal gate
strange quiver
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what I'm thinking I could do is that an IRL 'coal hopper' might be able to load up to 100t of coal, or 100t of iron ore, it's just loaded lower as a way to visually show the different densities

signal gate
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'cargos that cube out before they gross out'

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are a thing

strange quiver
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but IRL ore cars would be designed for the higher loads, so that can fill up with iron ore and might be able to carry 100t in a smaller car, but might top out at 60-70t of coal due to lack of volume

strange quiver
strange quiver
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I guess I'll do an ore car and coal hopper at the same time to test it

signal gate
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I think FIRS leaves all 'tons' cargo at 1t = 1t

strange quiver
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I'll see how it works out then

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for my freight cars I'm gonna try and do IRL capacities where possible

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so it won't be like iron horse where you have standard capacities for each generation of wagon

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IRL coal hoppers can carry a ridiculous amount of coal 😦

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Also I'll need to work out how to do liveries so aaaaa

signal gate
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RL capacities 🙂

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I'm not gatekeeping them, but you open yourself up to minmax players

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and their feedback

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and it's a lot more deciding things

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minmax players are absolutely the worst for feedback

mellow loom
signal gate
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they're great for finding broken

mellow loom
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Like bro this is a 30-80cm/pixel scale

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A solid 50% of my feedback responses are “you’re right but you’d never be able to see the difference”

signal gate
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GPT that

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also one of the delightful things, having been around Foamer forums for years, they're often wrong

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limpet adherence to facts continues even if there's a misunderstanding, or wrong context

strange quiver
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or I could just include a toggle for that

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"RL capacities or Iron Horse Style"

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actually, I might do that, then server owners can set it up the way they want, and then it's balanced against stuff like Iron horse if people want to play with them together for some reason

strange quiver
strange quiver
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my other favourite is the people who hear of something they're not familiar with, and then just assume I'm making it up

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I had a guy who said I didn't know what I was talking about because I mentioned a long distance version of the hunter railcar in my last video, and that it was never planned

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which must be news to UGL who made the trains, and designed a long distance version in a report that I have sitting on my desktop >:/

signal gate
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concept empiricism

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aka black swans

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"philosophy degree is actually useful" day

strange quiver
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yeah

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I just move on, I'll get my satisfaction when I show off the cool stuff they don't believe is real >:3

turbid bronze
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I think it's important to be picky about who's feedback you actually value. You try and appeal to everyone you'll make something that appeals to noone.

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I do appreciate that about andy's work, it's not for everyone, it doesn't need to be.

strange quiver
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I know

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ultimately what I make is designed to work for the games I play, all else is secondary 🙂

turbid bronze
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hey it's my more wisened and enlightened version of 'tell people to fuck off' which was how the Aegir of yore behaved 😛

strange quiver
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maybe if I feel like being mean I will go that route :3

signal gate
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some of the times I wanted to say 'fuck off', I considered the feedback, maybe saw something in it I hadn't seen before

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adjusted the grf

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sometimes it's a shit suggestion but for solid reasons

strange quiver
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yeah, that's why it's best to listen if possible

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but sometimes if it's really dumb or the person's really annoying you've gotta tell them to go away 🙂

red stump
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yeah there's probably only like 20 people in this whole discord with good informed ideas or suggestions

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I think it's fair to ignore the majority of the population here

strange quiver
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is this from your experience working the servers? 🙂

red stump
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my favorite is the person who's been playing the game for like 10 years without being involved in any of the community stuff, so they think they're the Master God Kings of OTTD and they have some really good ideas about how to change stuff around here when they find the forums or the discord

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and it's all stuff that has been tried before and didn't work at all

red stump
strange quiver
mellow loom
mellow loom
# strange quiver ultimately what I make is designed to work for the games I play, all else is sec...

Yeah that’s mostly where I fall - I’m primarily making it for me because I want to use it, but it’s nice to have others enjoy it

I have some basic philosophies about the set (it’s fixed consist for MUs, it has to at least have run on UK rails even if using a little artistic license) but beyond that I’m happy to take most feedback on board and fix any minor bugs or quirks as long as it’s not a ridiculous amount of time needed

strange quiver
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tbh idk what the philosophies behind my sets are, they keep changing

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"add everything and do not stop"

mellow loom
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The ADHD approach. “Ooh shiny thing I just thought of” x 1000

signal gate
red stump
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r/openttd is a lost cause hahah

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It's the most "cba" I've ever felt about anything

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Reddit in general is just bad now

mellow loom
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Some communities are still good, some have totally gone to shit

soft stump
red stump
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It rarely contributes to good content and represents the lowest common denominator of topics most of the time

soft stump
mellow loom
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Sure, by being for beginners you do tend to find it's usually basic questions, but that's valuable to the community too

red stump
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I've never gotten anything out of it but sure haha

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lets not derail this thread too much

mellow loom
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And means they're clogging up the "power user" spaces less....

mellow loom
turbid bronze
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@strange quiver congrats on the release!

strange quiver
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thanks, but I just realised I call them both CNAPS >:/

turbid bronze
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Lol, also I’d like it if you fix the purchase menu alignment of the MU trailers 😛

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They look off compared to everything else 😛

strange quiver
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yeah, that's something I'll fix soon-ish

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it's from a dumb way of doing purchase sprites back when I did GNARTS that's just carried over 😦

turbid bronze
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God, pretty comprehensive list now. I’m going to need to work out a new grf list for a game soon I think 🤔

strange quiver
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well when do you, feedback is always appreciated 😉

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Bananas updates the listing in the content downloader when you update the metadata right?

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because I did that for the description of both sets and it hasn't updated seemingly

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I'm guessing it just takes a while

turbid bronze
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¯_(ツ)_/¯

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Dunno

strange quiver
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guess we'll find out then

turbid bronze
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Looked fine enough in bananas

strange quiver
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yeah, it seems to have been fixed now

strange quiver
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decided to do the A/B class instead

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one change I think I'll make from the NA set is I'll include the class designation in the description

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I wanna use model designations since some locos were shared between railways here, but had different classes (e.g. the SAR 930 class and NSW 44 class both being ALCO DL500s)

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but most people probably don't know the model designation, so I think this is a good way of working around it I guess?

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maybe I should change class to representing or something?

turbid bronze
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Oceanian, btw

strange quiver
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oh god damnit

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okay, code done, typo fixed, now it's livery time

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idk what went wrong with V/line in the 2000s but this livery is genuinely horrid

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Also should I move the A class from the passenger category to mixed traffic?

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IRL it was designed for high speed passenger trains, but it did go on to work freight trains too

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it's probably fine, I can always move it later, and there's nothing stopping someone from running it on a freight train anyway

untold viper
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A66 my beloved

strange quiver
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B class locos done

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and the A class too I guess

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banked ids for each loco so any loco can have basically any livery, although I'm not gonna do that, since I don't think it'll be as neccesary for this set

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but a B class in a NZ or QR livery is possible!

strange quiver
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trying to do one of our goofy boxcabs before bed

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does this look right for a 422 class?

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here's the blueprint for comparison

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strange quiver
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looks better with the cab and the like lowered, and the roof shading adjusted

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the slight curve down of the roof near the cab ends is a pain to match

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I think copying the windows that Andy did for his Hymek also helps

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goofy goobers

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N/Z Types done

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I don't have anything in the PTV livery, so I'm just using a freightcorp 422 class

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also I included NSW liveries for more variety

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much better

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steep echo
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that is extremely orange

strange quiver
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they were very orange irl :3

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steep echo
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im not sure about the most orange pixel but that could be me being picky

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it looks too red

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i mean the first pixel on each row of pixels on the carriage roof

strange quiver
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there's really not much I can do to change it tbh, since this is all company colours

steep echo
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ohh

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i guess people must not use the darkest? shade much

strange quiver
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don't think so tbh

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I generally use all of the CC colour spectrum for my sprites tho

steep echo
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could be how our monitors show colour idk

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this has all 8 shades i think

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out of curiosity could you send me your grf

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i wanna see how it looks on my end

strange quiver
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sure

steep echo
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thanks

strange quiver
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the locos are in COLP, while the passenger cars are in GOPS

steep echo
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what is the carriage called?

strange quiver
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Z-Type

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I'm also using the NewCC set, so my company colours might be slightly different

steep echo
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OHHHH

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yeah that one makes the orange more orange

strange quiver
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yeah, kinda forgot that was the case

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woops 😦

steep echo
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xd

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yeah thats how your stuff looks to me

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i wanna see my set with the newcc grf now

strange quiver
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give it a go, I tend to put it in all my games

steep echo
strange quiver
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a little bit more orange

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also what set is that from btw?

steep echo
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kst scandinavian trains

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or something idk

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(i made it but forgot how i named it)

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the version on bananas is really outdated though

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this version is 35 minutes old

strange quiver
steep echo
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it is a scandinavian train set with stuff drawn by me, brick and meja, but ive already added hungarian stuff to it, yugoslav stuff is getting added, german, belgian, im even going to redraw the whole sbb set in my style

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so scandinavian isnt really accurate i guess

strange quiver
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fair

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so it's basically a 2cc european set then?

steep echo
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no

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it has real liveries but every livery has a 2cc option and an inverted version

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the main focuses will be scandinavia and switzerland

strange quiver
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ah, fair enough then

steep echo
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real liveries are using varients and 2cc is in refits

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it has a unique scale but it works well enough with the sbb set

strange quiver
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fair fair, well best of luck with it 🙂

steep echo
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thanks))

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been working on it for a few years on and off, it started as a branch of 2tall2tyler's danish train set which i commisioned

strange quiver
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ah, fair enough then :3

steep echo
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like this

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proud of it tbh

strange quiver
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you should be, they're pretty good sprites imo

vestal minnow
strange quiver
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Apparently the mystery would have been solved if I looked at wikipedia more >:/

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it's unsourced, but it warrants more research

strange quiver
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Oops, all GM class

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strange quiver
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I shouldn't have decided to include Pilbara locomotives

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I stg researching them is a pain because there's no info, and there are so many rebuilds

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UGL rebuilt a bunch of old ALCO C636 into C36-7s >:////

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why

untold viper
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The Pilbara has like two people, who cares smh

strange quiver
vestal minnow
strange quiver
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they're not wrong

woeful halo
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and I thought infra projects in India are shit

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oh it's a driverless tram system

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guess it has teething problems?

strange quiver
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The CBD light rail was just slow

vestal minnow
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Thought this was cool to share

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Old American rail ads

lone minnow
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nice

strange quiver
mint cargo
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Amtrak in GNALPS universe...

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red stump
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Amtrak in AI art hallucinations lol

soft stump
strange quiver
mint cargo
mint cargo
strange quiver
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also, I've been busy so I've haven't worked on anything, but I've decided to do the 82 and 90 class locos

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posting this here so I come back to it, because I have to go work on something else for a bit :3

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I think AI still struggles with locomotives a bit, since every time I try and get it to generate an "Australian" locomotive it generates a european design

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it really doesn't seem to understand what Australian locomotives look like

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even when specifying a "NSW 90 class" is spits out some American/European designs

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strange quiver
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yeah, which is very far from what I asked for

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I don't think there are two locomotives that look more different

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signal gate
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recently GPT has been able to explain to me why the image generators aren't doing so well for lots of subjects

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it really does just come down to training data

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they need a lot of manually classified images, preferably with labels directly on the significant features

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there are a limited number of large training sets available, so the image generators are tending to be limited to what's in those

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I guess they might be learning also now from the prompts they're being given by real users

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but that means they're probably 90% pseudo-porn

strange quiver
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yeah, I'll have to take your word on that since this isn't something I'm knowledgeable about

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we'll see if it gets better, because it'd be really good for coming up with ideas

signal gate
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I just asked GPT about it a month ago 😛

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GPT might have made it up

strange quiver
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well they do tend to hallucinate :3

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every so often I get it to write a script about something I'm doing research on, and it always includes so much nonsense

signal gate
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I use it like a subeditor, I give it drafts and ask it to improve

strange quiver
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I guess that works for it

lone minnow
strange quiver
lone minnow
strange quiver
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ah fair, well they're both Australian locomotives :3

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although the NR class is built by UGL, and the 82 was built by their competitor Clyde Engineering

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strange quiver
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got the 82 class drawn, and now I'm working on the 90 class

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I think this looks good, but idk if the greebles are good?

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the 90 class greebles are pretty flat IRL so I guess it'd just kinda look like that?

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they also have this weird cover at the rear for whatever reason, and idk how I'd go about doing that

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twilit grove
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Eh

strange quiver
strange quiver
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82 and 90 class done

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did them in the SRA scheme too, which they never wore, but they look good in it

strange quiver
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what if Australian National bought some too?

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I need to do more goofy liveries

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or just AN stuff

untold viper
lone minnow
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Looking good

lone minnow
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Wonder if the trains from Just Cause 4 would fit in one of your modpacks as a near future train ( 2020s-2030s )

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There's even three liveries ( Civilian, Black Hand, and Army Of Chaos )

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Might be a bit too outlandish tho

strange quiver
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I should probably loop back to them

strange quiver
lone minnow
finite mountain
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I know you said you're currently taking a break from North American themed stuff, but I thought I would leave this here as another livery idea you can do for the Stadler KISS, this one being an Amtrak Surfliner themed one

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You could also do a Coaster or Metrolink one to go along with it

strange quiver
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dw, it's already on the list :3

finite mountain
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Anyways, switching away from North American rolling stock and locomotives, I would love to see you make the XR Class locomotives along with the XRB units too if you haven't considered doing them yet

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strange quiver
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I will :3

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I'll probably do the X/XR/XRB class together in one batch

strange quiver
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oh btw, does anyone have any ideas for more electric locomotives for the Australian loco pack?

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here's my working document

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the current electric loco roster is rather empty

untold viper
strange quiver
untold viper
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Purple and Orange are the best

strange quiver
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I don't agree but sure :3

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the 2000s era of Vline liveries are just boring/bad imo

untold viper
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This is sexy af

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strange quiver
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agreed, I love those Vline liveries

steep echo
steep echo
strange quiver
vestal minnow
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Imagine if the railroad companies stayed in the passenger business

lone minnow
# strange quiver the current electric loco roster is rather empty

Is this already in?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_South_Wales_45_(later_71)_class_locomotive

New South Wales 45 (later 71) class locomotive

The 45 class (later the 71 class) was a class of mainline electric locomotive built in-house in 1952 by the New South Wales Department of Railways' Chullora Railway Workshops. With only a single locomotive in the class, 4501 was renumbered 7100 in October 1961, which freed up the number range for the 45-class diesel locomotives.

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I knew it looked familiar

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yee :3

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yep

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damn there's not much to work with for electric locos

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yeah...

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which is why I've gotta make some up

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or 'import' some (make australian versions of foreign electric locomotives)

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86 class done, in both Co-Co and Bo-Bo-Bo versions

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soft stump
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They tried to pull the same shit here in Buenos Aires

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They wanted to build an "ART" which is just a lobg battery bus that runs on it's own road

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Unfortunately the Brisbane "Metro" is real

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Yes, it’s satire. Same site that gave us #1019109703453790298 message

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Good stuff though 😄

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Xiamen BRT is the real BRT, others are just awful

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https://www.reviewjournal.com/local/local-las-vegas/brightline-west-what-you-should-know-about-the-planned-high-speed-rail-system-3059329/?fbclid=IwY2xjawFPYhtleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHeHHFnthIA1LzRsDB8gu6efSH1rmw6m1TaeMUu2en6j6MPRmTjTCfstxCA_aem_geEmzEqFdVsbn4eC0KtwRQ

Las Vegas Review-Journal
News Engin
Brightline West: What you should know about the planned high-speed ...

With the project’s different backers and plans over the years, some might need a refresher on just all what the long-awaited project entails.

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The North American extra zoom set has them

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But not sure if they have these future trains

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I'm just working on uni/youtube stuff atm

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doing research for a video

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Maybe I should re-code the Comeng and Tangara in GOPS to be able to work together...

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thats the one off 4D, not a regular tangara

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I know, but in GOPS the Tangara and 4D are the same

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considering it only happened once, i doubt it would be necessary

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yh, but it could be a fun addition :3

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it'd be one line of code to change anyway

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if there is a refit option for a 4D, could make it only work with that refit?

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yh, that's probably doable

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Or a variant?

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Ah okay. Because livery refit limitation probably wouldn't have worked

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Not conveniently, at least

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yee, this is why I stick with variants

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they're so much easier

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also, just found out about her

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apparently in 1924 WAGR bought a small electric locomotive from Metro-Vick for moving coal cars from East Perth Yard to a nearby power station

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into the loco pack it goes...

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All the electric infrastructure for one locomotive on one line?

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Hm

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a metrovick catalogue I found indicated this was more for a long-term electrification project that never got started

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but 600v DC is really low

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so idk

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Operating costs won’t be high being at the power plant

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it's something I'll have to look into

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Definitely

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https://youtu.be/h5Y-_5QtOjI?si=UNWX4zW5T48YrbfB

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The Tim Traveller
How To Watch This Saturday's European Tram Driver Championships | T...

Saturday 14th September is the day of the 2024 European Tram Driver Championships! And because I know my audience, I thought you might like to know there is an OFFICIAL LIVE STREAM ON YOUTUBE starting at 11am. Tbh this video is more a public service announcement than anything else.

OFFICIAL LIVE STREAMS HERE:
English - https://www.youtube.com/w...

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I wanna go watch that

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Is this still being worked on?

Looks nice!

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it is, I've just been distracted working on other projects :3

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TGV proposal in Texas?

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But doesn't Texas already have a proposal for a Shinkansen line?

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How are they gonna have both that and a Shinkansen

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Those are two completely different types of high speed rail systems

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This was from the 1990s and never implemented

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Great for an “it could have been” scenario

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If we do that we need an ICE and an X2000 in Amtrak livery

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got sent the original elevation drawing of the Comeng Tangara proposal

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and aa, it looks so good

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Oh that’s cool

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I need to do more videos on unbuilt trains

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so more people send me blueprints

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ooooh

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A friend actually showed me that design a while back

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iirc he did a drawing of it too

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Bootleg LVT!

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ooooh, lots of wierd european designs :3

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is that a steam locomotive?

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YES

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The EP23 (high-speed (160km/h) version of the ET22) existed only as 1 prototype

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The bogeys were the same as in ususal ET22 which made an snake-like motion which was considered very unsafe in highspeed operation

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It is said that the drivers were scared to drive this thing!

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I could imagine

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The project was closed, becouse redesigning the bogeys was considered too expensive

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(BTW EP08 runs 140km/h instand of planned 160km/h becouse of the same reason)

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(Thay decided to manufacture it with snake-motion bogeys and just lower the operational speed)

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Look at here

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ooooh, strange

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the secret ingredient is crime

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it's currently in the John Dunn collection which is owned by the Loftus tramway museum

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@strange quiver

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You can find suprisingly accurate drawings and informations on the widly-aviavable-internet, but searching may take some time

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but I do just know people

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also yh, I do go through books and archives occassionally

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Indeed, not anything can be found on the internet...

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But eg. missing deminisions can be estimated on the basis of size of elements (or other vehicles) which are on the same photograph

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(Yes, I do 3D modeling)

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@strange quiver

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true

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but I also know the dimensions for a lot

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the pantograph isn't always something to go off, since they're not standardised

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and you can't use it as a reference unless you know the specific model

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track gauge is something more relevent

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true, but that's only usable if you have the front elevation

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indeed

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Also the blueprint may be unevanly scanned so rectangles becom thrapesus etc

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yeeeee

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CC7100

Just check the diffrent shapes of the cabines

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Prior to 1990, we had two transcontinental rail routes in Canada

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Since then, Banff, Calgary, Medicine Hat and Regina have been cut off from passenger rail service

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it's a big country eh

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BTW

Does Canada still use open section hard sleepers (platzkart like in Russia)?

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Budget cuts to via rail, our passenger rail operator

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https://youtube.com/shorts/5jRMtmDe8Ng?si=QC_F3s7jNi-pFtgd

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SMT Mainline
New $3.4 Million HO Model Train Museum of America in Maine #hoscale...

I recently found out about a new model railroad museum that opened at Sea Shore Trolly in Kennebunkport Maine. Construction of this layout started in 1989 and gradually expanded to 900 square feet of space. The set features over 3000 feet of track and 500 pieces of passenger cars, freight cars and locomotives. The layout was brought to Kennebunk...

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also, spent today filming trains for a video and I'm dead

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I think someone stole this guys target plate (it defo wasn't me)

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Wait a minute. Since CalTrain is retiring their F40's after this and TRE's own are ex-Amtrak, doesn't this make Metra the last remaining operator of their original F40PH fleet in the US?

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Oh wait- I forgot about Tri-Rail

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And MBTA too

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MBTA retired their original F40s several years ago. They are still running F40PH-3C models with a separate HEP generator

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Hmmmm

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tbh I should probably give atrain a go

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It is an very good game series!

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List of fictional trains in japanese release of A-train 8

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The european ones sadly were cut from export versions

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ooooh

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I'll have to look into it

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Yeah
But as the game series was not an hit on export markets it would be great if You had somebody that speaks japaese for help whan looking up screenshots

BTW

Somebody is makin an A-train3/4 inspired baseset!

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yee, I saw that!

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it looks really cool

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https://youtu.be/efLu-f9ueSY?si=DuJC2P1Gqx-YCDLp

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Simply Railway
America Is Finally Getting Some Good Transit – Caltrain’s Game-Chan...

Howdy folks,

Finally, on September 21st, the new @caltrain EMUs made by Stadler took over the Peninsula corridor between San Francisco and San José Diridon. Justin was on board to take a look at these brand-new trains that will boost transit in the Bay Area!

Many thanks to Justin for filming on my behalf :)

Enjoy, and don't forget to like an...

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New electric trains in California

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yee, I saw

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I need to get around to drawing them, but I've been distracted working on my own videos 😦

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Hopefully since CalTrain has made the switch to a mostly electric fleet apart from the trains that will be used on the Gilroy extension, this makes other commuter rail systems see the benefits of electrification

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Maybe FrontRunner could be next since Stadler's facility is based in Utah and they own most if not all of their track

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mental musk
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Whan an public beta release?

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there's already a version of the US passenger and loco pack on bananas

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just look for CNALP/CNAPS

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may You give me an link?

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mental musk
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This is gonna be an BIG set like 2cc...

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the sets I've posted about here are what I'm working on now

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GOPS on its own is already massive, and it's not done

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What game are these from?

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they are mock ups/prototypes drawn for real life before the final product

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Damn

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Industral Giant 2

AT least the last 2 are fictional

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Also some are partially fictional eg. 4 axle version of PRR E44

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LA had an extensive rail network until 1961

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It saw a decline after wwii

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mental musk
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Great American Streetcar Scandal by GM

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Isn't that mentioned in the movie Who framed Roger the Rabbit?

vestal minnow
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Most cities in North America had streetcars from the 1880s-1950s

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Other factors include their deteriorating trackage and the unwillingness of private operators in fixing them or the perception that streetcars are old and slow

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Problems of capitalism...

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The destruction of streetcar systems was kind of a global phenomenom in the developed world. My home city of Buenos Aires was once known as the city of trams and nowadays only two lines (which weren't even part of the original system) and one historic tour remain. Very sad 😦

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Btw I've been playing with GOPS for a while and wanted to thank you a lot for it. It's great to have a 2cc set alongside IH.

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It's honestly so useful because it allows you to feel a bit more free in relation to theming

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So yeah, very cool

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Thats good to hear, because thats what I was going for

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I just need to finish it 😦

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rest in peace trams, people will come to realisation much much later

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That's so sad, I hope they find their way back into the world's cities

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been working on a video on fast rail in Australia, and apparently the V/Line N class locos were designed to operate with the 160kph R type coaches...

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which means they could have operated up to that speed...

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maybe when I do the N class properly I'll gear it for that

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also it's quite good that I'm able to use GOPS sprites in my videos

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they come in really handy when showing off train formations

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Haha nice

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Use OTTD for B roll

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I legitimately use the game Rolling Line to animate rail industry training videos in my real job (with permission). Haven’t found a use for OpenTTD yet but I’ll keep trying. 😛

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originally the plan was to talk about different train types to show off GOPS, but I dropped that because I had access to a fair bit of real footage

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I was going to include a section on un-built trains which might be better suited, but that's a future project

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one issue I had for this one was getting a photo of the ass end of a series 1 S set motor car, and I tried using Trainz22 to show it off, but they only have the series 2-4 ones so that was a no-go

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might be something I'll have to look into for future tho

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Also I've got this timeline I made for a video that I really like :3

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@strange quiver
Hmmmm

It apears that some problems are worldwide...

-delating sleeper trains
-dreadfull urban development by greedy developter
-destroying heritge
-dreadfull (f-ing) demoliberal politicians and thair ideas

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Greetings from Poland!

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Yeah, I love how universal so many problems are :/

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I agree

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though the dismantling of tram lines where I live started with the communists

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that is funny

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Shindai Tokkyu (Sleeper Express) is nearly gone in Japan

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And loco-hauled passenger trains are experiencing reduction in China

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dim pulsar
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Running, but that EMU is very old now (started in 90s) and may face obsolescence

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But what I prefer is this, not sunrise ones
The art style of sunrise ones make me feel “too luxurious to be lively”

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Nice photo!

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To be specific, this design is much more lively than sunrise one

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Ticket?

I do not know japanese language...

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Yes, it is ticket. But notice the red part on the top right, it is the symbol of this train

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I don't think even one country in Europe uses seprate logotypes for diffrent limited express train lines...

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I just mean, I very much like this

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Nowadays I think the oldest EMUs are around 50 years old though they will be replaced soon

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oh btw, I'm gonna have a fair bit more time next week, and I'll probably work more on GOPS

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has anyone got any suggestions or bugs?

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I spotted a few (such as the push-pull trains no increasing in weight with more cars, or the MU car expiring), so I know there's more

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apparently all the MUs i've coded have that same bug, which is annoying >:/

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oh also has anyone noticed all the goofy comments I include in each trains description? I think they're fun :3

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Here's a new proposed-but-never-built train for you, courtesy of @tall merlin 😄

Pennsylvania Railroad high-speed EMU, with a front similar to the GG1 and a beaver tail observation car at the back.

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Just drawings

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Very JNR

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i would have said it looks more french

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For me it looks like the DB VT11.5

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It could have been…

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I even started drawing it but couldn't get it to look right

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Haha we were talking about it last night and I’d never heard about it. Not surprised that you have, though. 🙂

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Yeah :3

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Tbf I first found out about it because I saw one of his tweets about it

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Track equipment is not a train 🙂

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they're technically converted speeders, but they're used as railcars on a line in BC

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaoham_Shuttle

Kaoham Shuttle

The Kaoham Shuttle is a Lillooet–Seton Portage passenger rail service along the northern shore of Seton Lake in the Squamish-Lillooet region of southwestern British Columbia. By BC Highway 99, the eastern terminus is about 252 kilometres (157 mi) northeast of Vancouver.

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BBC article from 2014 describing a trip on it

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Serves a remote area, mostly Indigenous, left otherwise unserved after the closure of the bc rail service in 2002

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Factorio concept-art

Like the design

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mental musk
# strange quiver oooooh, it's not really soemthing I'd do in any of my sets tho

yeah, but it does somewhat resamble some of the very first french diesel locos

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/262_BD_1

262 BD 1

La 262 BD 1 est une locomotive Diesel-électrique (double articulée) du type 2'Co2'+2'Co2' pour trains de vitesse, construite en France en 1937.
Deux locomotives ayant la même disposition d'essieux mais différentes dans leur motorisation Diesel furent commandées en 1935 par les Chemins de Fer PLM : la 262 AD 1 (4 Diesel de 6 cylindres M.A.N.) et ...

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also, I was in the mood for drawing, so I drew an interurban :3

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it's based on the carbon steel design for the U-set trains, but it'll be introducted in the 1930s, since they were considering electrification back then

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just the war got in the way

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tomorrow I'll do liveries and the actual U-sets

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also I went to the transport heritage expo today and me and my friend took some cool pics (I haven't gotten mine off my camera yet)

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they had W3 there with it's tulloch double deckers, which I should probably draw and add as an option for putting in red sets

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and apparently I didn't get any photos of W3 which is annoying >:/

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This illustrates the decline of passenger rail in North America

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Cincinnati in the 1950s and 2022

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yeah 😦

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liveries done >:3

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In game these arrive in the 1930s, so irl they'd probably be gone by the 80s

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but I guess they could have made it into Cityrail's fleet

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U-sets done, idk what else to do with their liveries since IRL they were just in plain stainless steel

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althought it was actually based on the liveries used by 620/720 railmotors in Cityrail hunter line services

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and the Vsets are done >:3

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# strange quiver and the Vsets are done >:3

In the early alpha version there was also an passenger (160km/h) electric loco lacking express coaches...
But you could attach MU trailers (but with that loco thay had an silly capacity) that used similer sprites

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that was based on the NZ EF Class

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The graphics looked nice

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but theyre not related to the V sets at all?

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tbh i dont remember

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The graphics were good, but the parameters...

Not only all trains had placeholder running costs
But also the MU trailer capacity whan hueled by locomotive (as there were no high speed passenger coaches) was like 30 persons for such an large vehicle

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yeah...

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at least my new stuff is better

vestal minnow
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Alongside the North American trains

strange quiver
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I guess they kinda fit in?

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re-did my Tulloch SMR railmotor sprite

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I added more liveries too, so now there's a basic stripe, SRA and Cityrail livery

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IRL these trains only wore the SMR livery (2nd one from the top), and were destroyed not long after being built

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but it makes sense that if they survived, they would have made it into the SRA's/Cityrail's fleet

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I think some of the other railmotors are gonna need a rework tbh, but the Craven's one are probably the most in need

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also if anyone can spot any sprites that stand out as terrible, lmk, because remastering sprites is pretty easy

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you sure you dont want to do the ADK properly?

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blue roof

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Others have gray roofs

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I wonder just WHY?

Perheps rebuild of unrelated classes of non-self-proppelled coaches into MU?

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idk

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thats just how they are

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Either way, I'll keep them the same just for gameplay purposes

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Since I want them to be modular like all the other MUs

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I wonder why they did them that way, that seems really odd?

mental musk
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Thay hired an druk russian to design this?

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you never know

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kinda tempted to make the cursed early XPT interurban design

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with the rear driving trailer

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I don't think the code should be too hard

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god my old XPT sprite needs a redo aaa

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it also lacks a radiator down the side, which the XPT and Class 43 had, instead having a larger one on the roof

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I took an XPT this year

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What an experience

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I'm hoping a positive one :3

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It was the Brisbane to Sydney

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Casino to Sydney actually

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I was supposed to get the Syd - Brisbane back but one of the power cars broke so we wouldn’t make it over to QLD before morning services started

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We had a 3 am transfer to coaches at Casino instead

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yeah, that sounds like the XPT

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they tend to break down often, but they also have some of the highest workloads of any passenger train in the world

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Yeah I read up on them they have a very intense roster

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iirc most high speed trains do 250-300k kilometres per annum

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XPTs average 500k per annum

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Other than Australia being bigger than European countries is there a reason for that?

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there's only 58 passenger cars and 19 locomotives

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and they have to cover Sydney to Dubbo, Melbourne and Brisbane

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of which each service is 2-3 trains per direction per day

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How far apart are they?

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That is quite long for a corridor service

civic ether
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The xplorer to Canberra was decent

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I think I saw a video once of someone taking one of these and remarking the early arrival time

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and its especially impressive considering the XPTs were originally designed for Sydney to Wollongong, Newcastle and Canberra services

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4 am before the commuter trains arrive

strange quiver
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they were never designed to go as far as they do, it was only later they started doing it

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Yeah that’s Brisbane by the sounds of it

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legit the XPT is probably one of the most impressive trains ever designed imo

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Oh yes saw a documentary on the ghan

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But you wouldn’t see these on our long distance trains

strange quiver
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there were plans for Melbourne-Adelaide XPT services

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so you guys could have seen them!

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Were the tilt trains ever considered for NSW services

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Yeah

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but Specification 2542 appendix D which created the XPT did state that the PTC would consider tilt trains

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however they were not prefered

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there have been other tilt train proposals for NSW, but none got off the drawing board

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there was even meant to be a tilt train double deck interurban for newcastle services, which I still need to add to GOPS

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Oh that sounds cool

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it is >:3

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I’m sure these trains will only be used on corridor routes, not the long distance routes in the west

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Sir, are you koalafied to be standing over the yellow line like that? 🐨

This un-bear-ably cute passenger found its way onto the platform at Casula station last week. While it took a self-guided tour of the station, a train guard notified the Securit...

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barely anyone uses that station anyways

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I hate code >:/

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spent like 2 hours trying to get the push-pull code to work the way I wanted, and I couldn't work out why I was having issues

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turns out I needed to change one tiny bit of code >:/

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I have a thumbnail to make for a video, and then after I'm finishing up liveries

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maybe I'll do the X2000 after

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tbh the X2000 would look cool in a candy livery

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amtrak stuff https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLO_efX6frg

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# signal gate amtrak stuff https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLO_efX6frg

Neat!

E60s!
old stremlined coaches still bearing old user colours!
GG1s and non-HEP version of E60s running with an generator van!
E44s! (Why the 2 loco set operates long hoods outside?)
Metroliners!

Do I see heavyweight coaches in the short consist with GG1? I know that some were vougly operated by Amtrack

strange quiver
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just thought it was neat 🙂

strange quiver
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well, it had the same effect

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interurban XPTs done :3

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post war interurban coaches done :3

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mental musk
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Kamieńczyk train

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@strange quiver

strange quiver
mental musk
steep echo
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mixed double and single deck sets done :3

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decided to finally code the tullochs as separate cars so now you can wack them into trains that they IRL worked with

vestal minnow
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Hope to see high speed trains on the corridor someday

strange quiver
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I'm tempted to do some high speed trains tbh

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we'll see if I can be bothered to do them today, otherwise it'll have to wait until next week since I'm going camping

strange quiver
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NSW R-type coaches done :3

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also the answer to 'will I draw HSR before going camping' is no

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got distracted doing coaches, realised I made a few mistakes, and then gave up 😦

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Have a nice camping trip! 🙂

vestal minnow
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Yes have fun camping!

vestal minnow
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Amtrak to Mexico? Currently they only serve Canadian cities outside the US

strange quiver
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camping was fun :3

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and now I have uni work to do this week so aaa

strange quiver
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also I was thinking about the told tropic refurbishment set while I was away, and I'm tempted to take some of its near-future stuff, remaster it, and wack it into my sets for fun :3

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but that's a future project, rn I've got a planning assessment to do. End of this week and I've got my bachelors >:3

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I'll still shout out the set tho, because tropic refurbishment set is one of the things that inspired me

mental musk
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Funnly the fictional EL15K future loco looks like an old russian electric locomotive!

Wel.. Good design is timeless! It would be great if we came back to simple, bloxy, brutalist designs of train exteriors
The current turboplastic is too... Turboactive and too angry...

strange quiver
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what's the EL15K? I can't find it in the set?

mental musk
strange quiver
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oh yh, that's a weird soviet thing

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I could probably port some of the proposals from that set into my US stuff tho...

mental musk
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Sunset?

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AKA CaliforniaHigh Speed Train

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HSE-10 "Sunset"

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AKA the Never Ending Story

strange quiver
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I could, I'll have to bump it slightly more in the future though

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maybe 2030s-2040s

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since the last version of that set was 2007, and we're in 2024...

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so what was nearfuture for them, is the past for us

mental musk
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Yeah...

Visions of technology of the future in games and movies often age dreadfully

(WHERE is my selfdriving car?)

strange quiver
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I remember in 2009 when still in elementary school, I read an old magazine in their library that claimed by 2010 paper magazines will be no longer and we'll read everything online. Obviously a few months later we still had paper magazines so it didn't come to be

strange quiver
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yeah... people used to be a lot more optimistic

turbid bronze
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the more everything changes the more everything stays the same

strange quiver
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yeah 😦

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"by 2015, PC will disappear, the chips will be planted into everywhere" -- 2003 Computer Magazines

mental musk
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all that post pc is SHIT

Do thay really thought we could eg. type long documents, use advanced spreadsheets, play advanced games, do 3d modeling, photoshop and control manufacturing lines from smart phones?

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Not that crazy if you could run a desktop os and use mouse, keyboard and monitor but that of course assumes software won't become more demanding

strange quiver
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getting around to fixing those coaches I munted the code for the other day

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the top one has been fixed, now it has a diner and brake coach at both ends of the rake, while the one on the bottom is yet to be fixed

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for some reason I just assumed coaches in Australia only had brakes on one end of a rake, but that doesn't make sense because they need to turn around

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R-Types fixed, and now the Waddington interurban coaches are done :3

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Kestrel HS4000

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in USSR

strange quiver
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Ooooh

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Funnily enough Tullochs offered a kestrel based locomotive to Commonwealth railways back in the day

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So I'll have to put one in the loco pack

strange quiver
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X2000 drawn :3

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gonna do liveries now

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I'm not gonna do it in the SJ liveries, but instead I'll put it in the XPT liveries to represent an alternate universe where countrylink actually bought the X2000

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oh wow

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its good

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will be interesting to see how it compares in our sets

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given ill be doing it too

strange quiver
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yeah

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if you do wanna use mine as a base, or as a refernce, you're more than welcome to btw

steep echo
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we draw at a totally different scale

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thanks tho xd

strange quiver
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all good, nw

mental musk
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the russian TEP70 (which is manufactured till this day, but in an modernised form - TEP70BS) is based on the Kestrel

mental musk
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I know that an single expample operated in China

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BTW

Line Hong-Kong <-> Canton seems to be an magnet for european stock...

X2000 and Lok2000 operated on this line
ER20s are based in Hong Kong and quite possible also operate there...

I wouldn't be suprised if french build locos 6Y1 and 6Y2 (analogues of series F for soviet railways, based on french CC7100 but AC powered) also operated there...

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yeah

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interestingly enough, Comeng even designed some cars for that line, but they never got off the drawing board

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the Hong Kong Light rail uses vehicles designed and built by Comeng and Goninan though

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which is strange to me...

mental musk
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the bidirectional double deck (like british busses) streetcars are weird too...

strange quiver
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yeah, hong kong is just strange place

mental musk
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Singapore is even stranger...

strange quiver
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yee, I'm aware

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there's for some reason a large singaporean diaspora in Sydney

mental musk
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For anyone from Europe Australia is strange too...

At lest the local wildlife looks beutifull (and is equely agressive...)

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Is it true that there are snakes crawling literally everyhere?

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No not really

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I mean yes but no

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The possum in my roof however is restless and craves blood

strange quiver
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the biggest threats are the birds

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there's a group of plovers and crows that have claimed my backyard, and they're fighting the Kangaroos to see who has the right to rule it

mental musk
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I know that in New Zealand there are some parrots that have figured how to open an tourist's car's sunroof to get to the interior to get food LOL

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the blue ones

turbid bronze
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Kea’s

mental musk
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very smart

strange quiver
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they're concerningly smart

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bloody sulfur crested cockatoos are known to destroy the facades of buildings for fun

strange quiver
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god I hate doing push-pull trains because their liveries take so long to do aaa

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in a better world, these would be real 😦

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decided to make the VFT (don't question why I'm doing it at 2am, I've been ill)

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I also used Andy's Alize sprite from Iron horse as a base, although I did modify it

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the livery/design is based on this painting by Phil Belbin back in the 80s for Comeng

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touched it up with a little bit of white to simulate the "VFT" text on the side

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its also so annoying that we came so close to building it, but it fell apart last minute 😦

strange quiver
severe elbow
red stump
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thinking of adding this to my current IH game

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maybe I'll wait until the modern eras come around

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I do need to add more liveries for the VFT though, since there was only one, since they didn't get built 😦

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I would just use whatevers on nanners, I made it a prerequisite for myself aha

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and Im still in the 1940s ish

strange quiver
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I'm gonna wait until the passenger coaches are more fleshed out

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no worries, I'm doing a static era game but eventually once I finish it I wanted to do a 70s version of the map

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could be neat to flesh out my IH rosters with some other 2cc trains with a similar vibe

strange quiver
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well I'm sure my stuff would fill that role :3333

mental musk
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it uses similar colours but I think thats the end of any similarities lol

red stump
strange quiver
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Southern Aurora coaches done :3

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Southern Aurora was just the name of the Sydney-Melbourne Sleeper train back in the day

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_cruiser_Aurora

Russian cruiser Aurora

Aurora (Russian: Авро́ра, romanized: Avrora, IPA: [ɐˈvrorə]) is a Russian protected cruiser, currently preserved as a museum ship in Saint Petersburg. Aurora was one of three Pallada-class cruisers, built in Saint Petersburg for service in the Pacific. All three ships of this class served during the Russo-Japanese War. Aurora survived the Battle...

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You haven't heard about it?

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oh, I have

mental musk
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It is definitly on the top 10 most famous boats ever

strange quiver
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I just didn't know that's what you were refering to

mental musk
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Although I see that the name was used also on other ships of unrelated designs and uses...

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aurora is just the lights in the sky

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not specifically a russian thing

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The history textbooks in china call it as "Afuleer", I still don't know how this translation come

mental musk
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most likely something lost in translation/transliteration...

Just as Japanese call Mazda Matsuda
And Koreans Hyundai Hyong-de

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https://www.ddinstagram.com/reel/DAj9HprAgY6/?igsh=ZzF6NDJjMHRjc3Zp

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im only interested on what it will look like on the outside tbh

strange quiver
vestal minnow
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also, had another job interview today, and came home wanting to finish the 44 class sprite I started work on last night

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I don't care if they blow smoke like no tomorrow, I just want them back 😦

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turbid bronze
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or Comeng tbh

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tbh with how badly old alco blow smoke, it'd be funny to code them so they all have giant black smoke clounds being emitted at all times

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Comically large cloud

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That’s great! Best of luck on your interview

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also, sprite done

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I'll do liveries later tonight or tomorrow, but rn I've gotta get ready because I'm doing an Australian moment (going to the pub)

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Well deserved after your interview

severe elbow
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NSW liveries done on the 44 class :3

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gonna do the SA/Australian National ones now

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apparently the 930s only wore two liveries really

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mental musk
vestal minnow
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I remember watching the koala brothers occasionally on tv as a child

strange quiver
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although the early 930s only had one cab

strange quiver
mental musk
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It was aired in Poland too

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re-did the silver fern, and now it looks so much better

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it also better supports company colours now

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previously it only had silver/yellow, and they were fixed

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but now the yellow on the front is CC2, and I added a fun CC1 stripe on the side :3

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Love these, specially the closest 2-car one.

strange quiver
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thanks :3

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Koru railcars re-done too, and with two more liveries :3

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really nice!

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Comeng Railcar's redone (they're called the 1400 class in the last GOPS version, but they'll go to the brand name of "Railcar" in v7)

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