LIRR Open Rails Model Progress Report

Ladies & Gents,
Have finished up the LIRR Central Extension. That two major branches in a month Long Beach and the Central! Constructed several custom buildings along the way, the A&P warehouse with track in building especially nice.Built from scratch with Google Sketchup7.
All track is installed to the http://www.trainsarefun.com/lirr/lirrtr ... ckmaps.htm Track Maps of Conductor Robert Emery
The little inset at the upper right of the pic is the entire system, ~700 track miles installed 100% scenery installed.
I now move on to the little north pointing stub at Mineola . . . the branch to Oyster Bay . . . about 35 miles according to the maps (thanks Steve!)

all best,
vince cockeram

Thanks for the update, Vince. I hope to be using your simulator soon.

Yes, thank you! I am looking forward to this sim route.

Literalman wrote:Yes, thank you! I am looking forward to this sim route.

Thank you for the kind words gentelmen. Lets see how long, - and I do plan on at least a 4 hour edit most days _ it going to take to complete the Oyster Bay Branch. The picture I attach is a screen of the MSTS Route Editor. All the track row seen (as white lines) has high detail scenery completed. Central runs to Salisbury, Main goes 3 miles east of Mineola. Not seen is Atlantic/Montauk but draw a line from Long Beach - Rockville Centre - Salisbury and that's the eastern limit of the track today. Stand on that line facing east and there is an Empty Long Island as it existed 50,000 years ago. Behind me to the West is ALL the track that existed in 1950. I may have missed some ( I DO need to complete The Evergreen ) but thanks to the folks who have provided the Emery Maps and Mr Robert Emery this project is actually fun!
So I begin today on this map.
http://www.trainsarefun.com/lirr/oyster ... P19-20.jpg" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
I have installed my customary about or so 1-2 +-mile of track, in this case the grades to the turnpike bridge. And look at all those neat industry sidings north of the turnpike. I see I'll need to roll out Google SketchUp and make the buildings that will go there.

The terrain up north looks . . . interesting . . . all neatly laid out thanks to NASA and their digital terrain model of earth.
And btw, nice find on Mars! Fuel and life support in one neat package.

So now I crawl back in my digital cage to join rail section panels and build bridges to the Bay. I DO miss the paint . . .
regards,
vince

Love what I see! is this going to be a route to run on MSTS? If so, how does one go about trying out the route?

The route is designed to run on the new freeware community developed Open Rails http://openrails.org/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
The new simulator is under constant development from suggestions by members of the train simming community. IOW, it's not a commercial sim and had available literally millions of freeware railroad model from all over the world.

If you'll read through my posts and maybe peek at the Long Beach: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vkJzw0MwL1k" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; and
Long Island City car float yard. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qAHtDQk2HSI" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;[/url] docks video you will have an idea where I'm at presently.
All track between the location of those two videos is complete w/HD scenery.

Presently chugging up building the Oyster Bay line north from Mineola.
When that's done, I plan down to the Montauk to build the Rockville Centre - Babylon line, then back to the Main east from Mineola - Hicksville - Bethpage - Babylon. All this jumping around is a work ethic designed to prevent the dreaded 'Route Builders Burnout'. So trying to build basically east on all lines, a little at a time, all track the LIRR had access to west of roughly Mineola to the Jersey Line out of Penn. DONE! Fully scenicked with very high detail scenery . . . and that's the rub.

It barely runs with the MSTS Train sim platform. A 2001 program can't handle or barely handles it.
That's why it runs slick as goose snot on the Open Rails platform and best of all, right now for free thousands of routes world wide available for download.
To run with Open rails I believe you do need some MSTS Train Sim content, trackshapes and scenery items but if you'll read through the pages I provided a link to you'll have a better idea. Welcome all who enjoy driving a train with real world physics.

more links to Open Rails stuff:
http://openrails.org/download/program/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; Source files and more for the geeks!
http://james-ross.co.uk/weblog/2011/12/14/01" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; for tips & tricks for running OR
http://openrails.org/learn/manual-and-tutorials/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; The How-To of Open Rails.

And it's all free developed by and for the train simulator community.

regards,
vince

Available? As soon as I can brothers & sisters.
I see it's taken me about 1 week to build the first mile to Oyster Bay. Looks like I have a way to go.
I am considering a Public downloadable Beta Release when I complete out to Hicksville-Bethpage-Babylon.
Lets see . . how long to get close to done ? At a mile a week to completely finish a segment (i only build around 1 mile of track at a time)
it'll be a while.

The big picture; Present progress of track installed 10-10-2015.
All trackside full high detailed scenery completed.
vince
Two short videos of the Long Island Rail Road model designed to run with the New Freeware Open Rails Train Simulator.
The videos were generated in the Open Rails Simulator Program. FRAPS was used for video capture.
Long Beach Completion Video >>>===> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vkJzw0MwL1k" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Long Island City car float docks Video >>>===> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qAHtDQk2HSI" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Open Rails Train Simulator Links
http://openrails.org/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://openrails.org/download/program/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://openrails.org/learn/manual-and-tutorials/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Back to pounding spikes on the way to Oyster Bay.
V

Hey Vince, thanks for the quick lesson. I've been using Macs for a while now but might buy a basic PC laptop just for playing this! Your hard work is hugely appreciated!

Attempting to download the program right now.Your graphics and digital modeling is absolutely stunning! I love the 1950's through 60's content!

I hope there are appropriate era steam and Diesel locomotives available.

What a great contribution to the hobby!

Hi, mirrodie; Robert,
At the present time the route has not been released. Working out just how in the works. No signals! No platform markers! so right all you can do is grab an engine and explore the approx. 700 track miles presently installed.

Also note that to run Open Rails with it's hundreds of routes requires SOME MSTS content for most routes, not all though.
As noted at the websites there ARE some, I think Aussie routes that you don't need Microsoft Train Simulator content.
Please read the instructions carefully.
Here's the site of whick I speak: >>>===> http://openrails.org/download/content/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

>>>mirrodie Re: windows machine. AT LEAST a dual core CPU running at 3Ghz. Quad core is better.8 Gig of memory. SSD hard drives. GTX650 video. in other words, you need cpu/video to run the Sim.
My old WinXP Hyperthreading single core Nvidia 6600, 2 Gig memory rig couldn't do better that a 3 frame per second slide show. IOW, it wouldn't run.

Best Regards,
vince

fort those that missed it, the LIRR build Album >>>===> http://www.trainsim.com/vbts/album.php?albumid=248" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
v