Posts by Slovak_Eagle

Work is progressing nicely. I am almost done with the town of Bad Meisenberg. Now working on terrain around the split of tracks towards Switzerland.

I have managed to build the southern half of the route with a lot less urban areas than initially planned. It´s better for the performance (less street details), and my sanity (less street details). I am still trying to keep the scenery interesting, from the lake at Stibitz to the Airport in Südbergen. Dreistein will have a nice river and a dam nearby, Bad Meisenberg will catch your attention with a Hotel/Spa on a hill, and the fields of cows and sheep. The car factory on the line towards Switzerland will have a town next to it, but it doesn´t have a name yet. This town will exist only so that I have an excuse of running more Swiss trains

I will have pictures from these areas eventually.

The next driving videos will include Niederburg, but as this is the central point of work and the route, it will take the longest amount of time to actually build. Therefore more driving videos from CEM Germany will have to wait several months.

Catenary in Niederburg is around 30% finished. It´s a mess of wires that even we have a hard time following, but we are making sure it is all properly set up. The catenary here is so complicated we had to draw a sketch of how we want to implement it.

We are also keeping a little progress table so we know who made what, as well as notes and stuff to keep us on track with this project. There is a lot more to come but I won´t spoil anything yet, as it is a lot of work that has been done and will have to be done.

Snipper from progress sheet:

Catenary preparations at Niederburg:

The signalling aspect of the whole route will be designed and finished towards the end, on top of other upgrades like superelevation, track condition, more details in certain locations and better mix of textures.

23 minutes past midnight and I just realised I built 3 towns in a little over 2 weeks. Yep, faster than ever. Doubt I am gonna keep this speed up as I enter the more populated areas of Niederburg relatively soon. And I haven´t started work on the city or harbor yet, nor the car factory.

I have just about finished the area around "Südbergen Dreistein Bhf" (S-Bahn), with a flyover junction that heads south to Austria. Next station is Bad Meisenberg (S-Bahn), followed by a junction for a line from Switzerland. This line to Switzerland also has the car factory on it. After that, I got another S-Bahn station at Niederburg suburbs, and then Niederburg Hbf.

Stibitz HBF + Town, WIP

Heiligenhof Bhf + Park + Town, WIP

Südbergen HBF + Town, WIP

Südbergen Flughafen, WIP

Stibitz HBF + Town, WIP

The first town on the other side of the river that divides the map in half. This town is located at the Czech/German border. Line on the bottom continues to Dabach via Stibitz Nord, Oberwambach and Rhenfeld. Mainline on the right continues to Niederfeld via Südbergen. Mainline on top will continue to Bažinov (Czechia).

Thank You Sabrey !

A week´s worth of work for a relatively small town. But it´s moving faster than ever. I think by the end of the week, I will have 50% of CEM Germany finished. Until now I have worked on the relatively simple half, with a lot of countryside. The other half of Germany needs to host the main city, harbour, airport and a S-Bahn network. A lot more towns and villages to work on.

Siebenhagen from above, WIP

Niederburg HBF (Main City), WIP

Südbergen HBF (Airport City), WIP

Siebenhagen WIP

Siebehagen WIP - Border town of BeNeLux area, Denmark and Germany. Pictured is the main part of the city. I am yet to create a freight yard and industry area. It has been decided this town will host a Sawmill-Papermill combo. Still in the process of planning the track layout.

Bottom Left - Mainline to Niederburg (main city of German region)
Bottom Right - Line to Dietmund and Dabach
Top Right - Line to Denmark (Denmark not included), future area of industries and yard
Top left - Line to BeNeLux region (BeNeLux not included. More off-map connections are WIP. More about that later.)

Dietmund Bhf + Town - Work In Progress (Coal Mine Town)

Lissing BHF + Town - Work In Progress (Resort Town)

Dabach Bhf + Town - Work In Progress (DE/PL border town - loco change at Polish side of border)



Dietmund Coal Mine - Work In Progress - You guys didn´t expect this one

Rhenfeld Bhf + Town - Work In Progress

Dietmund Bhf + Town - Work In Progress

Work In Progress: Oberwambach

Central Europe Mini has been updated for TRS22. It will not obsolete the previous version of the route. I will be slowly working on new sessions for TRS22, with new engines and traincars from notimeindeed.

This will either be the final or pre-final update to the route. I would like to update the signal system in the future, one that Mika has developed some time ago, with new signal models made by ZiuT. This is however far in the future, so I am not sure if I will bother revisiting this route to do this big of a change.

There are other projects being worked on, but I will refrain from announcing or talking about anything, as we know it doesnt end well.

Since the last update on this forum, I have uploaded "Grundorf Lokalbahn" to the DLS. A single baseboard TRS22 route, utilising HD terrain and Euromodeller trains. A small experiment of mine.

I am not a fan of being very public with works anymore, so I have not visited this forum or other forums in a long time. My updates (if any) will be sparse and late.

Central Europe Mini TRS22 will be available on the DLS only, in roughly 24 to 48 hours.

Happy Trainzing fellow Trainzers, Eagle out.