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The Madisonville, KY-Big Bend, FL train was mocked with RDVIs and EMD muscle, a little inaccurate but a make-do with what I have.

Here is the train through Plant City, Valrico, and Yeoman. Valrico since had a lot of progress on it after the production of the included video.

Plant City (Continued)

Now that it is semi-upgraded to 12 standards, Plant City now looks even more realistic... Though, the frame rates began to suffer a bit. The speedtrees are nice but not for medium end PCs. The video that was taken in this op. session does barely register as smooth, though. ;)

Here's Q188 with UP power, indirectly a pun on one recent Sunday where 187 had UP power that had to return north.

Progress....

Not on my routes though just yet!

It's been a frustrating two weeks. I order TS 12, yet it's corrupted. I royally screw up a file on my TS09 making me uninstall it. I miss a get-together with my friends. But it's all over. The game has come. Though it took a reinstall (content errata when importing)... it's all chill now.

The Wait Is Over

The big routes are now making their final trip to my well-registered copy of TS 12. I am very pleased to have this as well as the complimentary payware courtesy of Jointed Rail as offered for the wait and the buy.

Hiatus and a lesson

When I got TS12 from my good friends at Jointed Rail I had a great prospect that the downloads would go smoothly. Unfortunately, they had overlooked N3V Games' own mistake of  providing corrupted files for dealing. Of course with a half-ass TS12, I had the greed to hack my TS09 copy to y'know, have doppler because there is a certain config that could simply provide it. Of course I hacked too much and the game [09] stopped working. Nonetheless I did the forseen a bit early and uninstalled the game; but of course did the smart thing and moved all 16.12 GB in my stash of content to a subfolder of Documents. So there's really no full Trainz version until the fix is done, presumably by Monday. This explains my lack of updating this fine blog in all these days.

I did manage, until Wednesday, to work a bit on the Park Road Industrial District (Plant City, Florida) which has a couple of industries, to which I believe are served by O711 (the Plant City local) No wonder they named it Park Road, because of the giant warehouses for General Chemical and another place I cannot name off the top of my head. The same road, CR 523, connects to the Plant City Sub so hell I wonder what creative railfanning can be simply done on that road.

In all this crap for three days I did learn a valuable lesson, patience pays. I will probably have (an albeit nonalcoholic) drink when it's all over and will be relieved after the tense waiting process. There is hope, and two to three YouTube videos that will follow suit when it is done. Another supposed reward is more coupons from JR for the 4 days of waiting.

Plant City

Train Q188 runs from the sun eastbound at dusk on a spring evening. Inspired by my March 19th catch of said train.

Despite the unavailability of GE AC6000CWs I use two JR GEVOs.

I was originally skeptical about applying the TC built in Lamp NY 07 asset but chose to as to give a nice light bloom effect at night. These are the closest to the lamppost style the town of Plant City uses.

Plant City

The heart of the small railroad town east of Tampa, FL looks pretty complete. I am at the point of expanding detail and installing ATLS on the crossings. For information on ATLS, go to this site: http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&cd=3&ved=0CCQQFjAC&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.boatztrainz.co.uk%2FATLS1.pdf&rct=j&q=advanced%20traffic%20light%20system&ei=kp-jTYaCIZGhOpHehOkJ&usg=AFQjCNGwlpep2CLrwJB9-nqn5FcPcXX0Cw&sig2=Pjt-rz6UxLoCTj6aw5Yb2A&cad=rja

For some added fun I have a pic at night (which is the time I was working with Trainz due to its automatic clock) and day. Taken east of the diamond to show the most of completed areas.

Yeoman Yard (A little more progress)

Featuring Q740/The Juice Train:

Yeoman Yard - Bypass Canal

A WIP area for my route.