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Most of my content is available for download from the Auran Download Station.

My Trainz user ID is 203465

To download you MUST be a registered owner of a Trainz product.

Under NO circumstances will content be distributed by any other means.

CLICKING ON AN IMAGE WILL OPEN THE DLS DOWNLOAD PAGE

South Eastern Coal (SECX)

South Eastern Coal operated their own trains out of Hazard Kentucky through the 1970s and 80s. Their trains are a feature of the East Kentucky route.

A pack of 4 PaintShed GP38s. My first content, these locos are far from perfect. Since late 2010 Jointed Rail have beautiful freeware versions of these locos in black and also in the later green scheme.

A pack of four re-skinned H62R hoppers. Two livery variations, each with a loaded and an empty hopper.

SECX ex-MoPac caboose.

RRMods.com H62R Hopper Re-Skins

I love this model by joram24 and have had a lot of fun skinning it for several real and freelance roads. The skins based on prototype hoppers are as close as possible to the APPEARANCE of the real thing, but the prototype is not necessarily a H62R. There are comparison photos of some of my models and the prototype hopper that provided the inspiration on this page.

Prototype Roads

Chessie System - B&O

Chessie System - C&O

Chessie System - Western Maryland

Western Maryland Grey. (Note: The DLS has the wrong screenshot image for this car, the link is correct)

Penn Central Ex-PRR 1 - Restricted Loading

Penn Central Ex-PRR 2 - Restricted Loading

Penn Central H62R Hopper 3

Penn Central H62R Hopper 4

South Eastern Coal (SECX) 4 Hopper Pack (2 skins - loaded and empty)

Pennsylvania Power And Light (PPLX)

Indianapolis Power and Light (EWSX) 1

Indianapolis Power and Light (EWSX) 2

EWSX without IPL logo (Empty) - different running number from the Loaded version below.

EWSX without IPL Logo (Loaded) - different running number from the Empty version above.

Wisconsin Central

Wisconsin Central (ex- Lake Erie Franklin & Clarion RR)

Wisconsin Central (ex- Burlington Northern)

Four BPRR hoppers.

Freelance Roads

Appalachia South Eastern (Red)

Appalachia South Eastern (Black)

Danagger Coal Corp (DCCX) 1

Danagger Coal Corp (DCCX) 2

'Terrain Only' Routes

I do NOT create HOG/DEM maps on request.

Terrain Only Routes are 'bare boards' routes with no scenic ground texture other than lines indicating the (approximate) position of rail lines, roads and rivers. Trainz users are free to download these 'routes' and modify them in any way desired. The routes are created using DEM and TIGER data via the HOG (Hand Of God) utility. If any resulting route is released I ask only that you acknowledge this original source, other than that they are without end user restriction except that on no account may any of these routes be used as part of any payware product or as part of a compilation of products which include any payware product.

To see the 'Tiger' lines in Trainz you must download the HOG texture set from Fishlips old site - click here. Download 'Textures.zip', unzip to the desktop then import the texture folders via CMP/CM2 for TRS06 and up. For TRS04 move the textures into a new folder TRS04\world\custom\ground. The 'ground' folder does not exist, you must create it.

All HOG/DEM routes are Trainzbuild 2.4 and will import into all Trainz versions TRS2004 and above.

The licence agreement on all these HOG/DEM routes is simple: Free to use as required except no route derived from this work may be distributed as payware or as part of any compilation of products which contains payware. Please acknowledge the source in any distributed route based on this HOG/DEM base.

Have fun...

Of all the routes I have started this is the one I would most like to see finished! It offers an attractive regional carrier with run-through traffic from CP, UP, BNSF, CSX and NS all of which run grain and/or coal unit trains to destinations on what is truly a scenically beautiful line. The DEM covers the western half of the PAL - from west of Paducah (including Metropolis, Cook Coal Terminal and the Joppa Power Plant) to east of Madisonville, including a huge swathe of country to north and south. The whole thing is huge - well beyond any single route, but there must be a dozen worth-while projects included in this DEM. The route was created in two parts and merged in Trainz resulting in a slight misalignment at the join which will be very easy to fudge. The opening view is at the merge. A huge route with well over 100Mb in the raw terrain cdp alone.

Indiana & Ohio Railway: Valley Junction, Ohio to Brooksville, Indiana. The base for the route I started but will probably never finish. A very simple route through the valley of the Whitewater River. Not a lot of operating potential, but it could be a really pretty route.

MOJAVE - BARSTOW CA. Actually from a few miles west of Mojave to east of Barstow including the yards at Yermo and Daggett. This map had to be made as two routes and merged in Trainz. There is a misalignment at the join of about 300 meters, but it should be reasonably easy to fudge the area concerned. The opening view when first loading the map is the join. By pruning overlapping boards it may be possible to merge this map with several of Fishlips' DEMs to create a California mega-route. 37MB approx.

CHICAGO & NORTH WESTERN: Cedar Rapids IA - Sterling IL. This one was a challenge! It straddles two UTM zones which produces some issues with alignment when merging. Also a one-piece route could not be made, the images were too large for MicroDem to process. As a result the route had to be made in two sections, then merged in Trainz. The location of the western edge of a route cannot be controlled so there was a half-board overlap between the routes creating a slight misalignment at the join. The route was designed so that both these problems occur at the same place giving an area across the middle of the map that will require some terrain manipulation and fudging of exact track alignments. A biggie with just under 70 MB in the cdp this flatland route has everything from rolling country-side to big city yards. It will be a challenge to finish, but there are half a dozen worthwhile routes in this if you feel like pruning boards!

PORT OF TILLAMOOK BAY RR: Tillamook Bay - Banks OR. This route has just about every scenically spectacular element possible - from the Port of Tillamook the line heads northwards along a cliff-hugging coastline firstly of the bay, then the Pacific Ocean before cutting inland and threading a series of deep valleys and gorges. The line has numerous water crossings and the terrain forces the line to loop back on itself time and time again - I could go on and on. A fair sized route at just over 46Mb in the raw terrain, but a lot of boards will be out of line-of-site through the mountains and can get pruned as the route is built. I love this one and just might have a go myself...

LOUISIANA SOUTHERN (ex KCS Winnfield Sub): Hodge LA - Winnfield LA plus a fair bit extra to the east, west and south. 27Mb aprox

POWDER RIVER BASIN: Want to run long modern coal trains? There must be a dozen mines in this terrain-only representation of the Powder River Basin, or at least that part of it that is within the boundaries of Campbell and Converse Counties, Wyoming. With just on 70 Meg in the cdp file alone, this is a biggie....

HAGERSTOWN PA - BIG POOL MD - MARTINSBURG WV: I got a bit carried away with this one, the route extends from Big Pool Md northwards to Hagerstown Md and south to beyond Martinsburg Wv. The cdp weighs in at a whopping 40Mb, the installed Trainz route files at over 150Mb. I doubt if anyone could cope with the whole thing, but there are quite a few worthwhile routes wrapped up in this - major yards, several class 1 roads - C&O, PRR, WM etc, urban industrial, rural branches, you name it! Just lop off lots of boards and keep what you need.

Incidentally if large-scale board pruning is required you can lop off literally hundreds at one go with no memory problems if you get rid of them before you start the route.....

One problem I can't fix - the Tiger data has the river banks shown in the same Teal colour as the rail lines, which is pretty confusing, but a topo map or Google Earth image makes things clear.

HARRISBURG PA - READING PA: Exactly what it says. Another biggie - 60Mb in cdp form. The DEM for this one is pretty ordinary, there are quite a few holes and other oddities, and the Tiger positioning varies from spot on to way off. Once again the Tiger data has rivers in the same Teal colour as the railroads which is pretty confusing, specially at the western end of the map, but not a thing I can do about that. This one was for quaker1, but is free for anybody who wants to have a go!

Oops - couple of mistakes on this one (it was done in a hurry...)

Firstly: The route is mistakenly called Hagerstown in the cdp and shows in Surveyor under that name and

Secondly: I forgot to delete the HOG texture that covers the ground - it doesn't show for me because I have removed it from my installation. I'm not about to re-upload the cdp so if you need to see the grid do the following:

TRS04 Open the folder C:\program files\auran\trs04\world\custom\ground and move the folder named Hog19 onto the desktop. Start Trainz, load the route in Surveyor, click past the black screen and select 'Delete Missing Content' from the Surveyor menu. After you quit out of the program you can put Hog19 back where it belongs.

TRS06 Start CMP, find Hog19 in your local content, right click on it and select 'Edit in Explorer' from the pop-up menu. COPY the Hog19 folder from the pop-up window to the desktop. Now delete Hog 19 from CMP, Load the route and select 'Delete Missing Content' from the Surveyor menu. You can now re-install Hog19 if you wish by using 'Import Content' from the CMP 'Files' menu and re-installing the folder from the desktop (but I wouldn't bother)....

TC etc I don't have any Trainz product after 06, but pretty sure the procedure is pretty much as per the 06 instructions above.

Sorry about that....

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