Rules: - Screenshot should be in some way (can be very tenuous) linked to a theme. Otherwise anything goes. - You can enter up to 3 screenshots, posted as separate posts. You can delete and replace if you wish. - 3rd party content / Reshades / Reskins etc. are welcomed but are not mandatory. - Previous week's winner to decide winner (can't enter themselves). - The winner chooses the new theme for next week (and becomes the new judge). [EDIT} Entries will close at 9:00 PM GMT on Friday, December 3rd and will be judged by me- cscarpenter In the event of this weeks winner not responding by 5 PM Sunday, December 5th a new thread will be created using the theme with the highest votes in this weeks poll. This weeks theme will be: "Yards / Sheds" (interpret however you wish) Good luck everyone!
I'll probably pull it out, but this one has a bit of a story. By this point (Dec 2017) I got fond of free roaming, and wanted to create the ultimate scenario. You can observe most of the wagons supplied with Donner Pass, Classic US, plus a few other DLC. Those with eyes seeing beyond the pixels can note an SD45, SD70M, GP20, a small range of UP, DRGW and BNSF in the back. The FPS was neither great nor horrible in this part but what really killed this scenario was going for the next level (of lazy) and adding a train from Sherman Hill a mile or two to the East, with an instruction to go into the portal beside this yard, towards California. (Edit: Gosh, this IS California. Well, to the beach!) Fixing the instant Out of Memory error I got whenever the scenario tried to load was funny. I had to look away from the yard, going all around the city of Roseville to allow all this to unload, and then I could click said consist and delete it. Had to be a Side Step King, if you know what I mean. Not a Fan! After all those hours of glorious editing, I spent 15 minutes pulling this coal train, I got bored, and removed the scenario. I guess every physical model player can relate!
During one of the Also RS-11 scenarios on Horseshoe Curve, you leave a siding in Cresson and then get to go around this yard, with your train now on the closest track:
A few moments earlier, two men oversee as you prepare your train to leave on the short 5.5% grade. One of them doesn't like to look into your headlights but enjoys the view of the small yard in the distance instead.
Apparently these forums don't like filenames beyond 100 characters. Pitiful! Anyway, to finish off my short RS-11 set, here is a picture I may have shared earlier, of a cloudy summer day in Johnstown. Having taken this string of coal from the nearby source in the hills, you are staging it here so that it can be taken to the mainline later.
A pair of AP37s haul a container train through York Yard Sth reception on the DPS North East England Route.
BNSF H-BARBAK1, led by an ES44DC. passes UP's bakersfield yard while swinging on to BNSF's main for the remainder of it's trip to BNSF's bakersfield yard.
Steam Gala Day at the Barrow Hill Roundhouse. (L-R) JT Class 20, DT BR Standard 4MT, DT BR Standard 2MT, DT LNER N2, DT BR 3F, BR Class 03
Steam is everywhere and not a diesel in sight at the B&LE's Albion Roundhouse one late summer afternoon in 1940. A 2-10-2 Santa Fe goes for a spin on the turn table while its sister engine idles on the ready track. The engines are sandwiched between a pair of 0-6-0's, one stands idle at a water spout while the other carries out yard work in the background. Route Used: Bessemer & Lake Erie/Penn Steam Locomotives Used: B&LE Santa Fe, B&LE Six-Coupled
It's the spring of 1942 UP's Ogden Yard is filled to the brim with cars waiting to be switched out. Wartime traffic demands have sent American railroads into overdrive and the UP is no exception. It is also here where traffic is interchanged with the Southern Pacific. Route Used: Union Pacific's Wasatch Grade Locomotive Used: N/A
Hi Folks, apologies for being a tad late posting this weeks results, have to work till silly O'Clock most days at this time of year, but hey ho. Right here we go:- I award 3rd Place to Buynot for this great shot of a yard full of U.S. Steam In equal 2nd place Craigie-C for the great container terminal shot & Steam Gala day, sorry but love them both. I was really pulled between two shots for the honour of this weeks winner, Tryznia.Andras for this wide angle shot, and the story behind it. and mfeets for this similar wide angle shot. I finally narrowed it down & decided to award 1st place and the honour of judge & jury for next week to mfeets. Congratulations and thanks to all for taking the time to participate. I hereby pass the Master Key to mfeets to take us forward to week 34.
Congratulations, mfeets! Also thank you, cscarpenter I had four posts, so yeah. I was DQ anyway. ps.: You just kindly included everyone on the podium.
Thanks guys! Guess I'll go with before 2000. https://forums.dovetailgames.com/threads/unofficial-screen-shot-compitition-week-34.49556/
oh crud, I forgot to submit this week as I've not been on the big PC much. Anyway, congrats to the winner and all the entries were great.
