Rendering by Tim Muir
From digital artist Tim Muir:
Here are some of the 950 class cars and a lonely 600-700 class Hollywood at Ocean Park. I've been building these for my own use on "routes" I've also been building for Microsoft's Train Simulator. The simulator is old and obsolete by today's standards, but thanks to some intrepid third party modelers, code writers and tweakers out there, the old sim has been improved far beyond what MS had originally released in 2001. I have made dozens of PE cars, locomotives, and freight cars. I've done almost the whole 950 class Venice cars, leaving off at the last couple with the odd window patterns. There's about a dozen Tens, "Portlands", assorted box motors and all the Portland RPO's. I've been very partial to the Venice Short Line and made models to populate a little module of the VSL in the 1930s, the Ocean Park car house being the center piece. The sim's "game engine" that drives it is very old and does not support models with a high number of "polygons", all the triangles that make up the model. So I have to try to keep detail to a minimum.
Thanks for sharing, Tim!
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