Save any articles that may help you in the future. Some save them as PDF’s in their HD in case the web site goes away again.
I store his pages as an HTML document in my PC. Started doing that about three years or so ago with his HO suff. That way when the
pages go away and they will, you click on the HTML file in your PC
and the page will open up as if it is still live.
I have done that
with quite a lot of Harold’s stuff. Any links in the page will not
work but you will have most of the stuff. Do it now and do all the links you can find.
I made a folder called Harold’s stuff.
With Firefox browser, I click File, Save As, and what I see is:
Put a Soundtraxx Tsumani in the On30 Bachmann Mogul.html
I then click, Save into a folder in my PC. Go to that folder and
click on the HTML file. At least it works for me.
I just did it. I took my PC off line and tried it and the page
opend up as if I was still on line.
I have not tried to store them as a PDF. I will have to look into that option.
Yeah, he has good stuff. I have a bunch of his HO stuff that I saved as HTML and refer to it quite a lot. I guess he changed his mind about this virtual model railroading thing he had at the same URL for quite a few months.
Nope still in the "virtual’ world, just put the site back up found a provider that was cheap.
Virtual railroading is fun but not for everyone. My first building on the right and the finished version on the left in the “virtual world”:
It is just like any other modeling just in a different media. I find it more fun than the “solid” world, more challenging. I had done all my things on my “solid” list that I wanted to do.
Still go in the basement and tinker every now and then.
Harold
EDIT: I can do this in the virtual world:
There is NOT any good 1870’s equipment available in the “solid” world!!
This would be good for those who are handicapped and can not move around to do a model railroad while on their feet or even in a wheel chair. I am sure there are some who cannot get out of a chair on their own but would love something like this if they like trains. Makes me wonder what kind of info there is about this issue on the Internet?
That is Trainz 2010 the best of that franchise. That is my Ozark Air Line based on Andre Ming’s Ozark Northern MSTS route. The terrain is from a USGS topographical map.
I also use Railworks for other eras:
Bay of Quinte freeware
and I like MSTS running in Open Rails:
Andre Ming’s 1902 Ozark Northern payware route definitely no “solid” equipment in that era
It is fun to really run trains in a realistic environment, each franchise has it’s advantage but I play with them all.
Not for everyone, so please if you don’t like the idea please don’t comment.
I have been looking at the Trainz2010 thing here…the other ones I’ll have to check out too…thanks for the info!!
@Rich: I’ve been mucking around with a couple of other people learning some animation stuff on-the-fly as it were…I’ll have to dig some of that up out of my HDD…
My Trainz store in Railworks, with a “Rod Serling” look-alike wondering why he is in an 1870’s “Twilight Zone” episode. If you make them you can use them in all the programs.
I made the building in Pro-Engineer, a solid modeler, and textured it in Blender an “artsy” modeler. Blender exports to Trainz and Railworks. The textures were made from an Evans Designs’ “Model Builder” paper and cardboard building programs free building PDF:
I take a 'round about way but found it works for me.
