Glad I was useful (for a change!)

And you'll never need to dust off your water or edit out shadows on your sky...

TANE can be decidedly much less expensive than building a real MODEL RR. You can build your own small, in your scale, community, or a period Santa Fe route from L.A. to Chicago. Depending on the power of your P.C, of course.

I'm not Horace, but. The length of time it takes to build a "layout" on your computer screen depends on how important it is to you. Detailed, or Slap&Dash! The most time I spent was Learning how to use TrainZ software. TrainZ documentation is sparse, so it helps to get more "how-to" from sites like this one. After working with it, your mouse speed will improve. Deciding which assets to download from several thousands takes a lot of time as the project advances, or if you are trying to recreate a particular Railroad or period of time.

Thanks Zack. there's a problem though, I've not yet ventured into industry set up myself! HF

@@horacefithers6146 Uh oh lol. Well maybe you could make some videos of you figuring it out. We could all learn together. It'd be fun watching you fool around trying to get it, and watching you make mistakes would show us what not to do lmao. Just a thought. I'll watch whatever you do out out though!

Zack Bobby The multiple industries that Jointed Rail makes simplifies it. It does take a little trial and error though, lol.

There a several asset categories associated with Trainz (and Trainz 2019). There are builtin assets that are available to all authorized users of the game for no additional cost. There are DLS (download station) assets that are donated (uploaded) to the N3VGames asset database by third parties. There are hundreds of thousands of these on the DLS. There are DLC assets (usually routes or rolling stock that cost extra). These are sponsored by N3VGames although most of them are done by third party asset developers under contract with N3VGames - N3V builds very few assets themselves. If you go for a SILVER, GOLD, or PLATINUM subscription you get access to a lot of DLC content for no additional cost. I have a GOLD membership which cost abou $15 USD per month (less if you buy a year at a time) - a bit less than the cost of an HO scale Accurail freight car kit. There is also a First Class Ticket that lets one install certain items for a small monthly fee. There are 3rd Party payware assets such as those from K&L Trainz or Jointed Rail. You pay the developer, then download the assets from their website(s) and install them in your Trainz database. Jointed rail has Approach Medium's Dry Brook & Esopus Valley route for example. Finally there are 3rd Party freeware assets from third party developers who for what ever reason didn't want to upload their assets to the N3V Trainz asset database. Both K&L Trainz and Jointed Rail have freeware assets on their sites. Trainz Forge and Trainz Forge Weebly are other sources of freeware assets. - If you want to start building a route, you can get started with the free stuff. At some point, however you may start coveting a particular locomotive and after seeing video of a route decide you want to be able to run trains on it more than you don't like paying for stuff. - There are a number of free routes on the DLS. However, the quality of these routes is all over the place. Some are gems, others were made for 10 year old versions of Trainz and have next to no visual impact. By BC&SJ route (shown in other Trainz videos on this channel is available free from the DLS. However, it does make use of content from some DLC routes and use some payware locomotives (if you try to use the associated session) but you can always ignore the associated session, plop down what ever trains you feel like using, and drive 'em until the (virtual) wheels fall off. - The BC&SJ route support thread is at: forums.auran.com/trainz/showthread.php?157812-BC-amp-SJ-(Bear-Creek-amp-South-Jackson) - The BC&SJ route dependencies thread is at: forums.auran.com/trainz/showthread.php?158633-BC-amp-SJ-asset-dependencies - When in doubt, go to the Trainz forum at:forums.auran.com/trainz/forum.php and ask questions. - Horace

Horace Fithers Thanks!

Hi again. I figured it out. In Surveyor Mode, in Edit Environment I clicked on the world icon and found traffic was enabled.... but apparently cars will only spawn in certain regions. So still in Surveyor Mode, I went to Edit Route and changed the region. Only certain roads in different regions are working for me and now I have flowing traffic. Cheers again for your videos.

There is an option in Settings (under the upper left corner menus) for turning traffic on/off.

Hitting the square bracket keys [ and ] will rotate the textures 90 degrees clockwise or counter-clockwise. Or one can grab a control in the F2 (scenery mode) panel to set finer amounts of rotation. Holding down the [ or ] keys will continuously rotate textures as one paints with them.

I assume you've looked through my channel's video selection? There's one more tutorial about building a creek. You should also check out the Approach Medium KZfaq channel. And the N3V Games channel.

Oh yeah, have you gotten on the Trainz Forum? forums.auran.com/trainz/forum.php

Of course you should buy a better PC! Well maybe not... Actually that would depend on, how much $$ you have available for a computer upgrade, your existing computer's cpu, gpu, and memory, and how much you need/want/gotta-have the better graphics available in TRS19. Also, which routes do you want to run? Highly detailed routes need higher end cpu/gpu to keep fps up than simpler routes. Do you play other games that would benefit from a i9-9900k / 2080ti or do you want to sign up on folding@home to use your new super-duper computer to help figure out a way to defeat covid-19?) AMD, Intenl, and nVidia are all going to be releasing new cpus/gpus "soon". When they do the prices of existing stuff will likely fall a bit.

If you're in Surveyor and not seeing traffic there's an option in one of the menus that will cause cars/trucks to drive while editing a route. If you're not seeing traffic while in Driver mode, I think there's another option in the global settings that enables/disables car and truck movement. If this doesn't help, try asking on Google "Trainz enable vehicle movement"

Throw it in the trash?!

The locomotive was not made by Auran it was made by a DLS user. The cab was chosen by the creator not Auran.

It's obviously a one way hood. You can see it only from outside the cab... lol is right

No wonder everyone seemed so hungry! HF

You can change it by going into config files