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Category: Trainz Work In Progress

A blog showing off my models that are work in progress.

  • Bugs (Trainz work this time)

    Bugs (Trainz work this time)

    This is why I never consider anything finished.

    So latest thing is, I uploaded my EPB unit to my site which if you looked, you’d notice its a pretty old model. In preparing it for Trainz 2019+, which required a lot of changes (I mean a lot!) and plenty of dependency and bug fixing, I noticed a big problem with the cab that I completely forgot about, I took this screenshot in TS2010 as I didn’t think ahead… again! It was build for the JET engine anyway. It works in the E2 engine as well, which suprised me.

    The biggest glaringly obvious problem is the brake handle and the power handle, both rotate the wrong way. A few hours of tweaking and it works properly. 4 notch controller doing a 180 degree spin and the brake handle now rotates 90 degrees. At this point, it still has 4 notches and the real thing has between lap and apply, an infinitive amount of notches on the brakes, its EP self lapping. Driving it on “Auto-brake” in Trainz is honest to god – hell (at least to me)! Unpredictable and either you slam on the brakes too much or too little. So I added a ton of notches, the brake handle hated it, test, test, test. Still hates it until I realise I got a tag wrong. If I remove the word “lap”, it functions like a normal EP brake handle.

    Then clean up the rest of the controls, some work ok now, some don’t, the AWS button doesn’t work yet properly, but its on the list and I plan to make that a push button anyway.

    Then it was the turn of the DTS in the Class 416. The way I done it is that 415 DMBS does both units (in reality, there is little difference between the 2.). Getting them to function like Driving Trailers wasn’t hard, it was easy infact, one tag.

    Then the physics, I used TEE (Trainz Engine Editor) which I still have a copy somewhere, installed it, dumbed down the power as 500hp per DMBS and it STILL shoots off like a rocket. But its more playable. Its tempting to then mess with the body, I figured out how to show blanks and tail lamps in TS2019 plus, just model a red square and redo the headcode box. If you look at the flying brick, I’ve employed this method for the tail lamp which paves the way for mesh attachments.

    At least the Class 416 DTSO (Semi Compartment) has its passenger view back, but I really need to remove the Monkey Bars, which I don’t think they were fitted to BR Designed units, or at least not 3 of them as some may of been fitted for the Oxted Tunnel (that was 2 of them).

  • Rediscovering work… (Updated 16/07/25)

    Rediscovering work… (Updated 16/07/25)

    …. to publish on this site!


    Here comes another blog about WIP stuff, I’ve been trying to look for objects I’ve not touched but would like to publish for everyone to enjoy and this is one of them in its current form. Actually, I was messing with it on the train this morning but a power cut saw to that – knocked out both of my desktops and one had 3DSM open as I use a thin client. Thank you Scottish and Southern Energy Networks (SSEN), maybe it might be time to invest in a UPS? If you’d like to help, please click the “donate button”.

    Anyway, looks like this, I was planning to texture it today just quickly, so players have something to paint. That didn’t go well either – train delay which meant I couldn’t switch the desktops on afterwards. That’s another issue for another blog that I have to be careful what I talk about. Sorry.

    Forgotten, but to be honest, I don’t think this item has much interest in it, the only thing I know is that this Westinghouse People Mover, first installed in 1971 was installed at one airport – Tampa Bay Airport in the USA. That was it, only 2 cars known unless you know more? Please add a message below. These are the only 2 known cars of their type and seem to be the first ones after the Pittsburgh Skybus Project – that’s another model for another blog, but the SkyBus looks very different. For a start, a doorway on one side, no end windows and just a vehicle that you could only see out the sides with 1960’s computer tech. Rumor has it, it wasn’t even computerised, it was actually manually driven on a circuit. One vehicle still survives too. Still, enjoy this small model. Best worked in shuttle mode.

    (Also, unlike other models, this one is actually quite light on the system resources, 4,000 polys in total – or there abouts.)

    Want to play with it? Download here (needs the Westinghouse C-100 from this page )


    EDIT (16/07/2025): Rather than make a new post, I thought I’ll add to this one. If you want to play with it (possibly moans about missing track – so you may need to change that), you can play with the underground station. I’m reluctant to release the track at the moment as I am not sure of the licencing conditions of the concrete texture and I have to go out somewhere to find a suitable texture – good luck to me. As for the station:

    Its high poly, its also pre-rendered with the textures, so they are baked on the station itself – reskinning maybe hard, but you are welcome to try and show me what you have come up with.
    Download here

  • Hard drive failures and found files

    Not WIP as such but when I get some spare time and references, I do still work on it.

    This meant to be for Trainz and I think the file is released (you can download it here: https://www.wessexelectricnut.co.uk/files/wip/trainz/PRRB.cdp)
    So I’ve been looking through my files as I’ve had 2 hard drive failures, one on my main desktop that luckily recovered most of the data and was safe, I later put that down to a system error corrupting files and the install of Windows 7 at the time.

    The later one actually happened more recently and I thought Iost everything I moved from May 2024 – my last known backup. The hard drive? Dead, completely dead. It was also installed in a NAS, a 4TB hard drive that was mixed with another 4TB hard drive and that was set up in RAID 0 (Striped) – BIG MISTAKE. Its a 2 bay NAS drive with RAID 0 and 1 capabilities and I thought I needed more than 4TB of space. As it turned out, I didn’t. I planned to go back to RAID 1, basically mirrored and I was in the process of doing so, before I could get hold of a hard drive though and budget for it, the troublesome drive decided to crash, completely. When I mean crash, I mean non recoverable. I discovered more recently that I had more data than I realised, recovered lots from hard drive recovery programs and recovered more than 90% of it. Luckily, also, the highly sensitive bits are actually on a Microsft OneDrive, so isn’t affected. (I also have a strategy in place as well now – like I did then for highly sensitive files, but it didn’t work).

    So here is another mesh to enjoy and view without Trainz that I discovered.

    Its a ParkRoyal railbus, I have found plenty of reference except the cab profile and some interior bits and its been an interesting project, I have more railbuses to upload over time that will prove interesting and in some senses still in development. Just waiting for time and resources to come my way to finish it off – the worst bit has been the Leyland/BUT/AEC engines, or in one case, the Meadows engines.

    (Please note, I’ve reduced the quality substantially on this model)

  • LEV 3/R3 Railbus

    On my main blog, WordPress blog, you may have noticed I was making this:

    You may of noticed that I’ve actually used the exported model in the model above and not that you can’t see it at all, there is some detail missing, this is deliberate as I managed to split the assets up into individual ones then use the attachment point to clone them. So, the seats are one mesh and reference through a mesh table, likewise for the windows, which using a modular approach, you change these 2 elements quite easily – or add your own.

    How it looks n Trainz 2019

    Theres one other very good upshot – LODs! LOD’s take a LONG time to incorporate into a model and it’s not easy; by going through a more modular approach, it means one seat has one trainz.lm.txt file and the computer does the rest. It also means sub meshes also update instantly with a trade-off being that the text file gets more complex over time. (Hence if you download the file, you will quite quickly find that the model has a lot of weird attachment meshes). It also has a cab view that… is doing my head in! Thats another story for another time as the gauges are a problem now, trying to get the brake gauges to vaguely work has been a mission. Thats not the only problem, getting the brake gauges to read correctly has been a big mission, at least the Speedometer is nearly there, just got to change the texture on the sticker and make it look like something used a “Brother P-Touch 2000” label maker to remind drivers of the maximum speed.

  • And while I’m blogging.

    I thought I’d upload a model for everyone to be mesmerized by.

    Its LEV 3 – well a hybrid of LEV 2 and LEV 3. I’m not 100% sure on its history so I can’t write up an entire history of it, but I do know that it started life at Wokington, bodied using Leyland National 2 bus parts, mounted on a frame, sent to Derby for trials, then ended up in service on various branch lines around the country. As a research vehicle, this is one of the very few that carried passengers for evaluation and trials. There are plenty of photos of it online where it was in service on the Severn Beach Line which is between Bristol and Severn Beach. (Also passes near a landmark between St Andrews Road and Severn Beach, that being the Prince of Wales Bridge or the Second Severn Crossing).

    Sometime afterwards, it was sold to Northern Ireland Railways to work on the Coleraine to Portrush branch, having a reputation of finding “the very end of the line”. Trials then concluded and then sold onto the Downpatrick & County Down Railway in Northern Ireland where it resides to this day.

    LEV2 however, has had a much rather less fortunate history, built as a demonstrator for the USA, it reportedly ended up in service with Amtrak who later found it a liability as it was too light to operate some level crossings, also known for its reliability issues. It got sold onto Cheat River Railroad, who operated it for some time before selling it onto Connecticut Trolley museum -during this time, there was an active effort to bring LEV2 back home, sadly, it was reported that the new owners were not as cooperative as the UK based groups had hoped and was listed as “scrapped” in August 2021.

  • Move along…

    Nothing to see here, just a test


    (Now with textures)

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