Fast Tracks

Run across this extraordinary rendered video of a diesel locomotive running through the desert.

Be warned that you will need a high bandwidth connection to view the video, but it is well worth it.

http://www.pure-mirage.com/html/Kelso_L ... t_Play.htm

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Ron Warris
Fast Tracks

Quite amazing!

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Graham S
Modeling the MN&S and SOO LINE in the 1970's

http://soors27.fast-tracks.net/index.php

great video!

Animation is very smooth and well done. Music was very enjoyable, and the heat waves and text effects at the beginning were awesome.

However, I have to nit-pick. Feel free to skip reading at this point if you feel so inclined:

Talk about a Spartan Cab. No seats, very little in terms of instrumentation and controls. Throttle was at idle to the best of my recollection, which will not do for 75mph (too fast, intermodals typically do 70, a coal/grain/whatever train is rarely assigned enough horsepower but this train was so short I could see the speed being doable by a single 6-axle unit.) if you're on level ground...Unless of course, the train has a tailwind of 75mph?

Numberboards on the loco are missing, and where are the ditch lights?

What kind of hoppers are those? And why so few (I count 25)?

A Dash 9 doesn't come with a steam whistle. And what's up with the funky front coupler?

My god.....I'm turning into a rivet counter!

Jon