Here you will find weblinks to my favorite sites I have found useful for reference and modeling. They are broken down by category.
Trainz Stuff, 3D/2D Modeling Stuff, Prototype Stuff
TRAINZ CONTENT RESOURCES, TUTORIALS AND DOWNLOADS
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| My affiliation – without question the best layouts for Trainz |
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| The Download Station |
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| Todd Hohlencamp’s excellent site with numerous locos and rollingstock mainly Denver and Rio Grande Western |
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| Mike Sutton’s one stop shop for all items narrowgauge and logging |
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| David Drake's site that features the most realistic and expansive collection of Trainz trees and foliage on the web. | |
| Great tutorials and plenty of helpful gmax and material files |
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| Gary P’s site with the famous “Brick Box” tutorial, great for getting started in Gmax, it’s what I learned on |
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| This is Vulcan’s site. He has a great transparent window tutorial here. |
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| Mike Banfield’s site (Mike_10), lots of outstanding track and a couple tutorials |
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| Many content creators put their wares here including me |
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| Don Bush who wrote the excellent Clear Lake Supply Run scenario. A few downloads and some info. |
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| Charlie Lear’s Trainz Page, my generous webhost. A couple good tutorials. |
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| Shane Perriman’s site with plenty of old west structures and stuff. He has made or is making some great steam locos also. |
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| This site has some great tutorials for modeling and various other things related to Trainz. |
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| Specializing in the Virginia and Truckee Trainz project. Contains many old west items of all types for download. | |
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site has some interesting narrow gauge locos and rollingstock based
on sugar cane industrial types. There are many Gmax files here also
to download. |
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| Contains many links to 3d modeling and texturing resources. |
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| There is a wealth of information and resources here. Contains many free textures and utilities. |
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| Rude title but useful modeling tutorials based on MSFS modeling. |
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| Some free textures and stuff. |
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| This is the best plug-in for creating texture maps from model surfaces. Works primarily in 3dsMax but also works in Gmax. NOTE: The original Chilliskinner site and excellent tutorials is no longer available. The link given only provides the script plug-in. I found a mirror of one of the old tutorials here for reference. |
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| Tutorial that shows how to create texture maps with the 3dsMax plug-in "Textporter". | |
| Good lesson in mapping methods. | |
| THE 3dsMax plugin place. Contains the free TEXPORTER program which is indispensable for making bmp exports of model textures. |
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| 2D tutorials for Photoshop, Paint Shop and several 3D modeling programs. | |
| The best image viewing program. | |
| Several links to everything 3D modeling. |
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| The Database of all good things SHAY |
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| Great reference page on all geared steam locos. |
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| Some good info and links to Geared Logging locomotives |
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| Currently the ONLY railroad with all three geared locos PLUS a Willamette. They also have many other interesting and historic locomotives many of which still operate on excursion runs. |
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| The ultimate reference site for western US logging history |
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| Publishers of many fine railroad books and the magazine “Tall Timber Short Lines” which is packed with historical logging history and detail drawings |
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| Independent magazine specializing in logging history and preservation through finescale modeling |
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| The most popular magazine dedicated to – you guessed it – narrowgauge and shortline modeling and history. Many diagrams and modeling references |
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| Brilliant photos by the infamous logging photographer – DARIUS KINSEY, great for reference and inspiration |
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| Great site that details the methods of steam logging with donkeys, yarders, spar trees, etc. Great technical reference |
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