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Depoe Bay & Sitka Lumber Railroad

First, thank you to the community. When you read through this description, you’ll see this couldn’t exist without the efforts of many people.

With 14 bridges and 8 tunnels, Depoe Bay and Sitka Lumber Railroad is by far my most ambitious layout to date. The layout is based on David Dahlstrom’s N scale layout available here: http://www.scarm.info/layouts/track_plans.php?ltp=186

Performance was important when detailing. I was going to make sure my system only got down to 50 FPS, but then I added the miniature terrain. I wasn’t going to add the mini to keep performance high, but it felt odd without it, like you were floating in the clouds. If I had planned on the miniature portion in the first place the transition would have been smoother; live & learn. The mini is likely a little taller than it should be, while most of the time it interacts with the weather effects nicely, occasionally it looks odd. Regardless, performance is considerably better than my remake of the NG Logging Camp, partly due to the new grass.

If you want to know more about how to generate terrain, please see my guide and reach out if you need help: https://steamproxy.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2376794936
But fair warning it takes a lot of work. The main terrain went through 35 revisions and the miniature went through 14; that’s a lot of back and forth from Blender to RL, and I still see some spots I could have “fixed”.

New props converted for this layout that you can go use:
Waterfall, also in 2x height:
https://steamproxy.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2710147050
A barge and 2 fishing boats:
https://steamproxy.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2711372754
Fire & police station with post office:
https://steamproxy.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2711710334
Industrial buildings:
https://steamproxy.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2714368390
Box Truck:
https://steamproxy.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2716347051

Props Included:
Longs Building Pack:
https://steamproxy.com/workshop/filedetails/?id=2188745681
Midwest Houses by Microcosmologist:
https://steamproxy.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2488643707
Flatbed Trailer by [TG]Anyone999991:
https://steamproxy.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2182672355
Stop sign & support post by Ratchet the Wusky:
https://steamproxy.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2710129334
https://steamproxy.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2710190957
Forklift by [TG]Anyone999991:
https://steamproxy.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2702567707
Wooden Crate by celemts05:
https://steamproxy.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2591236197
All other props are in my personal workshop – feel free to use them to your hearts content!
https://steamproxy.com/id/phoenixseraph/myworkshopfiles/?appid=754150

Quickmods Included:
Skeleton Cars by EMDoggo:
https://steamproxy.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2557235826
Flatbed Packs by Jeri & supershinx:
https://steamproxy.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2512340586
https://steamproxy.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2512358522
Which requires 1950s Flatcar by Stationmaster: https://steamproxy.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2499854149
Cabooses by Big Ram:
https://steamproxy.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2412989740
https://steamproxy.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2410888626
Which requires offset caboose by Valkyrie Lead: https://steamproxy.com/workshop/filedetails/?id=2305839712
SW1500 29 pack by Eden & team:
https://steamproxy.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2671617901
SC44 Phase 5 by PhoenixEMP:
https://steamproxy.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2450507243
Amfleet Phase IV by Waldo Lahr:
https://steamproxy.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2447936802
PEVERIL tank engine beta by westernbranchline:
https://steamproxy.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2703119641

Livery Recommended:
AWVR No 777 & 767 by The Trainspotter from Tauranga:
https://steamproxy.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2289862529
https://steamproxy.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2289862920
American Freedom Train by HuskyDynamics:
https://steamproxy.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2708088680
https://steamproxy.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2708087479
Blue Comet by Speeder:
https://steamproxy.com/workshop/filedetails/?id=2183690185
150 Thomas by Speeder:
https://steamproxy.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2647993618
Union Pacific Challenger extended smokebox w/ tender by Speeder:
https://steamproxy.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2144290874
https://steamproxy.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2144107632
UTLX tanker rusty by Terrain Meister: https://steamproxy.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2615125560
https://steamproxy.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2615117992
https://steamproxy.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2615123386
ATSF Freightbonnet AC4400 777 by superhsinx:
https://steamproxy.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2290391688

Textures used:
https://www.sketchuptextureclub.com/textures/nature-elements/water/pool-water/pool-water-texture-seamless-13216
https://pngtree.com/freepng/realistic-landscape-white-liquid-waterfall_6243349.html


If you read this far you should know there are 4 butterflies and as of me writing this, I can’t find 2 of them. They’re around here somewhere… where did I put them? They like flowers, right?


Also, I think there is a memory leak when you load saved train state in camera mode, doing so makes my memory usage tick up every time.