Welcome to the Carson Car Shops
Specializing in creating content for
N3V's Trainz Railroad Simulator; focusing primarily on Old West content in
general, and the Virginia & Truckee Railroad in specific.
News:
February 24th 2025
Completed a model of the Standard Oil of California shed and pump house in Minden, as well as some repaints for other oil companies.
February 11th 2025
Uploaded a model of the iron breaking tower in Carson City, two models of an early 'auto camp' (motel) in Minden, an update to my 1918 Dodge truck models, and several commercial buildings in Minden.
Also uploaded last year's presentation - a redo of the history of the Virginia City yards as well as converting the other presentations to .pdf for easier browser viewing.
January 12th, 2025
I found and fixed a script initialization issue while working on animated couplers, and so took a quick break from the couplers and updated the stub switch and switch stand assets. These should set to the correct default once placed now.
December 24th, 2024
Uploaded several more 24' flat car variants - a 1902+ version, a tunnel car conversion, and a salt car conversion.
December 9th, 2024
Uploaded a variety of small structures - a weathered version of the single ore dump, V&T Construction car No. 6 (grounded) - as it was during the final years of the V&T.
Also, 3x versions of the V&T bunk house in Mound House, and a model of a small rustic foot bridge.
December 1st, 2024
Uploaded updates to the turn-of-the-century flat cars and gondolas, as well as the last of the pre-1900 variants of the 24' flat cars. Some 1902+ versions and variants are in progress.
Also, I finally finished teh model of the the McKeen motorcar shed in Carson City.
November 7th, 2024
Uploaded several roundhouse and turntable variants; as well as a couple of early V&T cabooses.
Also updated this website to remove reliance on old Microsoft Expressions Web extensions (since that product was discontinued almost 12 years ago.....)
October 30th, 2024
Uploaded stub switches in several ballast colors.
October 17th, 2024
Uploaded updates of some cabins and miscellaneous Virginia City yard structures, including a couple versions
of
the first car shops.
August 21st, 2024
Working on redoing many of the Virginia City yard buildings, as well as a new set of stub switches. I'm
shooting
for completion and upload sometime in October.
July 30th, 2024
Uploaded several versions of a barn (based on a photo in the early 1900s in Mound House, NV).
May 18th, 2024
Uploaded a stack of cordwood, and a simple warehouse (based on a structure in Minden, NV).