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 2nd 2025

Uploaded a model of the iron breaking tower in Carson City, a couple models of an early 'auto camp' (motel) in Minden, an update to my 1918 Dodge truck models, and a couple commercial building in Minden. Also uploaded last year's presentation - a redo of the history of the Virginia City yards and converted the other presentations to .pdf, for easier browser viewing.

December 10th, 2024

Updated some turn-of-the-century flat cars and gondolas, and uploaded several more 24' V&T flat cars, a model of the McKeen motorcar shed in Carson City, 3x versions of the V&T bunk house in Mound House, and a rustic foot bridge model.

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).

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December 6th, 2023

A bunch of houses (and a couple other miscellaneous buildings) are now on the DLS. Will upload more as time permits....

October 15th, 2023

Now that this year's V&T Conference is over, I've uploaded this years presentation to the Presentations page. Expect various models built for this presentation to make their way to the DLS over the next several months as I clean them up for actual use.