WIP Roadtrain

[den]

Added lights, logo and roo-bar. It's not a real roadtrain without a roobar.

Comments

[red-pen-theory.livejournal.com]

why dont they just use real trains

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

No tracks on the outback.

Actually, there are tracks but they're called "highways".

[red-pen-theory.livejournal.com]

that's the market's way of saying "do not live here"

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

True. I've always wondered why Darwin exists.

[hedgegoth.livejournal.com]

Ironic name

[dhlawrence.livejournal.com]

Actually there are tracks, but just one. And it only goes north in one direction or west in one direction XD

[mactavish.livejournal.com]

We haven't got road trains in California, we don't have as many long straight stretches. (Interstate 5 could handle them, though.)

[athelind.livejournal.com]

What he said.

[athelind.livejournal.com]

Gaaaah. The regular two-trailer 18-wheelers tear up the highways enough.

And we've got perfectly good rails running up and down the length of the state.

[mactavish.livejournal.com]

I said "could," not "should". :) And yes, I've spent the past 5 years living between sets of rails so that I get freight trains within a half a mile of me much of the day. I don't mind them much.

[ngarewyrd.livejournal.com]

considering that the track you're thinking of was only completed about, two years ago? yeah, Road Trains do have a purpose =8)

[dhlawrence.livejournal.com]

That's one of the tracks I was thinking of. I was also thinking of the ones in the south, completed in 1969 XD

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

I was in Darwin when the first train arrived. That was last year.

[dhlawrence.livejournal.com]

Was talking about the Perth line--that was '69.

Great Stuff!

[kelloggs2066.livejournal.com]

If they were pointy, would they be Roo-Barbs?

Re: Great Stuff!

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

'twas one of the first renders I ever did, back when Moray and POVRay were DOS-based, and 486s and Win3.11 were the latest tech.


about 1993ish.

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

Dad took me down to Central Station in Sydney to watch the first Indian Pacific train leave for Perth. It was the longest passenger train I had ever seen.

Wow. I've seen the first train to start crossing the continent from East to West, and the first to arrive from South to North. And never been on eather of them.

[lostwanderfound.livejournal.com]

Telegraph station, basically.

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

Same with Alice Springs. There was not a lot there before the telegraph. It's only been in the last 40 years there have been more than 10,000 people there.

[dhlawrence.livejournal.com]

What interests me is that Australia was inaugurating their transcontinental train at the same time that America, etc were taking theirs out of service.

Wish I could travel on the IP and Ghan. Some day...

[elektron.livejournal.com]

Is it really such a good idea to send kangaroos under the wheels? (Or do the kangaroos magically go off to the side?)

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

The roobar is to stop the animal from damaging the truck. Roos and emus leave little red arrow-shaped marks on the road after a roadtrain has his them. Going under isn't a problem.