{"id":596,"date":"2016-09-19T14:00:46","date_gmt":"2016-09-19T18:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/train.xeldom.net\/?p=596"},"modified":"2018-09-03T21:14:18","modified_gmt":"2018-09-04T01:14:18","slug":"making-tracks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/train.xeldom.net\/?p=596","title":{"rendered":"Making Tracks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One thing I&#8217;ve always wanted, but have never been able to have, is a rail system just as widespread and heavy as the American system, but with a wider gauge. Russian railways employ a gauge of about five feet instead of the standard 4 feet, 8.5 inches; India can run double-stacked containers on flatcars on their 5 foot 6 inch &#8211; gauge track. But neither of these I find to be quite right. While Indian practice is interesting, I felt their gauge to be just slightly <em>too <\/em>wide, while Russia&#8217;s doesn&#8217;t go far enough. So I&#8217;ve adopted the Irish gauge of 5 feet and 3 inches, and I&#8217;ve just made some track to that gauge in Blender. Once I texture these rails, Dertinia will finally have the track she deserves.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/train.xeldom.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/DNR_Track2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-597\" src=\"http:\/\/train.xeldom.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/DNR_Track2.png\" alt=\"DNR_Track2\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" srcset=\"https:\/\/train.xeldom.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/DNR_Track2.png 960w, https:\/\/train.xeldom.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/DNR_Track2-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/train.xeldom.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/DNR_Track2-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/train.xeldom.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/DNR_Track2-500x281.png 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Looking down the rails:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/train.xeldom.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/DNR_Track1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-598\" src=\"http:\/\/train.xeldom.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/DNR_Track1.png\" alt=\"DNR_Track1\" width=\"584\" height=\"329\" srcset=\"https:\/\/train.xeldom.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/DNR_Track1.png 960w, https:\/\/train.xeldom.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/DNR_Track1-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/train.xeldom.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/DNR_Track1-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/train.xeldom.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/DNR_Track1-500x281.png 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On the shining trails of tomorrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One thing I&#8217;ve always wanted, but have never been able to have, is a rail system just as widespread and heavy as the American system, but with a wider gauge. Russian railways employ a gauge of about five feet instead of the standard 4 feet, 8.5 inches; India can run double-stacked containers on flatcars on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/train.xeldom.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/train.xeldom.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/train.xeldom.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/train.xeldom.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/train.xeldom.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=596"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/train.xeldom.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":612,"href":"https:\/\/train.xeldom.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596\/revisions\/612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/train.xeldom.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/train.xeldom.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/train.xeldom.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}