Welcome to my site, mostly containing artwork made for a rail simulator known as Trainz, an Australian product.
You may find artwork/content and source files for other Train Simulators, such as Railworks. You are welcome to look and modify content you like, you also may use any content on this site set out in the copyright statement (which also lists terms and conditions).
If you see anything you like and would like the source files which aren’t available, please send a message and let me know.
If you wish to, you are more than welcome to leave a donation, the button is on the navigation bar to the left.
Alternatively, you are more than welcome to look at my personal blog detailing my personal struggles with mostly ASD (bit of an explanation, but it’s in About Me)
You also welcome to look at current work in progress content by looking at my work in progress blog which gives an idea of the ongoing development of items I am working on. If you are lost, the navigation bar on the left (desktop/tablet) or “hamburger bar” (top right on mobile) should help you get where you need. Plus the social media and the donate button is on the bar to the left as of current, so you avoid that.
Latest posts:
- “Trust your instincts” I was taught.How many times do you hear “if you see something not quite right, contact the BTP on the text number, see it, say it, sorted”. I travel on the railways a lot and I have an eye for detail which does have some advantages, because you get to know what’s right and what is wrong. Plus I interact with the rail staff and occasionally, passengers. When you travel on the same line, day in, day out, thousands of times, you get a feel for things that don’t look right. Today, I came across that problem.… Read more: “Trust your instincts” I was taught.
- Knocking my site off line, Part 2 – It’s Back!!
God, 2 weeks have been a real problem for this site! You may of noticed, I ‘ve had a lot of problems with this site, from Internal Server 500 errors (caused by running out of memory, not storage or bandwidth) to actually disappearing all together! I’ll explain. I’m probably the oldest client on Cadence networks, this site is probably the oldest on their server and unfortunately, servers do have a limit to how long they can run before they give up. Thats the spoiler alert. So what happened? Simple, it got old, but to get… Read more: Knocking my site off line, Part 2 – It’s Back!! - Did you know? (Trainz)
That the Trainz forum is now 25 years old today? They went live on the 01/08/2000 to promote what was Trainz Community Edition. I joined the forums on the 14/08/2000 looking for a train simulator that was more engaging than what I was using, that’s when I discovered after many hours of trawling through search engines (I can’t remember which one I used, Yahoo maybe? Google wasn’t on the horizon). For those in Trainz, if you noticed, my KUID author number (Koolthingz Unique IDentification) is actually a very low 30051. Yep, that low. Auran as… Read more: Did you know? (Trainz) - Mini PC’s are fun!
Even better in an environment that bans computers. Understablable for safety but sometimes? I came across this YouTube clip: Not mine I have to say, but, I looked at it and I thought “Hold my Pepsi one minute, there’s smaller still!”I don’t own a GPD Pocket PC sadly, I’ve always wanted one but never had the cash to buy one new or used. The Pocket 3 or 4 is on my wish list, but still. I owned a OQO Model 01 (which is 5.5″, that was tiny and slow!), I still own a OQO model… Read more: Mini PC’s are fun! - Knocking my site offline.It wasn’t deliberate, honest! Firstly, its been a difficult 24 hours for me, because of this site, I knocked it off unintentionally and it wasn’t because I was doing anything I thought was stupid, but 123-Reg, my domain company has what is suppose to be “Award Winning Customer Service”. Yeah, throw that out of the site for one minute because I want to jump ship! Added a subdomain, easy task right? Wrong! Adding it wiped my entire DNS records. Yikes! It gets much better, I had to repopulate those from scratch, I had about 5… Read more: Knocking my site offline.
- This joined me on the train.I do like taking photos of interesting “things”, so this was one of them. Saw this lovely insect flying around the carriage and I had to take a photo of it then stick it on Instagram. With a load of staff (I just happened to be with) and passengers going “What the hell are you taking a photo of?”, even the guard who I was talking to as they nearly get attacked by it, was questioning it, until I took it and turned the phone around. This was South Western Railway’s service 07:20 Portsmouth to… Read more: This joined me on the train.
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