The Railway Assets package contains various models, materials and geometry nodes useful for building railway locomotives and scenes. All models are created with reference to the original engineering drawings, through detailed research and study or both. They are highly accurate.

2024-11-26 Update

• Snow material added

2024-11-05 Update

• Wheel set for LMS Princess Coronation class pacific.

2024-10-28 Update

• First wheel set added: LNER A1/3/4 bogie, drivers and pony wheels.
• Update to metal material.

2024-10-18 Update

• Additional steam vdb files added.

2024-10-12 Update

• First steam vdb and steam material available.

2024-10-06 Update

• Simple, early in development materials have been added to most models.
• Improvements to the ballast material.
• New models for a barrel, fireman's shovel and non-mechanical lubricator.

2024-09-23 Update

• New option to construct railway without sleepers - a common scenario for engine sheds and other work areas.
• More control over ballast through exposure of a scale parameter - useful for creating materials like ash and smaller ballast stones.

2024-08-28 Update

• Added a basic straight switch (turnout).
• All chairs required to build additional turnouts included as assets.
• Improved materials.
• Updated sleeper spacing to correctly provide half-width gap and beginning and end of track.
• Added switch to track geometry nodes to turn off scattering in viewport - enabling better performance for large scenes.

2024-08-17 Update

• Improved category organization of assets.
• Addition of concrete sleepers (ties) and e-clip fasteners to track generator (including a menu for 'steam era' or 'modern era').
• Some additional models, including a draw hook and some basic fasteners.

2024-08-03 Update

• Improved wood material for sleepers.
• Addition of grass scattering between sleepers.
• Addition of leaves scattering on sleepers.

The initial version includes 2 .blend files.

railwayassets.blend:

• Geometry nodes driven track generation including accurate rail chairs, wooden sleepers (ties) all with procedural materials.
• Procedural ballast material using adaptive displacement.
• A buffer stop model (mesh only).
• LNER lamp model (mesh only).
• Wakefield No. 7 mechanical lubricator (mesh only).

railwayassets-screwcouplings.blend:

• Various screw couplings (mesh only).