BLS_2010 and Bern Hbf Routes
Posted: Tue Feb 01, 2011 6:57 am
Finally after a bit of a struggle of the problems I had with the BLS_2010 route, I finally have it up an running and it is very nice.
The activities are also good but I have done some tinkering with both the consists and the timing to give the trains more of a look of when I saw them in the 1980's rather than all the modern things used in the activities. the NEWEST cars at that time were the SBB and BLS Ew-IV class cars in just coaches and Restaurant cars. Too bad somebody doesn't make the Swiss Express Ew-III cars since they were still on InterCity trains back then.
I have altered the timings of some of the AI trains to get better passing locations and things really look great now after all the effort and problems I cranked about.
I got brave and tried loading the new Bern Hbf route, and after the usual RouteRiter fixing iof missing fales, that also ran great, and likewise I altered the consist to back date them. The timings work well enough as it is since it is a small route.
I was a bit disappointed by Bern Hbf as I expected it to be the rest of the BLS route from Thun to Bern
I do have a few pointers for Garry Peacock.
1) Where is the "famous" Bietschtal bridge ??? Since it is a unique design, it appears to be missing from the route
2) All of the activities need a "Location Event" which terminates the train and successfully ends the senario. Either you drive off the end of the tile when the tyrack ends (the activity fails as derailed) or you stop short of the track end and the activity "stalls" because it thinks you didn't complete it. I added a Location Event to the Valley Express activity inside the Simplon Tunnel jjust after the curve and now it ends correctly with a complete evaluation.
3) Hopefully Garry will make BLS_2011 complete all the way to Bern and include the SEZ to Interlaken and Zweisimmen and the GBS branch to Schwarzenburg.
But again a really good route for all the effort and having the Eisenbahn Kurier Special #10 book "75 Jahre BLS Die grosse Alpenbahn" also helps with route pictures and train consists from that era.
Doug
The activities are also good but I have done some tinkering with both the consists and the timing to give the trains more of a look of when I saw them in the 1980's rather than all the modern things used in the activities. the NEWEST cars at that time were the SBB and BLS Ew-IV class cars in just coaches and Restaurant cars. Too bad somebody doesn't make the Swiss Express Ew-III cars since they were still on InterCity trains back then.
I have altered the timings of some of the AI trains to get better passing locations and things really look great now after all the effort and problems I cranked about.
I got brave and tried loading the new Bern Hbf route, and after the usual RouteRiter fixing iof missing fales, that also ran great, and likewise I altered the consist to back date them. The timings work well enough as it is since it is a small route.
I was a bit disappointed by Bern Hbf as I expected it to be the rest of the BLS route from Thun to Bern
I do have a few pointers for Garry Peacock.
1) Where is the "famous" Bietschtal bridge ??? Since it is a unique design, it appears to be missing from the route
2) All of the activities need a "Location Event" which terminates the train and successfully ends the senario. Either you drive off the end of the tile when the tyrack ends (the activity fails as derailed) or you stop short of the track end and the activity "stalls" because it thinks you didn't complete it. I added a Location Event to the Valley Express activity inside the Simplon Tunnel jjust after the curve and now it ends correctly with a complete evaluation.
3) Hopefully Garry will make BLS_2011 complete all the way to Bern and include the SEZ to Interlaken and Zweisimmen and the GBS branch to Schwarzenburg.
But again a really good route for all the effort and having the Eisenbahn Kurier Special #10 book "75 Jahre BLS Die grosse Alpenbahn" also helps with route pictures and train consists from that era.
Doug