Compromises For Long Routes

[jbilton]

Hi
Probably known about but this route looks long .... http://www.train-sim.com

Name: ecml_for_railworks.zip Size: 330,879,602 Date: 04-14-2010 Downloads: 154
RailWorks Doncaster Area Route v1, from Kings Cross to York ECML, 188 miles. Still a work in progress.



Cheers
Jon

[Darpor]

Sort of sums up the discussion within the thread Jon, miles and miles of track with little or nothing in between. There lies the problem, laying track is easy (although some would stipulate it to be hard) but to then scenerise it takes the time, at least to the standard people seem to expect. Not saying this project is impossible but I expect to see it in stages and not at a huge rate of pace.

[alanch]

Hi
Probably known about but this route looks long .... http://www.train-sim.com

Name: ecml_for_railworks.zip Size: 330,879,602 Date: 04-14-2010 Downloads: 154
RailWorks Doncaster Area Route v1, from Kings Cross to York ECML, 188 miles. Still a work in progress.

Cheers
Jon

Hi John

The home site for this route is http://www.railworksdepot.co.uk/ - However, I've had trouble getting it to run, and have had to delete it until a newer version emerges.

[bigvern]

The ECML route in TS2010 actually goes one step further than Mid-East - running from KGX to York (scale length) and numerous branches and offshoots too. However it is evidently a huge labour of love, undertaken by several builders over a period of years but with the emphasis on detail that can be seen from the cab or passenger view, not from following the train at 500 feet. Of course, Trainz also makes it easier to join several independently constructed sections into a coherent whole.

[jbilton]

The ECML route in TS2010 actually goes one step further than Mid-East - running from KGX to York (scale length) and numerous branches and offshoots too. However it is evidently a huge labour of love, undertaken by several builders over a period of years but with the emphasis on detail that can be seen from the cab or passenger view, not from following the train at 500 feet. Of course, Trainz also makes it easier to join several independently constructed sections into a coherent whole.

Hi
Maybe its the one done by the Deltic Preservation Society ?
They have one you can actually drive from the cab of 55008.

http://www.thedps.co.uk/staticpages/ind ... inzecmlupd

Cheers
Jon

[haddock1000]

Just a quick thought... Would it be possible to build a world of rails for RWs? I.E.:

-Download all the DEM
-Set up a route
-Get a bot (the things that press keyboard buttons for you) to go over the whole world pressing 't'
-Get RWDecal to Decal the whole world (may need a bot here as well)
-Somehow obtain the railway data on GE and code a program to convert that to the node xml files in RWs (but how do we do variations in gradients?)

Then all the user needs to do is to find the tiles that he wants, and then delete the rest, we could create and index to make this easier.

just a thought,

chaddockdk