Maine Central

Complete Maine Central route running Northeast from Portland to Skowhegan and Northwest to Berlin, NH - all mainline double track- About 30 interactive Sp2 passenger stations - many custom industries using both TRS and LARS Systems - now contains about all of its trackage in the 1960s era, Now including trackage contained within the central part of the state of Maine running up to Rumford/Jay Area to International Paper Co, one of it largest customers. Route is well over 200 baseboards in size and requires a decent sized computer to handle graphics. - Many new inter-related industries - an example is Dover Lumber company is a shrink wrap facility that wraps raw lumber from lumber mills that is then transported to a transfer facility in Berlin, NH for the long trip to points west. Others include Coastal Chemicals that provide sulfuric acid to paper industries; Complete Dairy handling facilities, etc. basically a double track double dog-bone route with many sidings with custom industries. For example - do the doughnut run (see the September issue of Virtual Railroader (feature story found at http://www.virtualrailroader.com/index.html ) - carry wheat to grist mill, pick up flour, carry flour to bakery, pick up general goods at bakery carry to distribution center to over the road semis - total miles about 70 and time involved 1.5 hours actual. New Additions: Forest fire in Central Maine Area caused by a hotbox; Many Maine unique industries such as B&M Beans, and Beach Cliff Sardines.

The route carries you through about 30 major towns and cities of Maine, with the typical flavor of the area, the islands on the coast to the northern reaches of Maine and New Hampshire. All passenger stations are SP2 interactive. All industries have interactive trackage either TRS Standard or LARS depending on product needs.

The setting of the Map -

Time and date: 10:00 AM Nov 19, 1965 - Thursday. Today's Weather: expect rain, drizzle and fog in upper elevations; with a chance of light snow in higher elevations of western mountains. High temp today is 42 F, with cloudy to partly cloudy skies - typical late November Maine Morning.

NZR (New Zealand Rail) Johnsonville Line

ABOUT THIS ROUTE

This route-build is a simulation of the prototypical-electrified route from New Zealand’s capital city, Wellington to Tawa. The old section from Wellington to Johnsonville was once a part of the North Island Main Trunk, until 1938, when the new Tawa deviation was opened. The old section of line between Johnsonville and Tawa was removed shortly after the Tawa deviation opening, but the Wellington to Johnsonville section was retained to service the west suburbs. I have included both the old and present day routes with this simulation.

REQUIREMENTS

This route build requires Trainz 2006 with SP1 installed. (If you get a loading up error “cannot find map”, then you don’t have SP1 installed.)
This route is only small (approx 100 boards) but is quite well detailed, particularly in the Wellington station/yards area, so will require a good mid-high spec. computer to run smoothly.
Requires payware item “Nature series 1” available here ( as used in both the MURCHISON LOGGING and the MURCHISON STAGE 2 layouts)

I have endeavoured to build this route using assets which I have on my computer and only used the DLS when absolutely necessary. Those assets are in: Trainz 2006 default, Murchison stage 2 and Trainz Routes Volume 1 & 2.

From the DLS :

Trackside weeds/grass

shrubs/grass

Helicopter lift table by Vulcan

Invisible track green 

Invisible track red

I recommend a visit to Vulcan’s site  http://www.ianztrainz.com.au/project6.htm for more information and instructions on the use of his helicopters and the lift table.

Aside from the above, you will require all my own creations, available as freeware by clicking on the links below

My creations:

You will need to download the new region plus these vehicles:

The classic vehicles :

English electric D-DM units in refurbished red and the blue and silver livery as first introduced into Wellington in 1938. I built these models originally for MSTS and converted them to run in Trainz .They are basic at this stage and are non-passenger functional. However, they do look the part in this route. On the plus,side they are low in polys : a 6 x car set is less than 20k., so 2 or 3 AI trains will not load down the route very much at all. ( some other loco’s alone are more than 20k.) I have set the cabin sway to 10 as these trains do tend to rock and roll a bit. While in cab view ( button 1 ) there are HOW and tracking views by pressing the { & } keys. They are usually connected in multiples, i.e. DM with pantograph and D trailer back to back with headlights facing away from each other. This makes one set. To make a longer train, they are connected as two or three sets, i.e. a 4 x car or 6 x car multiple set.

These static models are very low poly and can be placed in yards, etc. to offer a more realistic look.
 

SESSIONS

I have created 4 x simple sessions to demonstrate this route:
These sessions are simplified and I recommend you drive the vehicles manually. Do not issue “drive to” commands.

INSTALLATION

To install the route and accessories cdp files:

Now here is your ticket to ride !

ENJOY !!!