MSTS Route--Rocky Mountain Div. East Options

[dgionet]

Hello to all,

Lukas Lusser and his contributors have released today the above route, which is actually the RMD-1 and RMD-2 combined and updated, that is from Harlowton to Deer Lodge. He has also released railstock to go along with the route. I am downloading the route as I write to find out if it is suitable for a template. I believe it will be, since the latest route of the Milwaukee series, the RMD-1 had the sidings marked.

Work is also done on the rest of the route from Deer Lodge to Avery in the future.Not sure when but will be interesting to follow its progress which can be seen inthe TS forum.

Will update later for the results of the present download.

[dgionet]

Hello to all,

I have just finished tonight the template package for the RMD_East route. Here are some of the details: 7 templates, EB and WB for each the MILW, NP and the BA&P and the YARDS templates which includes yard work inside Harlowton, Three Forks, Butte, Deer Lodge, Silver Bow (NP) Anaconda (BA&P) and Butte Hill (BA&P). A total of 138 sidings will be serviceable throughout all lines.

For the YARDS Template, the default player train is the MILW ES-2 electric switcher.If you intend to work inside the other RR’s , simply change the engines in AG to the ones used in the other RR’s. It’s a lot simpler than creating additional player consists and storing them in a different folder.

The traffic patterns for the EB and WB Templates apply for all three RR’s in each direction. The YARDS template has its own traffic pattern.

There are 28 consist files, 45 different paths and 52 service files and probably as many traffic trains throughout all templates. Trains on each railroad have about a 2-hour interval to allow work within a reasonable time. However expect shorter delays in crossing other trains since between Lombard and Deer Lodge, lines run parallel and in the Silver Bow canyon, all three lines run along the narrowed area.

Time of departure for the player trains have been set based on actual departure times in the late 50’s for the North Coast Limited (NP) and the Hiawatha (MILW) passenger trains, they are set for 7h30 for the WB and 13h30 for the EB.

Benny (bennycdn) has started testing the WB template last week and I thank him for his assistance, I will be sending him the remaining pack to test. I will start doing the same as well.

I am including some shots taken so far. Lots of work ahead.

Will update later