Buffalo Route Options

[xpdingo]

I started this template about a year ago and then stopped it when Teemu told me he was going to extend it to Niagara Falls. Teemu sent me the new Buffalo route yesterday and I will work it along side the PRR Eastern. The Buffalo route is only about 60 miles long but it has almost 1300 sidings. It is a huge industrial switching route with 8 Railroads involved.

Teemu has done a great job on this route.

Pete

[smokeytc]

Hi Guys - any further info on the Buffalo Route. Any idea when it will be released with template?? I love switching and am looking forward to this one.
Ted

[xpdingo]

Hi Guys - any further info on the Buffalo Route. Any idea when it will be released with template?? I love switching and am looking forward to this one.
Ted

Good news on the Buffalo route. When I spoke to Teemu he was testing the route before release. Craig's Buffalo map will be released at the same time. This map is about intense as a map can be.

THANKS CRAIG

Now the real good news, Rick Franzosa has been working on a engine and rolling stock set made just for this route. The set will include 36 to 48 engines for the 8 railroads in the route. It will also include 172 pieces of rolling stock. It contains road names not available anywhere else. The set will be available at http://www.valleypass.com/ when released. Rick has done an outstanding job on this set.

THANKS RICK

The "Buffalo Set" will be used in the template to be released here.

Pete

[Train-a-Mania]

I know that Denis has taken over working on the template for Pete, but what is the latest news about the route?

[dgionet]

I know that Denis has taken over working on the template for Pete, but what is the latest news about the route?

Hi Nick,

To the latest news with Pete about a week ago, Teemu, the route builder is still beta testing the route. No change since the day I have received the route about two weeks ago. In the meantime Rick (from Zoza trains) is progressing with the Buffalo mega pack and is getting closer to completing the mega-stock. Once ready, it will be available at the BLW/ZT website.

On my side, since the transfer, while working on the Dominion Atlantic Template, I have been studying the route, trying to locate the trackage for each of the multiple railroads that are part of this mega route. That will be a major issue during construction. I have received Craig's most recent version of the Buffalo map and studying it. I am doing some exploration as well with the paths already present with the Beta version of the route. It will definitely will become my biggest project ever. Lots of work ahead.

For those who doesn't know, the future template will require Rick's mega pack as it was built to go with the Buffalo route. It has been made with the route in mind. There will be some additional downloads and am currently selecting what will complete the download package. I am trying to keep the downloads as low as possible but here it be probably larger compared with my earlier templates. Not an easy task ahead.

The first phase will be installing the markers on this route. in 2007, if some of you remember, I have reached a limit of markers on the Burton-Derby (BD) route and my ACT file wouldn'l load. I could put only 765 markers while the route had 890 serviceable sidings. I have reloaded the BD route and template 10 days ago to test this issue and was able to add up the remaining markers to complete the total number .

That means this seem not to be a MSTS limit but the PC used. At the time I had a 2GHz Pentium 4. Today I have a dual-core and will try to push the limit evenmore to find out if I could install all the markers in one ACT file. That would ease greatly things, Time will tell if I succeed.

I have finished the Dominion Atlantic Template and will move full steam ahead on this one.

So that's it for the time being and will update later with more developments.