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

[dgionet]

Hello to all,

It has been a while since the last post and am still waiting for news from Teemu about development of the route. Having no idea about when the route will be released, I have decided last week to start working in building the template with the latest version (831), knowing I may have to start it again if the route database had been subject to changes, thus rendering some of the markers invalid. That will be seen later. Even if this happens, experience gathered from the current construction will make things faster. I have gathered enough knowledge about the route network to push ahead.The first priority is to find out, as mentioned earlier, if the ACT file will be able to hold all markers and up to 300 pieces of rolling stock.

I have started with the NIAJ to create the very first template and concentrate the markers throughout the entire Niagara region (CDN and US). I have put close to 200 markers, 15 regions and created one path from the NIAJ yards to the Niagara industrial region South.

BTW, I would like to thank Tim Muir, the builder of the NIAJ electric engines (seen here), who has agreed to allow me to include his package with the oncoming template. Also you can see Rick's mega pack here and looks great. Great work Rick! Your work will not go here unnoticed with this template project.

One question here with the first picture: did the NIAJ electric engines actually ventured in the NIAJ yards or was it limited at the Foote yards and South? Your help will be appreciatd.

Here are the very first template shots of the Buffalo here at the NIAJ and at the Foote Yards and the results overall are very satisfactory.





Although the FPS on the shots are about 5, this won't be the case once the packages are refined to keep only the regions necessary to use the respective templates. FPS should be a lot higher once done.


From the current files, I have used them to create a second template, for the PC which covers from Niagara to the PC Frontier yard. From the NIAJ files, I have continued to add more markers and regions. I have done the same with the EL, the LV and am currently working one for the N&W. I am installing only one path for each template to test the package.

So far, I have installed close to 550 markers and set 50 regions with their respective names, that is about halfway through the database.

Once the PC and EL have been done, I have set a traffic train and tested the crossover of both raillines at Walmore and has been satisfied of the result of a meet of both railroads.

Here's the result of the meet.





I did not take many shots here, trying to concentrate on the complex work of editing many files and working with the AE to make this possible. Hope to come with some additional pictures later.

Will continue building the rest of the markers and hope to be able to deliver what has been hoped.

Will update later.