New Haven's Cape Cod-The Bay Colony route, Oncoming template project |
New Haven's Cape Cod-The Bay Colony route, Oncoming template project |
Nov 19 2021, 11:17 AM
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Train Master Group: Members Posts: 1,017 Joined: 4-February 07 From: Canada Member No.: 21 |
Hello to all,
A new template project has been started a few weeks ago for the Cape Cod-the Bay Colony route, made by John Bauckman in 2004, trying to optimize its potential. I have found out that this route is semi-fictional, but very appealing to run, as told me some users of the route. Some research has been done to make it as realistic as possible while at the same time getting the most of the route. One example of the semi-fictional feature is the presence of rail ferries/barges at Hyannis and Provincetown. Woods Hole only provided rail ferry services to Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket islands. Apparently rail ferry services there terminated before the end of the steam era in the New Haven railroad network. 8 templates have been done so far: 2 for the Buzzards Bay-Woods Hole line, 2 for engine shops switching in Chatham and Hyannis while the other four are switching templates inside Buzzards Bay, Woods Hole, Hyannis and Provincetown. Small changes to the route were done, which include lengthening some sidings, renaming or creating others to accomodate some of the templates. There are close to 240 serviceable sidings for the project. The timeframe will be 1956, one year after the McGinnis paint scheme has been introduced ( in 1955). RDC's were the main motive power in that era for passenger services. The required downloads will be both New Haven BLW/ZT packs( with bonuses) as well as the Conn River Freight pack ( only the freight set zip file) and two downloads from the Trainsim site. Here are some shots taken from activities generated by AG: Open Rails 2021-11-12 02-21-40 by Denis Gionet, sur Flickr Open Rails 2021-11-12 06-45-08 by Denis Gionet, sur Flickr Open Rails 2021-11-12 07-19-54 by Denis Gionet, sur Flickr Open Rails 2021-11-12 07-32-04 by Denis Gionet, sur Flickr Open Rails 2021-11-12 08-00-28 by Denis Gionet, sur Flickr Open Rails 2021-11-12 08-29-24 by Denis Gionet, sur Flickr Open Rails 2021-11-14 04-57-20 by Denis Gionet, sur Flickr Open Rails 2021-11-17 01-16-09 by Denis Gionet, sur Flickr Open Rails 2021-11-17 10-30-18 by Denis Gionet, sur Flickr Open Rails 2021-11-18 05-34-56 by Denis Gionet, sur Flickr Will update later as more work is still to be done. -------------------- Denis Gionet
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Dec 28 2021, 12:19 PM
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Train Master Group: Members Posts: 1,017 Joined: 4-February 07 From: Canada Member No.: 21 |
Hi to all,
Just to confirm that Benny gave me the green on his side to release the template package to our users. Some final tweaks were done on my side too. Thanks again Benny for your help with testing! As usual, you can write me at the usual address to request the package. Once again here's the e-mail address: photoman_57(at)hotmail(dot)ca Here's the template image of the project Cape Cod 2 (2021) Template image by Denis Gionet, sur Flickr Enjoy the package and Happy trainsimming! -------------------- Denis Gionet
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