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Skyline User's Forum _ Templates _ New Haven's Cape Cod-The Bay Colony route

Posted by: dgionet Nov 19 2021, 11:17 AM

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:


https://flic.kr/p/2mKN5EShttps://flic.kr/p/2mKN5ES by https://www.flickr.com/photos/150924424@N08/, sur Flickr

https://flic.kr/p/2mKEwCnhttps://flic.kr/p/2mKEwCn by https://www.flickr.com/photos/150924424@N08/, sur Flickr

https://flic.kr/p/2mKPaoJhttps://flic.kr/p/2mKPaoJ by https://www.flickr.com/photos/150924424@N08/, sur Flickr

https://flic.kr/p/2mKN5Eghttps://flic.kr/p/2mKN5Eg by https://www.flickr.com/photos/150924424@N08/, sur Flickr

https://flic.kr/p/2mKJARUhttps://flic.kr/p/2mKJARU by https://www.flickr.com/photos/150924424@N08/, sur Flickr

https://flic.kr/p/2mKN5DQhttps://flic.kr/p/2mKN5DQ by https://www.flickr.com/photos/150924424@N08/, sur Flickr

https://flic.kr/p/2mKN5Duhttps://flic.kr/p/2mKN5Du by https://www.flickr.com/photos/150924424@N08/, sur Flickr

https://flic.kr/p/2mKPanBhttps://flic.kr/p/2mKPanB by https://www.flickr.com/photos/150924424@N08/, sur Flickr

https://flic.kr/p/2mKN5D9https://flic.kr/p/2mKN5D9 by https://www.flickr.com/photos/150924424@N08/, sur Flickr

https://flic.kr/p/2mKEwAyhttps://flic.kr/p/2mKEwAy by https://www.flickr.com/photos/150924424@N08/, sur Flickr

Will update later as more work is still to be done.

Posted by: dgionet Dec 10 2021, 08:15 PM

Hi to all,

Work is now completed on this project. The number of templates has reached 16! Other than the ones mentioned above, some local templates between Buzzards Bay, Hyannis and the Provincetown Corridor. Switching templates inside the Wellfleet area, extras working in some specific denser areas, such as in Sandwich, North Eastham, Orleans and South Wellfleet. Also some templates which switches cars with the Barges and Ferries of Hyannis and Woods Hole.

Craig Kawahara's map of the route, released some years ago, has been updated with the changes done to the track database which made these extra templates possible. It will be included with the package. Testing has started while Benny is doing the same for a while with the first templates sent to him.

Here are twenty shots of activities generated by AG. Enjoy the shots!

https://flic.kr/p/2mPXZ4whttps://flic.kr/p/2mPXZ4w by https://www.flickr.com/photos/150924424@N08/, sur Flickr

https://flic.kr/p/2mPSxPxhttps://flic.kr/p/2mPSxPx by https://www.flickr.com/photos/150924424@N08/, sur Flickr

https://flic.kr/p/2mQ2ji4https://flic.kr/p/2mQ2ji4 by https://www.flickr.com/photos/150924424@N08/, sur Flickr

https://flic.kr/p/2mPWL55https://flic.kr/p/2mPWL55 by https://www.flickr.com/photos/150924424@N08/, sur Flickr

https://flic.kr/p/2mPXZ3uhttps://flic.kr/p/2mPXZ3u by https://www.flickr.com/photos/150924424@N08/, sur Flickr

https://flic.kr/p/2mQ2jhnhttps://flic.kr/p/2mQ2jhn by https://www.flickr.com/photos/150924424@N08/, sur Flickr

https://flic.kr/p/2mPXZ39https://flic.kr/p/2mPXZ39 by https://www.flickr.com/photos/150924424@N08/, sur Flickr

https://flic.kr/p/2mPWL43https://flic.kr/p/2mPWL43 by https://www.flickr.com/photos/150924424@N08/, sur Flickr

https://flic.kr/p/2mPWL3Xhttps://flic.kr/p/2mPWL3X by https://www.flickr.com/photos/150924424@N08/, sur Flickr

https://flic.kr/p/2mPSxN5https://flic.kr/p/2mPSxN5 by https://www.flickr.com/photos/150924424@N08/, sur Flickr

The remaining images on the next post

Posted by: dgionet Dec 10 2021, 08:16 PM

https://flic.kr/p/2mPWL3Mhttps://flic.kr/p/2mPWL3M by https://www.flickr.com/photos/150924424@N08/, sur Flickr

https://flic.kr/p/2mPSxMyhttps://flic.kr/p/2mPSxMy by https://www.flickr.com/photos/150924424@N08/, sur Flickr

https://flic.kr/p/2mQ13Jjhttps://flic.kr/p/2mQ13Jj by https://www.flickr.com/photos/150924424@N08/, sur Flickr

https://flic.kr/p/2mQ13HThttps://flic.kr/p/2mQ13HT by https://www.flickr.com/photos/150924424@N08/, sur Flickr

https://flic.kr/p/2mPSxM3https://flic.kr/p/2mPSxM3 by https://www.flickr.com/photos/150924424@N08/, sur Flickr

https://flic.kr/p/2mQ2jg5https://flic.kr/p/2mQ2jg5 by https://www.flickr.com/photos/150924424@N08/, sur Flickr

https://flic.kr/p/2mPXZ1Whttps://flic.kr/p/2mPXZ1W by https://www.flickr.com/photos/150924424@N08/, sur Flickr

https://flic.kr/p/2mPXZ1Lhttps://flic.kr/p/2mPXZ1L by https://www.flickr.com/photos/150924424@N08/, sur Flickr

https://flic.kr/p/2mQ13Hhhttps://flic.kr/p/2mQ13Hh by https://www.flickr.com/photos/150924424@N08/, sur Flickr

https://flic.kr/p/2mPXZ1vhttps://flic.kr/p/2mPXZ1v by https://www.flickr.com/photos/150924424@N08/, sur Flickr

More later.

Posted by: Conductor Chris Dec 11 2021, 06:58 PM

I will sure be looking forward to this. I'm fond of this route. Thank you.
Christopher

Posted by: dgionet Dec 25 2021, 03:38 PM

Hi to all,

Testing is continuing and some tweaking is done on some templates.

Its release is expected to be around early next month.

In the meantime, here are some shots from different templates.

https://flic.kr/p/2mTeJ85https://flic.kr/p/2mTeJ85 by https://www.flickr.com/photos/150924424@N08/, sur Flickr

https://flic.kr/p/2mTeJ7Uhttps://flic.kr/p/2mTeJ7U by https://www.flickr.com/photos/150924424@N08/, sur Flickr

https://flic.kr/p/2mTbrE3https://flic.kr/p/2mTbrE3 by https://www.flickr.com/photos/150924424@N08/, sur Flickr

https://flic.kr/p/2mTbrDXhttps://flic.kr/p/2mTbrDX by https://www.flickr.com/photos/150924424@N08/, sur Flickr

https://flic.kr/p/2mTeJ7ohttps://flic.kr/p/2mTeJ7o by https://www.flickr.com/photos/150924424@N08/, sur Flickr

https://flic.kr/p/2mTfXR6https://flic.kr/p/2mTfXR6 by https://www.flickr.com/photos/150924424@N08/, sur Flickr

https://flic.kr/p/2mT7gaphttps://flic.kr/p/2mT7gap by https://www.flickr.com/photos/150924424@N08/, sur Flickr

https://flic.kr/p/2mTcGUGhttps://flic.kr/p/2mTcGUG by https://www.flickr.com/photos/150924424@N08/, sur Flickr

https://flic.kr/p/2mTeJ6Ghttps://flic.kr/p/2mTeJ6G by https://www.flickr.com/photos/150924424@N08/, sur Flickr

https://flic.kr/p/2mTbrD6https://flic.kr/p/2mTbrD6 by https://www.flickr.com/photos/150924424@N08/, sur Flickr

More later

Posted by: dgionet Dec 28 2021, 12:19 PM

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

https://flic.kr/p/2mTXVaYhttps://flic.kr/p/2mTXVaY by https://www.flickr.com/photos/150924424@N08/, sur Flickr

Enjoy the package and Happy trainsimming!

Posted by: Conductor Chris Dec 29 2021, 03:21 PM

Do you think the changes to the route database are enough to break previous activities? Should I make a new copy of the route?

Posted by: dgionet Dec 29 2021, 06:04 PM

It may affect previous activities. I haven't tested the acts that were released after the route release over the years

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