Upgraded Seaboard Air Line route, SALv3 route template in the works Options

[dgionet]

Hi to all,

Following Carey Steven's Seaboard Air Line upgrade on his route recently released in the Skyline Computing Home page, I have started working on a new template project for the upgraded route.

What changes have been done on this upgrade?

The ACL section between Bradenton and Tampa has been fully sceniced. Also the ACL trackage between Tampa and Plant City has been linked. Although a part of the trackage needs to be sceniced (about 15 miles starting from the Acela yard and going East), I intend to put markers on industries and put traffic along to create a template covering this area.

Also Tyler Bundy has created low-poly phosphate strings of cars to allow me to fill the numerous phosphate yards that are part of this route. That will bring more realism to the template project and keep a reasonable level of performance. A big thanks Tyler for your hard work on these!

On my first attempt to start the project in May, I have encountered an issue which caused the markers to disappear completely in the MSTS Activity Editor. Result: I had to re-install MSTS and had to restart the whole template project. Last week, I have restarted completely the project and am happy to confirm the whole SAL section has been complete, regarding the placement of markers, the building of the SWLTDB file and the car attributes to each siding on the SAL railroad system. The SAL trackage contains 280 serviceable sidings and what remains is now the ACL trackage between Bradenton and Plant City.

I will be toggling between three templates projects: the PRR-2, the SALv3 and the newly released FJ&Gv2 route.

Will be posting as this projects advances.

[dgionet]

Hello to all,

Just to confirm that the work is finished for the SALv3 template project. Compared to the previous route version, the number of templates has risen from 25 to 32 templates and the number of serviceable sidings in the project is close to 450.

I will start testing the route and hope to have it released in the next weeks or so. Benny is currently testing the ACL templates, so I will be checking the ones for the SAL network.

Will try to include some shots as testing progresses