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]

Hi to all,

Just to confirm that the route project is not dead but slowly advancing on Teemu's side.

It has been more than two months without any update until this week-end. Teemu has sent me the Beta 843 route update, from the previous beta 837. It contains many changes to the route, including some resolved issues, mostly around the Black Rock yards, some changes in the North Buffalo area and inside the Bethlehem Steel plant.

Sidings have been deleted, others were created and some were renamed. Looking at the AE using the old template files ( made for 837) reveals about 15 markers have been out of position.

Unfortunately, with all these changes, it becomes too complex to update. For those not familiar with template making, it is becoming a nightmare to work with both the SWLACT, SWLTDB and the AE. It is too complex for me to handle so many changes.

That will mean that I will have to restart the template process, but not completely. The first 375 markers, being put starting in Niagara and moving South until the Black Rock Yards area seem to be untouched, so far, unless Teemu makes changes on them on later versions. Time will tell. The number of serviceable sidings in the route is about 1050.

So that's it for now. I will probably wait for Teemu's official release and also will need Craig's finished maps of the official release before resuming the template. Craig is also receiving the route files to allow him to update his map system. Craig's maps were very helpful in reaching that level I have reached. I must re-establish the regions, about 100 in the template package and will need Craig's printed maps from the new version, circle each region with coloured markers and rework the template.

Will update later

[ckawahara]

To add to Denis' remarks, the changes for whatever reason were quite extensive, many of them not obvious. I have identified many new crossovers, many deleted crossovers, entire yards now gone, as well as track realigments, deletions and additions.

[rfranzosa]

To add to Denis' remarks, the changes for whatever reason were quite extensive, many of them not obvious. I have identified many new crossovers, many deleted crossovers, entire yards now gone, as well as track realigments, deletions and additions.

Wow!

This is still going to be a route (and templates) worth waiting for!

Rick