First Indian Route

[dforrestc]

With so many downloads for Indian railways I would like to try one. Can anyone recommend a steam-era route, with activities and stock available, which I can download?

[baldwin]

Our Indian colleagues are modelling what they see today, diesel and electric. There are a few steam locomotive models, some passenger cars and one or two freight cars, No activities made for them on any route as far as I know.

[joe_star]

With so many downloads for Indian railways I would like to try one. Can anyone recommend a steam-era route, with activities and stock available, which I can download?

Try the Aryankavu viaduct with the excellent YP class steam locos from Pravin David. I believe some activities have been made for them as well. Search his name for the downloads in the file section

Other than that is almost exclusively modern fare (stock & routes).

[gremlin1812]

G'day, All.
I have installed the "Aryankavu viaduct route" and the stock by Pravin David all went well and even found one activity for the route. It is a picturesque route and the stock by Pravin David complements the route very well, a pity there are not any more activities for the route.
Regards
Barrie

[dforrestc]

G'day, All.
I have installed the "Aryankavu viaduct route" and the stock by Pravin David all went well and even found one activity for the route. It is a picturesque route and the stock by Pravin David complements the route very well, a pity there are not any more activities for the route.
Regards
Barrie

I agree with you Barrie. A very large download for just one activity.

[joe_star]

G'day, All.
I have installed the "Aryankavu viaduct route" and the stock by Pravin David all went well and even found one activity for the route. It is a picturesque route and the stock by Pravin David complements the route very well, a pity there are not any more activities for the route.
Regards
Barrie

Agree....the Indian fans seem more interested in modelling contemporary routes, stock & acitivities though.

I am working on a project covering the Khyber Pass railway, as it was in the 1920s, but progress is very slow & I do not know if or when I will release it.

[dforrestc]

Agree....the Indian fans seem more interested in modelling contemporary routes, stock & acitivities though.

I am working on a project covering the Khyber Pass railway, as it was in the 1920s, but progress is very slow & I do not know if or when I will release it.

That sounds very interesting Joe. Have you any more details to share?

[dforrestc]

G'day, All.
I have installed the "Aryankavu viaduct route" and the stock by Pravin David all went well and even found one activity for the route. It is a picturesque route and the stock by Pravin David complements the route very well, a pity there are not any more activities for the route.
Regards
Barrie

Can anyone tell me the names of the stock files needed for the one activity. They do not appear to be l listed anywhere.

[daniellouwrens]

Hi

I have installed the Routs and act but cannot get it to run in OR which crashes.

I have triple checked the install against the readme and it seems fine.

I have attached the log file in case it makes sense to anyone.

Please ignore the jpg, I have no idea where it cane from or
how to get rid of it.

Any help appreciated.

Regards

Daniel

[gremlin1812]

G'day Daniel, your OR.log looks the same as mine so no clue there. The route is fairly heavy on frame rates but runs fine for me with just an occasional faint stutter, my PC is an oldy but a goody.

Processor = Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E7500 @ 2.93GHz
Memory = 4.0 GB
Video Card = NVIDIA GeForce GT 430 (1.0 GB RAM)
Display = (1280 x 1024, 32-bit

I run with a draw distance of 3000 but to me it does not seem to detract from the look. Wish I could be of more help.
Regards
Barrie

[daniellouwrens]

Hi

thanks for your input, my specs are more recent and capable than
than yours so I would not expect any issues there.

My laptop which is much lower speced than your runs Feather River on OR
and will not run on MSTS.

I will keep looking.

Regards

Daniel

[gremlin1812]

G'day Dfrrestc, Get stock by Pravin David from the file library.

[joe_star]

Hi

thanks for your input, my specs are more recent and capable than
than yours so I would not expect any issues there.

My laptop which is much lower speced than your runs Feather River on OR
and will not run on MSTS.

I will keep looking.

Regards

Daniel

An essential file is missing from your route folder. Usually this is environment related files which are copied from the default MSTS routes. Check the readme and see if an installme.bat needs to be run from the routes directory

Keep in mind to successfully run the installme.bat, you need all default MSTS routes present in your install

Also, I recall the route being 10 or so parts. Are you sure everything was downloaded and unzipped correctly? A quick check would be to compare the folder and file structure in the route folder with another working route to see what's missing

[dforrestc]

G'day Dfrrestc, Get stock by Pravin David from the file library.

Thanks. Found them.

[daniellouwrens]

An essential file is missing from your route folder. Usually this is environment related files which are copied from the default MSTS routes. Check the readme and see if an installme.bat needs to be run from the routes directory

Keep in mind to successfully run the installme.bat, you need all default MSTS routes present in your install

Also, I recall the route being 10 or so parts. Are you sure everything was downloaded and unzipped correctly? A quick check would be to compare the folder and file structure in the route folder with another working route to see what's missing

Hi

Thanks for your input, I did have all the files and followed the instructions very carefully so I checked the content in RR ignoring any fixes and just noting the errors.

I found a lot of zero byte shape files that were not zero in the downloaded files but were zero after unzipping them.

I reinstalled the shapes by copy and pasting them directly into the Shapes folder and overwriting present files.

That fixed the problem, all is running well now, for some reason the unzipping process corrupted some of the
shape files.

Regards

Daniel