TrainSimulations DRGW/UP Green River route for OR

[Curt C]

I was just made aware of the upgrade of the Green River route, to run with OR. The info on the site is fairly vague, as to what, if anything, is different (scenery, etc?) from the old MSTS route and I was wondering if anyone has purchased it, and what the thoughts might be? Looks like there has been some activities added for the UP. Any feedback is appreciated.

[R. Steele]

Good question, I was wondering about that also...maybe "geepster775" will see this, usually keeps up on that stuff.

Did you see that Brian Smolke uploaded a scenery update for the Green River Route?

Name: grupdate1.zip
Size: 25,437,640 Date: 03-14-2022 Downloads: 112

MSTS/OR Route - Green River Route Update. Requires TrainSimulations' DRGW Green River Route v1.0. This is a minor scenery update to add miscellaneous details to the Green River route, especially in the developed regions on the east and west ends of the route. Update by Brian Smolke.

[Curt C]

Yes Gerry, I forgot to mention that I did download Brian's scenery upgrade, and so far I'm pleased with what I'm seeing.

[daniellouwrens]

I was just made aware of the upgrade of the Green River route, to run with OR. The info on the site is fairly vague, as to what, if anything, is different (scenery, etc?) from the old MSTS route and I was wondering if anyone has purchased it, and what the thoughts might be? Looks like there has been some activities added for the UP. Any feedback is appreciated.

Hi

I cannot see any upgrade for the Green River route on Trainsimulations site.

Which section is it in, also I cannot find any log in page.

Cheers

Daniel

[trainmanaustin]

From what I understood, the latest version is optimized for OR versus the MSTS version.

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[R. Steele]

Hi

I cannot see any upgrade for the Green River route on Trainsimulations site.

Which section is it in, also I cannot find any log in page.

Cheers

Daniel

Daniel, uploaded here in the file library.

[CivilEng]

Going back to the original question, I've checked out both the older MSTS version and the current ORTS version of the Green River route from TrainSimulations. They appeared almost identical in terms of scenery. As has been said, the version that's currently offered has been optimized to work with ORTS.

From what I can tell, the scenery update in the file library works with both versions.

[Curt C]

Hi

I cannot see any upgrade for the Green River route on Trainsimulations site.

Which section is it in, also I cannot find any log in page.

Cheers

Daniel

Just go to the "Routes" section. Says it's been upgraded to OR.

Thank you CivilEng for your research and comments!

[geepster775]

Going back to the original question, I've checked out both the older MSTS version and the current ORTS version of the Green River route from TrainSimulations. They appeared almost identical in terms of scenery. As has been said, the version that's currently offered has been optimized to work with ORTS.

From what I can tell, the scenery update in the file library works with both versions.

So do both versions still use ACE files then? Clearly the newer one comes with the Kaiser coal set, the F40 CZ set and the UP add-on bundled with it, whereas the original version did not (they were all extras). No inclusion of the UP SD70M windmill train set though, correct? Did the newer set fix the gauge problems with the DRGW power and the Kaiser SD45s? These models in their older set form were a bit too 'narrow gauge'.

As for the scenery upgrade in the library, it is no way 'official', but just a user supplied bump in scenery similar to the Surfliner upgrade from 2.2 to 2.3