New Marias Pass Route

[OmenRotcod]

I look forward to that, Kenny. It's an interesting route and I like that it has an Activity Generator add-on.

David

[CSRX]

CSRX I'm surprised TS gave you permissions to do this.
How did that happen I wonder.

What are you even going on about?

[pschlik]

I did a random run over the route in fast forward to get an idea of what we got, and the track laying here is vastly better than the old attempts at Marias. The route is a rollercoaster only where it should be, and with none of those 5% grades grinding things to a halt. All the infrastructure assets like signals, mileposts, speed signs, roads, and railroad crossings are good to see, the route is actually playable even if not pretty. I hope the good state of the route as-is and the significance of the region to the MSOR community can motivate some scenery wizard to do the beautification part.

[CSRX]

I did a random run over the route in fast forward to get an idea of what we got, and the track laying here is vastly better than the old attempts at Marias. The route is a rollercoaster only where it should be, and with none of those 5% grades grinding things to a halt. All the infrastructure assets like signals, mileposts, speed signs, roads, and railroad crossings are good to see, the route is actually playable even if not pretty. I hope the good state of the route as-is and the significance of the region to the MSOR community can motivate some scenery wizard to do the beautification part.

My original plan was to revamp the Marias Pass 5 route, however Travis was up for the task of laying out track. I'm hoping to get started on scenery soon. I cannot make any promises though..

[johnnyboy99]

I'm thinking of making basic eastbound and westbound activities that have you drive trains across the entire length of the route as you meet AI traffic
oh and CSRX will there be custom scenery in it? The bridge at Glacier Park is actually an arch bridge, contrary to what Kuju would want you to believe with their concrete bridge depiction. That's in the Trainz version of the route

[CSRX]

I'm thinking of making basic eastbound and westbound activities that have you drive trains across the entire length of the route as you meet AI traffic
oh and CSRX will there be custom scenery in it? The bridge at Glacier Park is actually an arch bridge, contrary to what Kuju would want you to believe with their concrete bridge depiction. That's in the Trainz version of the route

I'll have to look to see what bridge structures are available in version 5, as well as here in the library. Everything else so far has been items from the TrainSimulations routes, because let's face it, they have the best scenery objects to date, along side with Paul Charland massive custom objects that will probably be scattered in the route as well.

But like I said. I can't make any promises on this being completed and possibly released with a bat file to copy what's needed from the TS routes, if that is even possible.
Between working the real world trains 4-5 days a week, house chores, and other things, I don't get much time to do a whole lot for ORTS. I mean, I've done two boxcars repaints in two weeks... Something I used to be able to bang out in 10 mins. Haha.

[Jdark34]

when i get openrails i will download both routes.

[CSRX]

Just dropping in scenery here and there. I ended up copying several shape files not only for the TS Mullan Pass, but from the La Salle, Rockford & Central route, as well as the Marias Pass V5 route for the custom bridges and some of the older station objects.

[johnnyboy99]

some of the old US2 shapes are long overdue for a replacement. Pete Willard was working on some if i'm correct
funny enough, I also added carspawners to my install of BNSF_HIL. It's the carspawn list from MP5.

[CSRX]

I don't know as if Pete has redone the stations, which honestly, it is what I was aiming to pull from the Marias Pass V5 anyways, including the custom bridges that were in that route.

[johnnyboy99]

funny how the old one for Trainz even with how primitive it looks (especially the one with TRS2006), it's more accurate than the default MSTS version, especially the trackwork and grading

[Whatever2006]

My original plan was to revamp the Marias Pass 5 route, however Travis was up for the task of laying out track. I'm hoping to get started on scenery soon. I cannot make any promises though..

Best of luck to you on the scenery work Shawn!

[landnrailroader]

Glad to see a better Marias Pass route in the making (I rode over Marias pass after dark in January 1999) and even more so to see Eric's comment about interactives because in many of my routes, I have the signal data and could add that as well as mileposts and perhaps crossings. It is the terrain shaping that I am never satisfied with in TSRE, and I have several routes that I can take to a point & then release so those more skilled at detailing can twiddle with to their heart's content.

Jerry Sullivan

[Erick_Cantu]

Hopefully, I'll have time later this year to get back to the rest of the replacement rolling stock, and the community-at-large will be able to take care of the scenery items.

[Der_Hans]

Just dropping in scenery here and there. I ended up copying several shape files not only for the TS Mullan Pass, but from the La Salle, Rockford & Central route, as well as the Marias Pass V5 route for the custom bridges and some of the older station objects.

When you're done with this, please send me a message or tag me or something to get my attention. I don't pop in here (or play ORTS) very often, but when I do it's usually this route. A reworked Maria's Pass would be a dream come true for me.