Shortly, I will upload Alaska2, Anchorage to Fairbanks to the incomplete area. Here is the instructions for it which are also contained in the documents folder.
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ALASKA RAILROAD MAIN & BRANCHES, ANCHORAGE TO FAIRBANKS & EIELSON AFB (NOTE IN DOCUMENTS FOLDER)
THIS ROUTE WAS PUT TOGETHER ABSOLUTELY TRACKS ONLY AT THE REQUEST OF ONE OR MORE OF OUR BROTHERS THAT
WANTS TO HAVE THIS ROUTE EVENTUALLY DETAILED OUT AND AVAILABLE.
I have carefully put the route together, however there are known aberrations between Google Earth
Coordinates and MSTS coordinates. This has resulted in many distorted curves, worse as the route
progresses north & thus closer to the north pole. While the tiles appear to be rectangular in the
TSRE editor, they are stretched out in one direction and squeezed together in the other when seen
in DEMEX. I have followed the digitized path but whoever works on the route may prefer to smooth
the curves and if so, I would use dynamic track to construct a smooth curve from one tangent to the
other and then place scenery objects accordingly. Neither my method or this method would be correct
but one might be preferred over the other.
The route comprises roughly 350 miles of main line and 50 miles of branches with the largest being
the Eielson AFB branch at 29 miles. I have not learned how to create activities, so I have used the
Track Viewer delivered with ORTS to check continuity of the main line. Now, if you start in Fairbanks
the path will cease to generate about 2/3 of the way to Anchorage but I have found that this is evidently
because there is a finite number of nodes allowed in a single patch and with 350 miles there are a LOT OF
NODES.
The route is delivered in a single zip file which one should unzip to a temporary direcotory and then
once you are satisfied with the structure, copy the route to your working area. This note and other
material is in the documents folder. There in, you will find a folder that contains .kml, .kmz, and
.mkr files. .Kml or .KMZ files can be opened in Google Earth to reproduce the digitizing as needed
in that program. .kml files have been converted to .mkr filels and these marker files can be added to
the marker file of the route to show particulars of a area. And lastly, there is .pdf file of the
2010 track charts. Note that a lot of track shown on those charts does not exist now, although where
possible, I have added into the route.
I used RouteRiter to compress the route but there were very few items in the texture & shapes folder
that were used in the route, so the reduction in size was miniscule. I therefore kept the RRbackups
folder in the route.
Jerry Sullivan, P.E. (retired from Southern & CSX)
jhsulliv@comcast.net
Jerry Sullivan
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ALASKA RAILROAD MAIN & BRANCHES, ANCHORAGE TO FAIRBANKS & EIELSON AFB (NOTE IN DOCUMENTS FOLDER)
THIS ROUTE WAS PUT TOGETHER ABSOLUTELY TRACKS ONLY AT THE REQUEST OF ONE OR MORE OF OUR BROTHERS THAT
WANTS TO HAVE THIS ROUTE EVENTUALLY DETAILED OUT AND AVAILABLE.
I have carefully put the route together, however there are known aberrations between Google Earth
Coordinates and MSTS coordinates. This has resulted in many distorted curves, worse as the route
progresses north & thus closer to the north pole. While the tiles appear to be rectangular in the
TSRE editor, they are stretched out in one direction and squeezed together in the other when seen
in DEMEX. I have followed the digitized path but whoever works on the route may prefer to smooth
the curves and if so, I would use dynamic track to construct a smooth curve from one tangent to the
other and then place scenery objects accordingly. Neither my method or this method would be correct
but one might be preferred over the other.
The route comprises roughly 350 miles of main line and 50 miles of branches with the largest being
the Eielson AFB branch at 29 miles. I have not learned how to create activities, so I have used the
Track Viewer delivered with ORTS to check continuity of the main line. Now, if you start in Fairbanks
the path will cease to generate about 2/3 of the way to Anchorage but I have found that this is evidently
because there is a finite number of nodes allowed in a single patch and with 350 miles there are a LOT OF
NODES.
The route is delivered in a single zip file which one should unzip to a temporary direcotory and then
once you are satisfied with the structure, copy the route to your working area. This note and other
material is in the documents folder. There in, you will find a folder that contains .kml, .kmz, and
.mkr files. .Kml or .KMZ files can be opened in Google Earth to reproduce the digitizing as needed
in that program. .kml files have been converted to .mkr filels and these marker files can be added to
the marker file of the route to show particulars of a area. And lastly, there is .pdf file of the
2010 track charts. Note that a lot of track shown on those charts does not exist now, although where
possible, I have added into the route.
I used RouteRiter to compress the route but there were very few items in the texture & shapes folder
that were used in the route, so the reduction in size was miniscule. I therefore kept the RRbackups
folder in the route.
Jerry Sullivan, P.E. (retired from Southern & CSX)
jhsulliv@comcast.net
Jerry Sullivan
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