MRS Logisitica (South America) routes

[landnrailroader]

I just uploaded the first of four routes, two of which would I guess exceed the limit on uploads as one is about 3Gbt and the other about 5Gbt. Those two have a lot of painted textures in them. I am also going to upload all of the MRS equipment and consists that I have and so it may be desirable to place all of them that you choose to get in a common, separate, install for ORTS. At least two routes are ORTS only, and I suspect all four, but since I no longer use MSTS I cannot know for sure. Also they may or may not contain payware items and I no longer know who created them but they were on a South American train sim site that apparently no longer exists. Only one of the routes appears to be geographically accurate but all four were well done using what was available back then and I am working on doing at least the main steel route as it is called geographically correct. MRS Logistica has several routes, none of which carry passengers anymore except for some lines around Sao Paulo. There is an Iron Ore loadout on the coast, actually on an island, 30KM or so southwest of Rio and the line extends about 120KM inland to Bara do Pirai at which point it splits. The original line, now used for empty trains going back to the ore pits (opposed to heavy grades) turns east, northeast through Santos Dumon, and continues for many kilometers to the pits near Belo Horizonte. A new line constructed in the 1980s run from Bara Manza north more or less to the ore pits. There are some 15 tunnels south of Bara do Pirai, and around 60 more from Bara Manza north. Bara do Pirai to Bara Manza was constructed in the early 20th century.

Around 2010, the company I worked for (for me it was fun), the signal division of WABTEC got a contract to renew the signalling on most of MRS starting with this 1980s line which they call Ferovia do Aco, literally line of or steel road where the loads move south. I was tasked with creating with CAD the typicals for all of the signal installation which MRS decided to base on the methods used by CSX. I met some nice folks who would sit with me and when I would put in a English description of something, they would translate it, and on a different layer, I put the Brazi Portugues. The Microsation CAD files have up to 64 available levels to use and these can be turned off or on easily. That is why I am interested in it. A search on YouTube will turn up a large number of clips on this line as well.

Jerry Sullivan (aka landnrailroader)

[anderson martins]

I just uploaded the first of four routes, two of which would I guess exceed the limit on uploads as one is about 3Gbt and the other about 5Gbt. Those two have a lot of painted textures in them. I am also going to upload all of the MRS equipment and consists that I have and so it may be desirable to place all of them that you choose to get in a common, separate, install for ORTS. At least two routes are ORTS only, and I suspect all four, but since I no longer use MSTS I cannot know for sure. Also they may or may not contain payware items and I no longer know who created them but they were on a South American train sim site that apparently no longer exists. Only one of the routes appears to be geographically accurate but all four were well done using what was available back then and I am working on doing at least the main steel route as it is called geographically correct. MRS Logistica has several routes, none of which carry passengers anymore except for some lines around Sao Paulo. There is an Iron Ore loadout on the coast, actually on an island, 30KM or so southwest of Rio and the line extends about 120KM inland to Bara do Pirai at which point it splits. The original line, now used for empty trains going back to the ore pits (opposed to heavy grades) turns east, northeast through Santos Dumon, and continues for many kilometers to the pits near Belo Horizonte. A new line constructed in the 1980s run from Bara Manza north more or less to the ore pits. There are some 15 tunnels south of Bara do Pirai, and around 60 more from Bara Manza north. Bara do Pirai to Bara Manza was constructed in the early 20th century.

Around 2010, the company I worked for (for me it was fun), the signal division of WABTEC got a contract to renew the signalling on most of MRS starting with this 1980s line which they call Ferovia do Aco, literally line of or steel road where the loads move south. I was tasked with creating with CAD the typicals for all of the signal installation which MRS decided to base on the methods used by CSX. I met some nice folks who would sit with me and when I would put in a English description of something, they would translate it, and on a different layer, I put the Brazi Portugues. The Microsation CAD files have up to 64 available levels to use and these can be turned off or on easily. That is why I am interested in it. A search on YouTube will turn up a large number of clips on this line as well.

Jerry Sullivan (aka landnrailroader)

Hello, Land Railroader (as the uploader—I have no idea who actually created the route):
Who did you get this "Ramal do Paraopeba" route from? (I am one of the authors.)
And who did you get the other three mentioned in the text from?

[SD40-2]

Jerry,

Alas, some payware slipped through. Your rolling stock pack contains shapes from the original release of the ATSF Seligman Route, and MLT Cascades Crossing.

The two gons use the Seligman shape, and the MRS_HES and MRS_HES1 use the UP Hopper shape from Cascades Crossing, re-scaled.

[landnrailroader]

Anderson,

I don't remember who sent them to me. If there are any objections, I won't upload the other two which are much larger. And if there is objections to these, I will ask Eric to delete them. The other two routes, once I deleted the "raw" files zipped up to slightly less and slightly more, than 5Gbt. The person or persons had sent me links to a site that held them back then. These came to be at least 10 years ago, and the other two around 6 years ago. I have them stored on DVDs and I had a request for one of them from another member which he said had a .dds file in it but only one of the two that I have not uploaded yet fits that description and the only one was the "load.dds" file.

My interest was tweaked around 2011 when I was tasked with creating typicals (drawings) for signal locations when WABTEC/Xorail got a contract for designing new control points & other signals on the Ferrovia do Aco line and then I think they got contracts to do more but in 2017 a gentleman took over CSX where most of our work came from and as we knew he would, he cancelled all contractors and consultants. I had retired in 2001 from CSX and so doing the signal work was more fun than work and after many of us got the axe, I was able to help some of the others find work.

Jerry

[landnrailroader]

SD40-2,

I guess you mean Jerry, don't know who John is. Maybe we should have Eric delete that item too. I really hate it when things like that happen or even worse when someone uploads a really great "item" and then it has payware dependencies that one may or may not have other use for. There are some MRS items in the cars and locomotives category in the library. I think the locomotives are just repaints of original MSTS items. I don't get much "kick" out of doing activities because 50 years and more ago, during wild cat strikes on the SR, as a minor officer, I had the priviledge of running the real thing.

Jerry

[Diter Oliveira]

Good evening!
I’m the one who created this route,
with the help of the Brazilian community and my late friend Alvaro Silva.
There is already a version 2 of this route, extending it to the *Ferrovia do Aço* (Steel Railway).
I built it back then using the MSTS editor itself.

[landnrailroader]

Diter,

I won't upload the other two that I have but is there a possibility that you could upload your version 2 to the library. Those routes are really well done. As I probably told you I did much of the preliminary draftiing for the revisions to the signal system on MRS and it is a fascinating route. When I set up my MRS01 and MRS02, I did not realize that the break point should be just north of Bara Manza and instead I put it at the junction about 50KM or so east of there. Since Google Earth is set to disappear (practically speaking) in 6/27 I am rushing along digitizing all routes I plan to do. Although my health is good and I do a week a year as a docent on the Cumbres & Toltec, I am not steady enough of hand to do the painting etc. that the really great routes require, so I limit my effort to tracks & roads.In the case of MRS routes, I will also do the bridges and Tunnels and I will say that the components for those came from the Ferrovia do Aco route as it presently exists. That MRS work I did was back in 2011. Some really nice folks came up here to help us with translation and more recently my church has added a gentleman from northern Brazil (he went to school in Recife before coming to the US to improve his English & then became a citizen) as our minister of music & worship.

When I release one of my routes it goes into the "incomplete" category and anyone that wishes can work on it. I do make sure that the route is operable. There are two versions of my Knoxville (L&N) line in the library, one of mine, and another by a lad that took mine and really finished it. He has also done a much improved Pocahontas route.

Jerry