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Name of Route: F1 IND New York City Subway Route in MSTS Folder USA3d
Version: Version 1.0
Description: New York City Subway/Elevated route. This route models the 6th and 8th Ave. IND lines in the Bronx, Manhattan and Brooklyn. Also modelled are two IRT routes.
This route is prototypical of the 6th and 8th Avenue IND lines from 205th St in the Bronx and 207th St in Upper Manhattan down to West 4th Street in Lower Manhattan. Protoytpical in the sense that it follows the track maps and most station designs are typical of the New York System although not exact renderings of each station. (Please don't count every rivet, it's fairly close)
The 8th Ave line south of 14th Street in Manhattan is two track instead of four track but the station sequence and track route is prototypical. The remainder of the IND line is freelance.
The route also includes two freelance IRT lines. A portion of one of the IRT lines is protoypical of the Lexington Ave. line from Bowling Green to 42nd Street. These lines share storage yards with the IND lines at 205th Street and Smith Street.
The route will operate any time of day in any season rain or snow although it is not intended for winter, rain or snow unless you want to see rain or snow in the subway tunnel. Not all of the objects have snow textures.
Installation Method: Unzip download into the Routes folder and run Installme.bat. Four trainset folders are provided for work train consists. Install these folders in the TRAINS\TRAINSET folder. Consist files for subway stock for running activities. Install these in TRAINS\CONSIST folder.
Size of Download: One zip file 88 MB
Size of Installed Route: 203 mb
Fantasy, Prototypical, or Freelance Operations: IND lines from the Bronx to W. 4th St. in Lower Manhattan are prototypical. IRT line from Bowling Green to 42nd St. is prototypical. The remainder of the route is free lance.
Freight or Passenger: Passenger
Era or Genre: Traction around 1960.
Location: New York City
Length of Lines: Estimated
IND 205th St (Bronx) to Smith St. Yard - 19.5 miles
IND 207th St (Manhattan) to Smith St. Yard - 19 miles
IRT 205th St to Smith St. Yard - 18.6 miles
IRT Smith St. Yard to Pelham Bay Park - 17.4 miles
Number of Sidings or Storage Yards:
Three Large IND aboveground storage yards at 205th Street, 207th Street and Smith Street. The 205th Street and Smith St. Yards are shared by the IRT lines.
IND Lines - One underground storage at 174th Street, and one at
Park Place
7 Underground sidings
IRT Lines - One underground storage at Queens Plaza
8 Underground Sidings
Mixture of Dual and Single Track: Estimate
4 track 40%
3 track 15%
2 track 45%
Level of Trackside Detail: All three lines are fully signalled
IND Lines - 69 Platforms or stations (67 Underground, 2 Elevated)
IRT Lines - 61 Platforms or stations (48 Underground, 8 Elevated, 5 Surface)
Amount of Scenery Completed: Scenery in all above ground locations. 100%.
FPS Specs, with qualifiers: Route developers computer, Pentium 4, 2.8GHz, 504 MB RAM, 64 MB VRAM-Intel(R) 82845G Graphics Controller. FPS 20-38 in most underground locations (Sliders up, visibility about 1000). FPS ranges from 15-25 with same slider settings as before in aboveground locations. Lower range occurs when
running activities due to the AI trains. Aboveground locations are highly detailed. These rates will drop depending upon the activity and the number of AI trains in service.
This is not, nor can it ever be, a definitive benchmark. That is just not possible. It is just a guideline, some indicator of what the user may be able to expect. However, if you see an FPS
range of 10-30 on a computer which is clearly more robust than yours, expect to get the lower end of that
range--maybe even lower.
Activities Provided:
4 Explore Activities which cover almost 100% of the route. (No AI Traffic)
13 Route Activities varying in AI traffic covering 100% of the route. Estimated times to complete activities ranges from about 15 minutes to 2 hours.
The following is a list of the activities included with the route:
Explore IND1
Explore IND2
Explore IRT1
Explore IRT2
IND-207th to 205th
IND-Rush Hour
IND-8th Ave. Local
IND-145th St. to Smith St. Yard
IND-205th St. to 207th St.
IND 205th St. to Park Slope
IND Smith St. Yard to 207th St.
IND-Move Work Train to 207th St.
IRT-205th St. Yard to 88th St.
IRT Night Run-Pelham Bay Pk. to Smith St. Yd.
IRT Night Run-Smith St to 88th St
IRT-Kingston Ave. to Pelham Bay Pk.
IRT-Queens Plaza to 86th St.
Non-Default Consists or Rolling Stock Required in Activities: Download the following from
http://www.train-sim.com/ file library
IRT Lo-V Early Steinway Railcars - Download "irtlovem.zip" "MSTS IRT Lo-V Early Model Railcars"
Download includes 6 car consist required for activities.
IRT R-22 Grimey Railcars - Download "irt_r22g.zip" "MSTS IRT R-22 Grimey Railcars".
IRT Lo-V Railcars - Download "irtlovwm.zip" "MSTS IRT Lo-V Railcars"
IND R-4 Railcars - Download "R4IND.zip" "MSTS New York City Independent Subway R4 Railcars"
IND R-9 Railcars - Download "R9IND.zip" "MSTS New York City Independent Subway R9 Railcars"
MTA 5301 Subway Cars - Download "MTA_5300.zip" "MSTS MTA 5301 Subway Cars"
F1 IND download includes consist files needed for activities.
F1 IND Download also includes trainsets for the wagons which make up work train consists.
Add-In Track Sets: Download the following from http://www.train-sim.com/ file library
xtracks.zip "MSTS Xtracks V. 3.11 Standardized Edition" or any later version
newroads.zip "MSTS Newroads v2.3 Auto-installer" or any later version
Tsection.dat file used: Download the following from http://www.train-sim.com/ file library
tsection.zip "MSTS Standardized\Global\Tsection.dat" File Build 00025 or later
Payware or Freeware: Freeware
URL for More Information and Screenshots: None
Known Problems: Reduced frame rates in aboveground scenes and activities with heavy AI traffic. User must adjust sliders for better performance.
Where it can be downloaded: http://www.train-sim.com/ file library
Version: Version 1.0
Description: New York City Subway/Elevated route. This route models the 6th and 8th Ave. IND lines in the Bronx, Manhattan and Brooklyn. Also modelled are two IRT routes.
This route is prototypical of the 6th and 8th Avenue IND lines from 205th St in the Bronx and 207th St in Upper Manhattan down to West 4th Street in Lower Manhattan. Protoytpical in the sense that it follows the track maps and most station designs are typical of the New York System although not exact renderings of each station. (Please don't count every rivet, it's fairly close)
The 8th Ave line south of 14th Street in Manhattan is two track instead of four track but the station sequence and track route is prototypical. The remainder of the IND line is freelance.
The route also includes two freelance IRT lines. A portion of one of the IRT lines is protoypical of the Lexington Ave. line from Bowling Green to 42nd Street. These lines share storage yards with the IND lines at 205th Street and Smith Street.
The route will operate any time of day in any season rain or snow although it is not intended for winter, rain or snow unless you want to see rain or snow in the subway tunnel. Not all of the objects have snow textures.
Installation Method: Unzip download into the Routes folder and run Installme.bat. Four trainset folders are provided for work train consists. Install these folders in the TRAINS\TRAINSET folder. Consist files for subway stock for running activities. Install these in TRAINS\CONSIST folder.
Size of Download: One zip file 88 MB
Size of Installed Route: 203 mb
Fantasy, Prototypical, or Freelance Operations: IND lines from the Bronx to W. 4th St. in Lower Manhattan are prototypical. IRT line from Bowling Green to 42nd St. is prototypical. The remainder of the route is free lance.
Freight or Passenger: Passenger
Era or Genre: Traction around 1960.
Location: New York City
Length of Lines: Estimated
IND 205th St (Bronx) to Smith St. Yard - 19.5 miles
IND 207th St (Manhattan) to Smith St. Yard - 19 miles
IRT 205th St to Smith St. Yard - 18.6 miles
IRT Smith St. Yard to Pelham Bay Park - 17.4 miles
Number of Sidings or Storage Yards:
Three Large IND aboveground storage yards at 205th Street, 207th Street and Smith Street. The 205th Street and Smith St. Yards are shared by the IRT lines.
IND Lines - One underground storage at 174th Street, and one at
Park Place
7 Underground sidings
IRT Lines - One underground storage at Queens Plaza
8 Underground Sidings
Mixture of Dual and Single Track: Estimate
4 track 40%
3 track 15%
2 track 45%
Level of Trackside Detail: All three lines are fully signalled
IND Lines - 69 Platforms or stations (67 Underground, 2 Elevated)
IRT Lines - 61 Platforms or stations (48 Underground, 8 Elevated, 5 Surface)
Amount of Scenery Completed: Scenery in all above ground locations. 100%.
FPS Specs, with qualifiers: Route developers computer, Pentium 4, 2.8GHz, 504 MB RAM, 64 MB VRAM-Intel(R) 82845G Graphics Controller. FPS 20-38 in most underground locations (Sliders up, visibility about 1000). FPS ranges from 15-25 with same slider settings as before in aboveground locations. Lower range occurs when
running activities due to the AI trains. Aboveground locations are highly detailed. These rates will drop depending upon the activity and the number of AI trains in service.
This is not, nor can it ever be, a definitive benchmark. That is just not possible. It is just a guideline, some indicator of what the user may be able to expect. However, if you see an FPS
range of 10-30 on a computer which is clearly more robust than yours, expect to get the lower end of that
range--maybe even lower.
Activities Provided:
4 Explore Activities which cover almost 100% of the route. (No AI Traffic)
13 Route Activities varying in AI traffic covering 100% of the route. Estimated times to complete activities ranges from about 15 minutes to 2 hours.
The following is a list of the activities included with the route:
Explore IND1
Explore IND2
Explore IRT1
Explore IRT2
IND-207th to 205th
IND-Rush Hour
IND-8th Ave. Local
IND-145th St. to Smith St. Yard
IND-205th St. to 207th St.
IND 205th St. to Park Slope
IND Smith St. Yard to 207th St.
IND-Move Work Train to 207th St.
IRT-205th St. Yard to 88th St.
IRT Night Run-Pelham Bay Pk. to Smith St. Yd.
IRT Night Run-Smith St to 88th St
IRT-Kingston Ave. to Pelham Bay Pk.
IRT-Queens Plaza to 86th St.
Non-Default Consists or Rolling Stock Required in Activities: Download the following from
http://www.train-sim.com/ file library
IRT Lo-V Early Steinway Railcars - Download "irtlovem.zip" "MSTS IRT Lo-V Early Model Railcars"
Download includes 6 car consist required for activities.
IRT R-22 Grimey Railcars - Download "irt_r22g.zip" "MSTS IRT R-22 Grimey Railcars".
IRT Lo-V Railcars - Download "irtlovwm.zip" "MSTS IRT Lo-V Railcars"
IND R-4 Railcars - Download "R4IND.zip" "MSTS New York City Independent Subway R4 Railcars"
IND R-9 Railcars - Download "R9IND.zip" "MSTS New York City Independent Subway R9 Railcars"
MTA 5301 Subway Cars - Download "MTA_5300.zip" "MSTS MTA 5301 Subway Cars"
F1 IND download includes consist files needed for activities.
F1 IND Download also includes trainsets for the wagons which make up work train consists.
Add-In Track Sets: Download the following from http://www.train-sim.com/ file library
xtracks.zip "MSTS Xtracks V. 3.11 Standardized Edition" or any later version
newroads.zip "MSTS Newroads v2.3 Auto-installer" or any later version
Tsection.dat file used: Download the following from http://www.train-sim.com/ file library
tsection.zip "MSTS Standardized\Global\Tsection.dat" File Build 00025 or later
Payware or Freeware: Freeware
URL for More Information and Screenshots: None
Known Problems: Reduced frame rates in aboveground scenes and activities with heavy AI traffic. User must adjust sliders for better performance.
Where it can be downloaded: http://www.train-sim.com/ file library