American Flyer

[sniper297]

Couldn't think of a name for my latest route, and since all the other trainsimmers think Trainz is a toy train set anyway, why not American Flyer.

Model railroad style routes are fun, but sometimes seem unrealistic, prototype routes are realistic but usually at the expense of fun. This is an attempt to combine the best of both, so it looks more realistic but is still fun to run on.



Starting in "Easton" yard the main goes south then turns west;



At Wye Knott, where there are branchlines going to the coal mine, a logging camp, and an oil field.



After running west it turns north along a river, then turns east to cross under the originating Easton yard.



Climbing up, turns south again, through an industrial area.



Turns west again at another wye, with an alternate route to the oil field, logging camp, and Wye Knott.



Haven't I seen this yard before? Going west for the second time, now crossing over the Easton yard.

[sniper297]

In the middle



Going west, mainline splits to north and south. North line is the shortcut;



To Sawyer, which has east/west lines to the south section and a single track tunnel ("The Strangler") to Weston.



That's another reverse loop, with another internal model railroad over/under style belt line that has assorted industries to switch.

[sniper297]

South section



A little more open with longer (but not too long!) mainline runs.



But a few single track tunnels to keep it interesting.



And a good sized yard.



And more switching areas.

How soon, final testing and debugging in progress now, probably by November.

[sniper297]

Dump lever

Few more since I got them uploaded, gotta dump them someplace.



Another view of the Weston belt line.



Easton yard.



South mainline.



Some city. That's probably what I'll call it, "Some", since I can't think of a name right now.

[MP36PH3S]

Nice route sniper-always loved the Trainz map editor-much easier than MSTS's

[rick]

I LOVE American Flyer!! I still have two fully working sets.
My brother had Lionel so I used to kid him about his third
rail. That was until I saw some trains in the city. 8-)

Rick

[sniper297]

Christmas 1956, me on the far left holding the Marx torpedo boat. Always preferred Gilbert American Flyer S gauge to Lionel, but any train is a good train.

[Boyerm25]

If you finished this by Halloween it would make a great birthday present from the Trainz world.

[kin__3]

Looking good.

[sniper297]

Might be this week, ran into one potential bug;

http://forums.auran.com/trainz/showthread.php?94696-Missing-icon-for-coal-unloader

Which might or might not be a problem, but rather than taking chances I replaced that coal unloader with a different one which does have an icon, testing that one now.

[mipman25]

Man, Jim, this route really makes me want to get back into Trainz. The fact that one of my friends showed me a site with just about every generic steam locomotive imaginable only makes me want to get back into Trainz more. I wish there was a Trainz-style route editor for MSTS. By that, I mean how you can easily select and place an object just by clicking it and then moving it to where you want it. Wouldn't life be so much sweeter that way?

[Boyerm25]

And then we would have a fifth known Trainzer from MN.

[sniper297]

I once had a hanover in East Hangover, I was in HS-75 deployed ashore at NAS Lakehurst in 78-79. Loved New Joisey in the summer, not so much in the winter. Seaside Heights was the best. Both TS2010 and TS12 have the same optimistic minimum specs, I'd make sure you meet or beat the minimum specs, and unless you're interested in multiplayer get 2010 since it has a lot more built in routes. Both are pretty cheap right now.

Well, senior moment, after changing out the power station for one that had an icon, I redid the coal drag schedule, then found a huge traffic jam after 2 hours of running. Fiddled with this that and the other, ran it again this time following the first coal drag through the entire run - and found what I did.

Eastbound schedule - drive via E 01, etc etc E 20, drive to DEST east.
Westbound freight - Drive via W 01, etc WF 06 etc W 20, drive to DEST west.
Westbound passenger - Drive via W 01 etc WP 06 etc W 20, drive to DEST west.
Coal drag - Load coal, drive via coal 01 etc coal 06 join mainline at W 05 follow freight route drive via power lead north drive to WESTON POWER unload drive via power lead south, rejoin the main and use the reverse loop, load schedule eastbound drive to DEST east.

Seems legit, but then I gave the starter coal drag the sequence load schedule coal, load schedule eastbound - so after executing all the special coal drag instructions, loading the eastbound schedule and following those, he ended up at E 20 with an additional load eastbound schedule, which made his next instruction drive via E 01 impossible to execute since he was on a one-way track going toward the east destination portal and couldn't back up. Which of course stopped all the trains behind him.



That should work better, only need to return once after dumping, not twice.

[sniper297]

Okeydokey, for better or worse uploaded, system map will be inside the file but since I don't know how to do them HTML thingies you'll have to edit in content mangler to see the map. Or just copy this;

[sniper297]

Forgot KUIDs, subject to the usual DLS delays look for it tomorrow or Sunday;

American Flyer,<kuid:522774:100852>
American Flyer Template 1,<kuid:522774:100864>