Line news August, 2003

Led by CC 72000, our train from Lyon Perrache arrives at Grenoble.

• <31-Aug-03>: Not a great deal to report today, but those thinking about the Rhone-Alpes route should take advantage of some activities (Culoz-Lyon in charge of a TGV PSE, Annecy-Grenoble, Chambery-St Andre-Le-Gaz, and Lyon-Grenoble in charge of a Sybic heading a consist of TER Corail carraiges), the list of required rolling stock (as a Word doc in MaterielRA.doc) and list of consists (consists_RA.zip) at site.voila.fr/actmsts.

• <30-Aug-03>: The Australian Addons site has Russell Beer's Vinelander carraige set, AU_VineSleepr_MSTS1_Setup.exe (390kb) and a VR AX passenger set, AU_vrAX_MSTS1Setup.exe (446kb). At Train-sim.com Jim England has packaged several of his repaints, such as the Star Trek - The Next Generation set of twelve freight wagons, sttngset.zip (4.9Mb, 29-Aug-03), and the Rock Band Boxcar set of fourteen wagons, rockbset.zip (5.8Mb, 29-Aug-03).

• <29-Aug-03>: A set of one of web•TrainSim's favourite locos makes its appearance in the Train-sim.com library today, namely the FS Trenitalia E402b, fs_e402b.zip (11.2Mb, 28-Aug-03). These electric locos have their own cab and sounds. Since the package comes with a self-installer, web•TrainSim is unsure where the sounds are installed; refer to E402p, E402a loco cab and Suono Italiano sound files for any help if you need it. The E402b cab is by Pek and his site is worth a visit from time to time. There are a couple of activities, one on the Blue Mountains route, WCR R711 Fantrip, r711_fan.zip (152kb, 28-Aug-03), and the other on the Canton Railroad, Summer Day, can04aug.zip (1.1Mb, 28-Aug-03). The 'roos haven't begun hopping out onto the road around web•TrainSim's area yet, but you can certainly put them into Phil Skene's Dragon Mountain Pass route with Larry Mullett's add-on, d_to_k.zip (84kb, 28-Aug-03).

• <28-Aug-03>: Phil Skene has posted instructions to solve the problem on his Dragon Mountain Pass route at the Lucky Strike mine, dmp_au5.zip (2kb, 27-Aug-03). As well at Train-sim.com, Bob Pickering has a preview list of rolling stock for his activities on NEC 4, necsspp1.zip (262kb, 27-Aug-03). web•TrainSim has tidied up some info about the Rhone-Alpes route. That hasn't helped web•TrainSim, however. After making a couple of small changes to his Lyon to Grenoble activity, he ran up the back of a TGV Reseau set. As they say, Back to the drawing board.

• <27-Aug-03>: Bill Hemb has contributed more classic U.S. trainsets: GM Train Of Tomorrow, gmtot.zip (13.3Mb, 26-Aug-03), Chesapeake & Ohio George Washington, cogw.zip (16.1Mb, 26-Aug-03), Baltimore & Ohio Capitol Limited, bocptllt.zip (15.6Mb, 26-Aug-03), and Wabash Blue Bird, bluebird.zip (14.7Mb, 26-Aug-03), to the Train-sim.com library. Some people have had troubles on the Dragon Mountain route near the Lucky Strike mine - see this post at the Train-sim forum for a solution. web•TrainSim has added his Newark-Philadelphia activity on NEC 4 and Chambery-Amberieu and Lyon Perrache-Grenoble activities on Rhone-Alpes to the downloads section. web•TrainSim has found the AI dispatcher/controller doesn't handle the AI traffic very well from the Amberieu direction and wants to make a couple of changes to the Lyon-Grenoble activity. However, if you've just downloaded the Rhone-Alpes route, at least you have some paths so you can do some exploring.

CC 72000 on a test run from Culoz towards Bellegarde (Rhone-Alpes route). Shame you can't hear Belphegor's sounds in action!

• <26-Aug-03>: After installing Belphegor's CC 72000 sound set, soundcc72000.zip (3.13Mb, 01-Aug-03), web•TrainSim climbed into the cab and heard all sorts of beeps, burps, alarms, whistles and bells; the external sounds are amazing, too! As well, there seems to be a short somewhere in the wiring. An addendum to yesterday's news on the Rhone Alpes route: there are activities with this route but no consists so that makes it a bit hard (that was the case with the copy which web•TrainSim received). A quick and dirty solution is to move all the ACT files out of the route's Activities folder except one activity and then use ConBuilder to substitute rolling stock you have. The point is you need at least one activity present to be able to Explore the route. Try site.voila.fr/actmsts for some other activities and browse the Simtrain-fr.org forum for further assistance. web•TrainSim will upload a couple of activities tomorrow to help out. Rich Garber has put together his Everything You Wanted to Know about Canton Railroad and Were too Afraid to Ask - see this page at his site.

• <25-Aug-03>: Pierre Porcheron's TER Rhone Alpes route, which web•TrainSim has been driving around on for a while, is now available for download in reasonable-sized chunks (four 20Mb files and one 16Mb file in WinRAR compressed format) from PLM.MSTS. Another French route is Ligne du Grand Sud Ouest by Philippe Rubato and it can be downloaded from this page at PLM.MSTS (three 18Mb files and one 8Mb file in WinRAR compressed format). At the Train-sim.com library, there's Gary Ball's candy-liveried N.S.W. class 48s, 48candy.zip (3.4Mb, 24-Aug-03); Henry Triplett has a couple of sets of activities for NEC 4, AEM7 Default Activities Series, aem7-def.zip (145kb, 24-Aug-03), and The Washington IRT Subway Series, wash-irt.zip (179kb, 24-Aug-03); Dick Cowen has brought an overworked Canton RR F3A back to life, ctnf3501.zip (1.8Mb, 24-Aug-03); and Peter Nijmegen has contributed a Dutch Seaview Railways Golsdorf 380, dsv_g380.zip (5.5Mb, 24-Aug-03), and nineteen freight wagons for the Dutch Seaview route, dsvcargo.zip (6.9Mb, 24-Aug-03). And, phew, web•TrainSim has started tuning up his BB 67439 loco.

• <24-Aug-03>: The Dragon Mountain Pass Railway route (the route with attitude and a good diversion from the usual) is now available from the Train-sim.com library in dialup-friendly sized files: dmp_au1.zip (6.1Mb, 23-Aug-03), dmp_au2.zip (3.9Mb, 23-Aug-03), dmp_au3.zip (6.2Mb, 23-Aug-03) and dmp_au4.zip (8.7Mb, 23-Aug-03); maps are in dmp_mp.zip (974kb, 23-Aug-03). Joseph Fortier's MBTA route (Boston, MA, to Providence, RI) is now at version 5; it's in four files, starting with mbta_v51.zip mbta_v51.zip.zip (30Mb, 23-Aug-03). Peter Nijmegen of the Dutch Seaview Team has contributed crowd noise from the fans of the Ajax Amsterdam and Feyenoord Rotterdam teams, dsvsoc.zip (573kb, 23-Aug-03).

• <23-Aug-03>: Phil Skene has posted on the Train-sim.com forum that his Dragon Mountaon Pass Railway route has been updated with Australian scenery and he's set the route somewhere in northern New South Wales. He's adapted the landcape to what we Australians are familiar with (plenty of brown and some winter green) and done away with winter snow (only some of us see, or have seen, snow). Jim England has repainted two of Mark Toland's 250 tonne maintenance-of-way cranes, one in Canadian National Red, cnredcrn.zip (884kb, 22-Aug-03), the other in Canadian National Orange, cnorgcrn.zip (868kb, 22-Aug-03). Also at the Train-sim.com library you'll find another sound set by Michael Sinclair, a Heavy Rain Replacement, rain.zip (2.3Mb, 23-Aug-03), designed to be in step with your loco's speed. web•TrainSim will be keeping an eye on the Italien 83 site for a Z 23500 trainset, predicted for September.

• <22-Aug-03>: At Australian Add-ons for MSTS, you'll find that all Australian carriages have been updated with more realistic physics. In particular look for Richard Lauder's package of thirty different Victorian carriages, AU_TotalvicPass_MSTS1_Setup.exe (4.57Mb), from work originally done by Michael Thompson. At Train-sim.com, Matthew Davis has a repaint of James Brook's S-class diesel in West Coast livery, wcr_s.zip (1.3Mb, 21-Aug-03). web•TrainSim noticed a couple of new additions at TheTrain.de: a Class 60033 diesel loco in British Steel livery and the Cityshuttle S-Bahn trainset.

Z 20900 Transilien - on special duty - has just departed Aix-Les-Bains and is heading to Culoz.

• <21-Aug-03>: A quiet day at the Train-sim.com library compared to yesterday with some texture files by Dick Cowen for Canton RR rolling stock to give them a weathered look, ctn-wthn.zip (5.0Mb, 20-Aug-03), and updates to the CSX CW44AC packs, starting with pack number 1, csxac_11.zip (618kb, 20-Aug-03) to fix problems with the couplers. web•TrainSim has a few small fixes for the CC 6500 locos and the Z 20900 trainset using data from specs at Rail 21.

• <20-Aug-03>: More classic U.S. trainsets have appeared in the Train-sim.com library from the work of Train Artisan, Dick Cowen and Bill Hemb. New York Central's 20th Century Limited began the New York-Chicago service in late 1902, promoted as a 20-hour train for the 900 mile trip. Travel time was reduced to 18 hours in 1905 for a number of years. Bill Hemb has contributed two diesel hauled models, one pre-World War II, nyc20the.zip (16.4Mb, 19-Aug-03), and the second, post-WW II, nyc20th.zip (18.2Mb, 19-Aug-03). Dome cars were introduced on many U.S. trainsets to attract custom and one of the most unique was the Skytop with its large expanse of glass on the Milwaukee Hiawatha, hiawatha.zip (16.8Mb, 19-Aug-03). Others in the library from today include the Frisco/MKT Texas Special, txspcl.zip (16.9Mb, 19-Aug-03), the Erie Lackawanna Phoebe Snow, elphobsn.zip (14.8Mb, 19-Aug-03), and the Lousivlle & Nashville Humming Bird, lnhmgbd.zip (17.7Mb, 19-Aug-03). Trains Magazine have produced a special edition, Dream Trains, detailing the U.S. streamliners 1946-1956, and their winter 2002 edition of Classic Trains was devoted to the 100th anniversary of the 20th Century Limited, Broadway Limited and Golden State Limited.

Double-deck EMU Z20900 trainsets are being used to move the ski crowds until the new TER 2N trainsets become available.

• <19-Aug-03>: The first of five files of Bruce Bridges' Conrail Indianapolis Line route (updated to version 2) is in the Train-sim.com library (the remainder should be there tomorrow). Note that activities for the earlier version won't work on version 2. A number of alternative splash screens are appearing, the latest being the Burlington Northern Splash Screens, bn.zip (11Mb, 18-Aug-03) by Scott Fitzgerald. Pete Abrams has another freight pack, this one being eight boxcars in Kansas City Southern livery, kcspk1.zip (5.9Mb, 18-Aug-03). Jim England has painted two New York Central CPA24-4 locos into grey passenger livery, nycebgry.zip (2.3Mb, 18-Aug-03). The RER SNCF Z 20900 and ZR 20900 trainset in Transilien livery pictured above is available from TrainSimFrance.net in download packz20900.zip (18.6Mb) in the Automotrice section (sounds from Belphegor, by the way).

We come across a ski train consist of V2N carriages not far from Amberieu.

• <18-Aug-03>: Belphegor has another sound set, this time for 9200-25100-25200-16000 electric loco types, soundbb9200.zip (4.35Mb, 17-Aug-03) - ear plugs are not supplied in the download. At the Train-sim.com library, Mike Simpson has an update to Route Riter that fixes the problem with non-English versions of Windows, rrit4212.zip (6.4Mb, 17-Aug-03). Stew Winston has another Westrail loco, P-class #2011 in yellow livery, p2011.zip (638kb, 17-Aug-03). Jeff Link and Frederick Dreany have a series of New York City Transit railcars, such as IRT R-36 Redbirds, irt_r36.zip (2.8Mb, 17-Aug-03). Nick Aust has contributed the Harzquer und Selketalbahn narrow gauge route, hqb11rte.zip (18.8Mb, 17-Aug-03), along with rolling stock required for the included activities, hqb11tra.zip (16.6Mb, 17-Aug-03).

Our CC 6539 departs Chambery on the Rhone-Alpes route. On our left, the train for Lyon via St Andre Le Gaz departs with a consist of Rhone-Alpes liveried carriages.

• <17-Aug-03>: At the Train-sim.com library, you'll find Bruce Bridge's Conrail Indianapolis Line route version 2 in five files along with documentation in ci20_doc.zip (502kb, 16-Aug-03). Steve Spivey has contributed two sets of 50 foot boxcars, rboxset1.zip (7.4Mb, 16-Aug-03) and rboxset2.zip (6.3Mb, 16-Aug-03), each zip containing photos and separate zip files for each boxcar to make it easy to choose what you want to install. Michael Vone has a utility, Object Rotator 2, objrot2.zip (3.9Mb, 16-Aug-03), for advanced route builders to accurately work with objects in the MSTS Route Editor. Australian Add-ons for MSTS has Paul Gausden's model of New South Wales Government Railways D50 class 2-8-0 steam locomotive #5270, AU_nswgrD50_MSTS1_Setup.exe (1.5Mb, 11-Aug-03). Train-Magazine.com has a RENFE Talgo 4 Pendular trainset, talgo4v2.1eng.exe (4.29Mb).

• <16-Aug-03>: The Train-sim.com library is back with plenty of offerings. Jim England has another of his repaints, this time a Texas & Pacific E8 A/B set, e8tpab.zip (941kb, 15-Aug-03). Bill Hemb continues to produce classic trainsets such as the Illinois Central City Of Miami, iccom.zip (15.5Mb, 15-Aug-03) and E6A/B sets such as those in Union Pacific livery, upe6ab.zip (5.8Mb, 15-Aug-03). Richard Haagsma has converted Alex Hall's SD40-2 cab to night view, sd-nigth.zip (3.4Mb, 15-Aug-03). The FS ETR500 Politensione trainset mentioned yesterday at AllFreeNet.it is also available from Trenomania.it.

• <15-Aug-03>: There's not a lot to report on at the Train-sim.com library today, probably due to the blackout but you'll find the Chicago and North Western freight pack number one consisting of nine 50 and 60 foot boxcars, cnwpk1.zip (5.9Mb, 14-Aug-03). At AllFreeNet.it there's Salvatore Valese's ETR 500 Politensione trainset (5.4Mb, 13-Aug-03) and a cab for the E636 riqualificata (1.7Mb, 13-Aug-03). There was a message from Mike Simpson on the UK Trainsim forum a day or two ago regarding the use of Route Riter V4.2.0 on non-English language versions of Windows when uncompressing .S and .W files, decimal notation not being handled correctly for different countries.

BB26000 at the head of a consist of V2N carriages crosses the Rhone near Amberieu on the Rhone-Alpes route.

• <14-Aug-03>: The Dragon Railroad Company has released two more locos, a Dash 9, dr_dash9.zip (1.0Mb, 13-Aug-03), and an 0-8-0 steam shunter, dr_080.zip (3.1Mb, 13-Aug-03). There are other New South Wales 3801 splash screens, nsw38s.zip (1.3Mb, 13-Aug-03) and nsw3801.zip (2.1Mb, 13-Aug-03) as well at the Train-sim.com library. In finding more about the Rhone-Alpes route, web•TrainSim came across a number of helpful sites, including SNCF's (in French), and discovered that Lyons has a unique metro system. Now he's waiting for a clever designer to release TER 2N NG Z 24500 EMU and X 75500 DMU trainsets.

• <13-Aug-03>: The Train-sim.com library has a patch for NALW's NEC pack #1 v1.0, necpac14.zip (2.2Mb, 12-Aug-03), to activate external carriage sounds and fix other small errors. There's an Australian 3830 MSTS splash screen, nsw3830.zip (1.6Mb, 12-Aug-03), and Bill Cline continues to contribute more 40 and 50 foot boxcars, such as one in Gulf Mobile & Ohio livery, gmo21332.zip (1.5Mb, 12-Aug-03).

BB 25202 pulls out of Lyon-Perrache station on the Rhone-Alpes route.

• <12-Aug-03>: The North American (Virtual) Locomotive Works start today's news with the release of some real electric locos and rolling stock for the Northeast Corridor. NEC pack #1 v1.0 includes different variants of the AEM loco and forty-seven passenger cars - it's download necpak01.zip (58.7Mb, 11-Aug-03). For more details and screenshots, see a couple of posts on the Train-sim forum. Also in the Train-sim.com library, there are more classic trainsets, such as the Rock Island Rocket, rirckt.zip (17.4Mb, 11-Aug-03), along with E6A/B and E7A/B loco sets in various liveries, such as Seaboard Air Line, sbde7s.zip (3.6Mb, 11-Aug-03). There are a couple of Canton RR additions, namely a caboose, ctn-cbse.zip (988kb, 11-Aug-03), and a wagon fix, ctn-fred.zip (17kb, 11-Aug-03). Austin Seely has put together a large collection of various Milwaukee Road locos and rolling stock, for example a pack of SD40-2s, mrsd402m.zip (3.7Mb, 11-Aug-03). AllFreeNet.it has RENFE 274 and DB E03-001 locos, as well a cab for the E444 Tartaruga. And, to finish, here's a small multilingual lookup table for common MSTS terms.

• <11-Aug-03>: At Train-sim.com there's an update to Savostyanov Oleg's Russian electric loco VL60_698, vl60_upd.zip (7kb, 10-Aug-03), and a set of track diagrams for Canton Rail, cntn_trk.zip (13kb, 10-Aug-03). web•TrainSim has kept himself busy making some changes to the ENGine files of BB25202 (25kV) and BB25202 (1500V) locos.

• <10-Aug-03>: The Train-sim.com library contains an updated version of the New South Wales signal pack by Colin Cribb, nswsgnl1.zip (1.3Mb, 09-Aug-03). As well, there's Canton Activity Pack number 3 which will take you back in time, ctnap3v1.zip (177kb, 09-Aug-03), and Bob Pickering's NEC 4 super pack summer version preview list, necsspp.zip (2.5kb, 09-Aug-03) so you can prepare your rolling stock for his upcoming activities. web•TrainSim has been making some updates to the A-TER X 73500 DMU, and has found that the TER-SNCF site in French has plenty of information, including timetable brochures and maps for all lines and regions.

• <09-Aug-03>: At the Train-sim.com library, Robert Fontaine has his Genesis P42DC tan and grey night cabviews, p42tann.zip (739kb, 08-Aug-03) and p42greyn.zip (675kb, 08-Aug-03), with a handy shifter utility to change between day/night cabs. As well, Robert as a couple of engine modifications for his Genesis P42DC loco, amt4upd.zip (49kb, 08-Aug-03), to adjust horsepower and smoke level. Dick Cowen and Rich Garber have contributed Canton rolling stock sets 3A and 3B, ctneqm3a.zip (12.5Mb, 08-Aug-03) and ctneqm3b.zip (13.4Mb, 08-Aug-03), while J. Mannion has contributed a Hints and Kinks tutorial as an overview of modeling and texturing programs for MSTS, ghak1.zip (1.5Mb, 08-Aug-03). Finally, Richard Haagsma has an Acela night cab, ac-night.zip (2.7Mb, 08-Aug-03), and Savostyanov Oleg has contributed a model of Russian electric loco VL60-698, vl60_b2.zip (2.5Mb, 08-Aug-03).

• <08-Aug-03>: Route Riter version 4.2.00, rrit4200.zip (6.3Mb, 07-Aug-03), is now available, either from the Train-sim.com or UK Trainsim. Many of the new features will most useful to route builders. While browsing through the Train-sim.com library, you'll also notice the Dragon Railroad Company SD90MAC loco (there must be some big loads to move), dr_sd90.zip (837kb, 07-Aug-03), the Lake City route version 1.1 in three dialup-friendly files (lc1.zip, lc2.zip and lc3.zip, 9.1Mb, 6.6Mb and 7.8Mb), and Mike Oster's Stunning Thunderclaps sounds pack, tcrack4.zip (14.3Mb, 07-Aug-03). At TrainSimFrance.net, there's Bruno Terrien's superbe SNCF BB 25202 loco, SNCF BB 25202.exe (8.6Mb, 03-Aug-03) with patch, SNCF BB 25202 patch.exe (443kb, 03-Aug-03). A map that web•TrainSim wanted for some research into the Rhone-Alpes region was right under his nose in his My Pictures\Maps folder - some moons ago he'd visited the Trainspotting - European Railways site and had saved a map from there.

• <07-Aug-03>: Stew Winston has a set of seven Western Australian XU25 grain hoppers, xu25pack.zip (5.2Mb, 06-Aug-03), at Train-sim.com, and Bill Hemb has two more trainsets, the Florida East Coast Gulf Stream, fecglfsm.zip (17.3Mb, 06-Aug-03), and Atlantic Coast Line Champion, aclchamp.zip (16.8Mb, 06-Aug-03). Both these trainsets include E6As and stainless steel carriages. The Trenomania.it library has a repainted E656 163 in its Locomotiva section (5.47Mb). web•TrainSim has been kindly posted the Rhone-Alpes route so he's on the Net learning some geography and what all the different train services are in that region of France.

• <06-Aug-03>: At the Train-sim.com library web•TrainSim noted the following downloads: Volcano Island route version 2, volcisv2.zip (20.9Mb, 05-Aug-03); a tutorial by Michael Sinclar, A Complete Guide To Forests And Trees, treetut.zip (74kb, 05-Aug-03); start up screens depicting MSTS Spanish rolling stock, sp-start.zip (6.4Mb, 05-Aug-03); updates to the Canton RR GP9s, e.g., ctgp9615.zip (5.1Mb, 05-Aug-03), using Jim Ward's front-coupler fix and other improvements; and more freight cars by Bill Cline, such as Tropicana #13062 50 foot refrigerator car, tropref5.zip (1.3Mb, 05-Aug-03). AllFreeNet.it has a new route, Fantasia Italiana in Terra Austriaca (209Mb download). The FS E412 loco mentioned yesterday has a cab available at Trenomania.it (see Cabina per locomotiva: E412 in the site's Cabina section).

• <05-Aug-03>: Mark Smith and Gavin Mclaughlan have contributed more New South Wales locos, firstly a number of candy-liveried class 80s, in various states of cleanliness, such as 8015, 8015.zip (1.0Mb, 04-Aug-03), and some class 49s, including 4906 in the red terror livery, 4906.zip (1.0Mb, 04-Aug-03). There is a set of class 80 sounds, too, 80snd.zip (776kb, 04-Aug-03). Bill Cline has been producing a number of 40 foot boxcars, such as one in Seaboard Air Line livery, salbox01.zip (1.5Mb, 04-Aug-03). Finally there's another loco to add to your MSTS Italian railways rolling stock, Electric Politension loco E412, fs_e412.zip (8Mb, 04-Aug-03), whose 6000kW is used on heavy cargo trains on the Brenner line between Italy, Austria and Germany.

• <04-Aug-03>: There are some new downloads at AllFreeNet.it: a new 3D model of steam loco FS GR750, Serge Carrey's BB 26000 CORAIL (keep an eye on his traction page for a cab for this loco), diesel loco FS D445 1123, a patch to electrify the Innsbruck - St. Anton route, and a new route, Catania - Siracusa, by Franco Caruso. Belphegor has new sounds for the CC 72000 and 65500 locos. At Train-sim.com, there's a New York Central GP40 Pack, nyc_gp40.zip (2.6Mb, 03-Aug-03), and a number of different liveried 40 foot boxcars, such as Florida East Coast, fecbox01.zip (1.5Mb, 04-Aug-03). Please note the warning put up at both the Train-sim.com and UK Trainsim forums from Okrasa and David Beach regarding the danger of installing the Dutch RET Metro route - it contains a non-standard tsection.dat file which will destruct any other route being developed in your MSTS installation.

• <03-Aug-03>: Jon Davis has modelled Western & Atlantic Railroad's classic steam loco, The General, as it appeared from 1855 until 1864. The archive also includes box car, baggage car and coach, in gnrl1862.zip (4.6Mb, 02-Aug-03) at Train-sim.com. As well, Jim England has produced a pack of ten Katy SD40-2s, mktsdpk1.zip (1.9Mb, 01-Aug-03) and Kurt Kaminer has packaged a Chicago Transit Authority 2400 Series Rapid Transit pack, cta2400.zip (4.3Mb, 03-Aug-03), with custom cab and sounds. At Australian Add-ons for MSTS, you'll find Craig Walton's Mornington Tourist Railway route, AU_MTR2_MSTS1_Setup.exe (4.4Mb, 02-Aug-03), and the Coal to Newcastle route by Peter Newell, AU_Newcastle_MSTS1_Setup.exe (24Mb, 01-Aug-03), the latter specifically requiring NewRoads, NewRoads_EndUser_MSTS1_Setup.exe (2.7Mb, 29-Jul-03).

• <02-Aug-03>: A couple of downloads that web•TrainSim noticed at Train-sim.com include the CSX CW44AC pack number 4, csxac_4.zip (2.8Mb, 01-Aug-03) (note that NALW's GE Megapack V2 is required) and a Dash 9 night cab, d9-night.zip (3.9Mb, 01-Aug-03) by Richard Haagsma. Keep an eye out for Robert Fontaine's night cabs for his P42DC locos, in both tan and grey, in the next day or two. Bernard Barthalay's explanation of how to get better GE sounds is finished and web•TrainSim tried his P42DC SMS files today in Amtrak P42DC #802 - compressor, dynamic braking, brake squeal and rumble all add to the loco's engine sounds when you're outside the cab.

Robert Fontaine's Amtrak Phase IV GE Genesis loco #802 at Baltimore Penn.

• <01-Aug-03>: Stew Winston has contributed WestRail P Class diesel loco #2006, .zip (, 31-Aug-03), to the Train-sim.com library. And for those looking for models of famous passenger sets, such as the Southern Pacific Golden State, spgoldst.zip (15.6Mb, 31-Jul-03), or the Rio Grande Ski Train, rgskitrn.zip (23.2Mb, 31-Jul-03), won't be disappointed with Bill Hemb's renditions. Bernard Barthalay has kindly contributed work he's been doing on Better sounds for the GE C44-9W; SMS files and documentation will be available for download in a day or two.

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