Line news July, 2007

• <29-Jul-2007>: webDotTrainSim is in catch-up mode - again:

• Ligne Grand Est version 1.11, (96.7Mb, 17-Jul-2007), by Michel Kmiec and friends. From the description on the download page at The-Train.de:This route covers some 600 miles (over 900 km) of railway itineraries, mainly double tracked or more, from Paris-Est to Epernay, Chalons-en-Champagne and Revigny-sur-Ornain (Paris-Strasbourg -Stuttgart-München & Paris-Saarbrücken -Frankfurt classical line), Paris to Champagne (brand new TGV Est plus ICE fast line), Chaumont-Chalons-Reims and Epernay-Reims to Charleville-Mezieres, then along the river Meuse (Maas) valley to Givet-Dinant (Belgium) and Sedan-Carignan, etc. The English version of the official TGV Est site has more information about the TGV portion of this route.
• Some downloads noticed at Train-sim:
• ATSF Glorieta Pass route, patch 4, atsfgpp4.zip (4.5Mb, 27-Jul-2007).
• Yard Cam Modifier v3.0, yrdcam30.zip (3.5Mb, 25-Jul-2007).
• Patrick Wise's Cajon Pass Route update, cpr1.zip (4.6Mb, 24-Jul-2007) and an enhanced track diagram, cajon4ag.zip (490Kb, 24-Jul-2007).
• Paul Gausden's Shape File Fixer tool, sfix1.zip (60kb, 23-Jul-2007), which checks uncompressed S files for potential problems that may crash MSTS.
• Lehigh & Hudson River Railroad route, lhr20.zip (170Mb, 21-Jul-2007) by Richard Shirey.
• Brandon Rusnak's fictional Metro Route, mroute1.zip (91Mb, 21-Jul-2007). For more information about the route, see Brandon's site.
• CSX W&A Subdivision route, csxwasub.zip (45Mb, 18-Jul-2007), by Jerry Conaway.
• South Africa Western Province Metro route, wp_1.zip (54Mb, 07-Jul-2007) and wp_2.zip (13Mb, 07-Jul-2007) by Joppie Saayman.
• Steam loco, Class A3 St Simon 60112 in BR green by Peter Harvey, 60113v2.zip (5Mb, 07-Jul-2007).
• Graphics15 have announced that Wupper Express 11 should be ready on August 26.
• Route Riter is now at version 7.0.38, RRit7_0_38upd.zip (1.0Mb, 08-Jul-2007).
• UKTrainsim has the New Zealand Lower Hutt Valley route and Lower Hutt Valley rolling stock.
• In answering a question about his version 4.8 locomotive physics parameter settings, Bob Boudoin gave an expansive explanation of the changes he makes to a loco's ENGine file - see this link on the Train-sim forums.

• <01-Jul-2007>: Some news snippets:

• The Train-sim library has Kent Weissinger' Saluda route, saluda.zip (65.6Mb, 26-Jun-2007) and the required Scaleroad textures, saludort.zip (22.8Mb, 27-Jun-2007).
• You'll want to check some posts on the Train-sim forums for more info if you have problems:
• Saluda Error (but now fixed with the availability of the Scaleroad textures in download saludort.zip (22.8Mb, 27-Jun-2007),
• Tripling Saluda, and,
• Saluda - Out-of-Range Sound Coordinates.
• Here's a link to where Norfolk Southern's Saluda Grade is located in a brief Live Maps collection.
• The MSTS Trains team spent a few days learning about driving a steam loco on the White Pass and Yukon Railroad in Skagway, Alaska; there's a photo album, too on Yard Limits.

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