Scrapped all of the track and landscape from the town of Nandurra on, (kept the town, grain siding, container yard etc), as the grades were just too steep to be prototypical. This new route has far more prototypical grades.
The old route, the two 81's really struggled to lift 15 cement hoppers up the grade. The new one, the only train to still fail to stop at the signal at the bottom of the hill are the cement trains, but thats only if they don't heed the "distant" and "landmark" signals preceeding it, calling for them to lower their damned speed! The AI managed to correctly stop a loaded container trip train, and an empty grain train. Stopping the Endeavour set in time was a no brainer, to say the least.



Apart from the township itself, I've only textured two boards out into the "beyond", and it includes a small sheep farm.
But yes, so far the prototypical grades have made the layout more visually appealing, as well as easier to work with AI trains on.
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The old route, the two 81's really struggled to lift 15 cement hoppers up the grade. The new one, the only train to still fail to stop at the signal at the bottom of the hill are the cement trains, but thats only if they don't heed the "distant" and "landmark" signals preceeding it, calling for them to lower their damned speed! The AI managed to correctly stop a loaded container trip train, and an empty grain train. Stopping the Endeavour set in time was a no brainer, to say the least.



Apart from the township itself, I've only textured two boards out into the "beyond", and it includes a small sheep farm.
But yes, so far the prototypical grades have made the layout more visually appealing, as well as easier to work with AI trains on.
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