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Who can help me.Where can I download the model of the new Osaka Metro train？
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Wich new Osaka Metro train? I have some stuff on my website (30, 10, 20 and 60 Serieses), but none of those qualify as "new".
Besides that, here's the final variation of the Keisei 3700 Series - Chiba New Town railway's sole 9800 Series set!
Already available on my website!
This set, and with it the whole 9800 Series, was introduced by Chiba New Town Railway in 2017 to replace the last (out of two) of it's "original" 9000 Series sets, wich had entered service in 1984 under the company's predecessor - the Housing and Urban Development Pubblic Corporation - for the opening of the first section of the 2nd phase of the Hokuso Line, between Komuro and Chiba New Town-Chuo.
Originally, Chiba New Town Railway envisioned the replacement of both sets with a Keisei 3000 Series-derivative, but due to financial issues correlated to the nearly non-existant budget, the "company" was able to replace only one of the two sets - 9008F (at the hands of the sole set in the 9200 Series, 9201F - as mentioned, a strict derivative of Keisei's 3000 Series), wich was retired in March 2013.
To replace the other set, 9018F, after some time Chiba New Town Railway opted for a cheaper and more immediate option - renting a relatively older 3700 Series set from Keisei Railway, in the same vein as Hokuso Railway (Chiba New Town Railway's rolling stock user) had already been doing since 2003.
Set 3738F, built by Tokyu Car Corporation in 1994, was choosen by Keisei as the set to be rented to Chiba New Town Railway, and after being repainted in the latter's colours (light blue and yellow, based on the 9100 Series "C-Flyer" livery) but keeping Keisei's color arrangment scheme, and being reclassified as the sole set 9801F within the "9800 Series", Chiba New Town Railway's "new" train entered service on the 21st of March 2017, the day after 9000 Series set 9018F was retired.
Other than that, set 9801F differs very little from it's Keisei and Hokuso counterparts, with the only difference being the colour scheme.
As Chiba New Town Railway works - that is, essentially allocating a "pool" of rolling stock for Hokuso Railway to use - set 9801F since it's introduction, and as of today, has been used interchangeably with the rest of Hokuso Railway's fleet on Hokuso Line trough-services, running between Imba-Nihon-Idai station to Haneda Airport or Nishi-Magome Station, via the Keisei Network, Toei Subway Asakusa Line and Keikyu Railway.
Trivia #1
Having been built in 1994 (as set 3738F), set 9801F is just 10 years "younger" than 9000 Series set 9018 it had replaced, as the latter had been manufactured in 1984.
If we factor the relative age of the design (the first 3700 Series set had been introduced in 1991), the number thins by three more years, to seven.
And here's the actual final part of the Keisei 3700 Series pack - the Keisei 3400 Series, built in the 1990s using component from withdrawn AE-Series airport express trains!
Already available on my website!
By the very early 1990s, with works on Keisei's new Narita Airport station, built in the unused box reserved for the failed Narita Shinkansen project, as the perspective replacement for the then-Narita Airport station (today's Higashi-Narita), the company was also eyeing a rolling stock replacement on it's dedicated airport express "Skyliner" services.
These services had been operated since their start in 1978 by the ad-hoc intended AE ("Airport Express") Series, built by Tokyu Car Corporation and Nippon Sharyo between 1972 and 1978 as seven 6-car sets.
Depsite being the nominal flaghsip of Keisei Railway, already ten years after their introduction, the AE Series trains were already past their prime - their design was now already obsolete, and their relative lack of amenities (only a payphone had been installed on evry set in 1986) made for a stark contrast for the passengers coming form international flights - now accustomed to all sorts of fetaures and amenities on board planes.
Furthemore, they also had aged prematurely, with bodyshell wear being a major concern.
As such, Keisei opted to replace the whole AE Series fleet with a new airport express-dedicated series, wich would eventually become the AE100 Series, introduced in June 1990.
One month later, in July 1990, the AE Series fleet was rearranged as five 8-car sets, in order to maximise their capacity ahead of the opening of the new Narita Airport station (in turn two brand-new AE100 Series sets compensated for the reduction in size of the fleet).
The new Narita Airport station opened on the 19th of March 1991, and with it, the replacement of the AE Series kept going, until the whole fleet was replaced by the AE100 Series by summer 1993.
Keisei at that time also had another problem, this time with it's own commuter trains - with the opening of Hokuso Railway trough-services, it's fleet had been relatively stretched, with Keisei being unable to carry out it's planned replacements, as it didn't have enough replacement stock ready to cover all services.
At the same time, on post-withdrawal inspections, Keisei Railway found out that, while the wear of the bodyshells was a problem, wear on their underframe equipment was relatively minor, as despite the intense services, the AE Series had only raked up a relatively low mileage thruought it's short 15-year career.
Thus, as a quick and cost-effective way to prop up it's commuter fleet, Keisei opted to create a new series of commuter trains to be built using salvaged equipment from withdrawn AE Series sets.
Essentially, this involved the construction ex-novo of commuter-style bodyshells and correlated equipment and fittings (doors, interior seating and furniture, cabs, pantographs, air-conditioners) and then retrofit the necessary cars with the ex-AE Series equipment: DC traction motors, compressors, pantograhps and especially traction controllers - a shunt-chopper controller built by Toyo Denki.
This work was entrusted to Taihei Sharyo, a small manufactuer with wich Keisei already had a long relationship, as they had been their main "reference point" for rolling stock refurbishment and modifications.
The result was classified as the "3400 Series", a funny mix between the bodyshell and interiors of a 3700 Series (then Keisei's lastest commuter train), but relatively simplified (the tapered lower front portion of the 3700 Series design was changed for a much more simple straight vertical front, altough keeping the "angled-outwards" style), the equipment of withdrawn AE Series stock, and the appearance of Keisei's older generations of commuter trains such as the 3300 Series and earlier - this due to the conventional steel construction of the 3400 Series, something Taihei Sharyo had to do as the small company lacked experience in manufacturing involving stainless steel (as was done instead by more experienced manufactured for Keisei's 3700 Series and two predecessors - the 3600 and 3500 Series, as well as many other commuter trains for Japanese railways in general).
Five available AE Series sets meant a maximium of five 3400 Series sets that could be manufactured, and this was promptly done: set AE10 donated it's equipment to 3400 Series set 3408F, AE20 donated to set 3418F, AE50 donated to 3428F, AE60 to 3438F and AE70 donated to set 3448F (the two missing AE Series sets - AE30 and AE40 had already donated their intermediate cars to the other AE Series during their lenghtening to eight cars in summer 1990).
All five 3400 Series sets entered revenue service between January 1993 and September 1995, sharing the same assignments as the 3700 Series - services onto the Keisei Main Line between Keisei-Ueno and Keisei-Narita, or quadripartite trough-service with Hokuso Railway, the Toei Subway Asakusa Line and Keikyu Railway to Haneda Airport or Misakiguchi Station on the Kurihama Line, Keikyu's southernmost station.
All 3400 Series sets initially in a provisional six-car formation confined to local services on the Keisei network only, before recieving their seventh and eight car a few weeks later, enabling them to be fully used on all service levels and on trough-services.
Set 3408F was briefly loaned to Hokuso Railway between the end of May 2002 and early August of the same year to bridge the gap between the forced retirement of Hokuso's sole 7050 Series set, wich had reached it's "overhaul deadline" (and thus was no longer allowed to operate without undergoing a costly overhaul, a financially-nonsensical prospect) and the arrival of a proper replacement, wich came in the form of Keisei's 3700 Series set 3808F, loaned to Hokuso and reclassified as 7300 Series set 7808F.
Furthemore, thruought the early 2000s, a number of small modifications and and a range of minor retrofittings was carried out on the 3400 Series fleet: new service number indicators between July and Spetember 2002, new upholstery between August 2003 and October 2005, new flourescent interior lights between April and October 2004, new passenger information screens above the doors starting from 2005 and new pantograhps, replacing the square-scissor type ones inherited from the AE Series with standard modern single-arm ones between 2003 and 2005.
Since then, the service life of the 3400 Series remained relatively uneventful up until recent years - with the introduction of the new 3100 Series in 2019 on Narita Sky Acces Line services (running from Narita Airport via the Hokuso Line onto the Toei Asakusa Line and beyond on the Keikyu network), the 3050 Series sets that had been in use until then began to be cascaded to "standard" services on the rest of the network.
At the same time, with the 3400 Series' 40-year-old equipment now starting to actually show it's age, Keisei took the easy option of retiring the older trains in favour of cascading more 3050 Series sets to mainline services.
Set 3408F was the first 3400 Series set to be retired, on the 11th of August 2020, being followed by set 3428F on the 30th of September 2021 and 3418F on the 22nd of March 2023. As of the time of writing, only two sets are still officially "on the book" - 3438F and 3448F, but only one of the two is in operational status, and it's increasingly a rare sight, having been relegated to spare duties since August 2023.
In other words, the full retirement of the 3400 Series is imminent, especially as Keisei's new commuter train design, the 3200 Series, is about to enter service.
Prospects are relatively bleak for the 3400 Series, as second-hand purchase by a regional or rural railway company seems unlikely - as per consolidated practices, it is very likely that the whole fleet will be scrapped. There might be one residual chance for the preservation of one cab car within one of Keisei's depot, as it has been done with the only surviving "original" AE Series cab car - preserved inside Keisei's Sogo depot alongside other rolling stock.
Trivia #1:
The 3400 Series would end up being Taihei Sharyo's largest and most complex project - the company had never built a full train (only handling refurbishment and air-conditioning retrofitting fro Keisei) and would never - Taihei Sharyo exited the railway sector in 2001, opting instead to point to real estate instead - the company still exists today as a building management company under the interesting "Two Horses Company" name.
The site formerly occupied by Taihei Sharyo's plant is now Keisei Railway's Sogo Depot, in the southern outskirts of Narita, on the last leg of the Keisei Main Line.
Trivia #2:
Ironically, Hokuso Line services operated by 3400 Series sets invariably had to terminate at Imba-Nihon-Idai Station, as they were not cleared for operations onto the Narita Sky Access Line, thus preventing them from "returning" to Narita Airport in normal service (A 3400 Series set would be seen at Narita Airport exactly once - done under a special waiver and with a reserved group tour train).
Already available on my website!
By the very early 1990s, with works on Keisei's new Narita Airport station, built in the unused box reserved for the failed Narita Shinkansen project, as the perspective replacement for the then-Narita Airport station (today's Higashi-Narita), the company was also eyeing a rolling stock replacement on it's dedicated airport express "Skyliner" services.
These services had been operated since their start in 1978 by the ad-hoc intended AE ("Airport Express") Series, built by Tokyu Car Corporation and Nippon Sharyo between 1972 and 1978 as seven 6-car sets.
Depsite being the nominal flaghsip of Keisei Railway, already ten years after their introduction, the AE Series trains were already past their prime - their design was now already obsolete, and their relative lack of amenities (only a payphone had been installed on evry set in 1986) made for a stark contrast for the passengers coming form international flights - now accustomed to all sorts of fetaures and amenities on board planes.
Furthemore, they also had aged prematurely, with bodyshell wear being a major concern.
As such, Keisei opted to replace the whole AE Series fleet with a new airport express-dedicated series, wich would eventually become the AE100 Series, introduced in June 1990.
One month later, in July 1990, the AE Series fleet was rearranged as five 8-car sets, in order to maximise their capacity ahead of the opening of the new Narita Airport station (in turn two brand-new AE100 Series sets compensated for the reduction in size of the fleet).
The new Narita Airport station opened on the 19th of March 1991, and with it, the replacement of the AE Series kept going, until the whole fleet was replaced by the AE100 Series by summer 1993.
Keisei at that time also had another problem, this time with it's own commuter trains - with the opening of Hokuso Railway trough-services, it's fleet had been relatively stretched, with Keisei being unable to carry out it's planned replacements, as it didn't have enough replacement stock ready to cover all services.
At the same time, on post-withdrawal inspections, Keisei Railway found out that, while the wear of the bodyshells was a problem, wear on their underframe equipment was relatively minor, as despite the intense services, the AE Series had only raked up a relatively low mileage thruought it's short 15-year career.
Thus, as a quick and cost-effective way to prop up it's commuter fleet, Keisei opted to create a new series of commuter trains to be built using salvaged equipment from withdrawn AE Series sets.
Essentially, this involved the construction ex-novo of commuter-style bodyshells and correlated equipment and fittings (doors, interior seating and furniture, cabs, pantographs, air-conditioners) and then retrofit the necessary cars with the ex-AE Series equipment: DC traction motors, compressors, pantograhps and especially traction controllers - a shunt-chopper controller built by Toyo Denki.
This work was entrusted to Taihei Sharyo, a small manufactuer with wich Keisei already had a long relationship, as they had been their main "reference point" for rolling stock refurbishment and modifications.
The result was classified as the "3400 Series", a funny mix between the bodyshell and interiors of a 3700 Series (then Keisei's lastest commuter train), but relatively simplified (the tapered lower front portion of the 3700 Series design was changed for a much more simple straight vertical front, altough keeping the "angled-outwards" style), the equipment of withdrawn AE Series stock, and the appearance of Keisei's older generations of commuter trains such as the 3300 Series and earlier - this due to the conventional steel construction of the 3400 Series, something Taihei Sharyo had to do as the small company lacked experience in manufacturing involving stainless steel (as was done instead by more experienced manufactured for Keisei's 3700 Series and two predecessors - the 3600 and 3500 Series, as well as many other commuter trains for Japanese railways in general).
Five available AE Series sets meant a maximium of five 3400 Series sets that could be manufactured, and this was promptly done: set AE10 donated it's equipment to 3400 Series set 3408F, AE20 donated to set 3418F, AE50 donated to 3428F, AE60 to 3438F and AE70 donated to set 3448F (the two missing AE Series sets - AE30 and AE40 had already donated their intermediate cars to the other AE Series during their lenghtening to eight cars in summer 1990).
All five 3400 Series sets entered revenue service between January 1993 and September 1995, sharing the same assignments as the 3700 Series - services onto the Keisei Main Line between Keisei-Ueno and Keisei-Narita, or quadripartite trough-service with Hokuso Railway, the Toei Subway Asakusa Line and Keikyu Railway to Haneda Airport or Misakiguchi Station on the Kurihama Line, Keikyu's southernmost station.
All 3400 Series sets initially in a provisional six-car formation confined to local services on the Keisei network only, before recieving their seventh and eight car a few weeks later, enabling them to be fully used on all service levels and on trough-services.
Set 3408F was briefly loaned to Hokuso Railway between the end of May 2002 and early August of the same year to bridge the gap between the forced retirement of Hokuso's sole 7050 Series set, wich had reached it's "overhaul deadline" (and thus was no longer allowed to operate without undergoing a costly overhaul, a financially-nonsensical prospect) and the arrival of a proper replacement, wich came in the form of Keisei's 3700 Series set 3808F, loaned to Hokuso and reclassified as 7300 Series set 7808F.
Furthemore, thruought the early 2000s, a number of small modifications and and a range of minor retrofittings was carried out on the 3400 Series fleet: new service number indicators between July and Spetember 2002, new upholstery between August 2003 and October 2005, new flourescent interior lights between April and October 2004, new passenger information screens above the doors starting from 2005 and new pantograhps, replacing the square-scissor type ones inherited from the AE Series with standard modern single-arm ones between 2003 and 2005.
Since then, the service life of the 3400 Series remained relatively uneventful up until recent years - with the introduction of the new 3100 Series in 2019 on Narita Sky Acces Line services (running from Narita Airport via the Hokuso Line onto the Toei Asakusa Line and beyond on the Keikyu network), the 3050 Series sets that had been in use until then began to be cascaded to "standard" services on the rest of the network.
At the same time, with the 3400 Series' 40-year-old equipment now starting to actually show it's age, Keisei took the easy option of retiring the older trains in favour of cascading more 3050 Series sets to mainline services.
Set 3408F was the first 3400 Series set to be retired, on the 11th of August 2020, being followed by set 3428F on the 30th of September 2021 and 3418F on the 22nd of March 2023. As of the time of writing, only two sets are still officially "on the book" - 3438F and 3448F, but only one of the two is in operational status, and it's increasingly a rare sight, having been relegated to spare duties since August 2023.
In other words, the full retirement of the 3400 Series is imminent, especially as Keisei's new commuter train design, the 3200 Series, is about to enter service.
Prospects are relatively bleak for the 3400 Series, as second-hand purchase by a regional or rural railway company seems unlikely - as per consolidated practices, it is very likely that the whole fleet will be scrapped. There might be one residual chance for the preservation of one cab car within one of Keisei's depot, as it has been done with the only surviving "original" AE Series cab car - preserved inside Keisei's Sogo depot alongside other rolling stock.
Trivia #1:
The 3400 Series would end up being Taihei Sharyo's largest and most complex project - the company had never built a full train (only handling refurbishment and air-conditioning retrofitting fro Keisei) and would never - Taihei Sharyo exited the railway sector in 2001, opting instead to point to real estate instead - the company still exists today as a building management company under the interesting "Two Horses Company" name.
The site formerly occupied by Taihei Sharyo's plant is now Keisei Railway's Sogo Depot, in the southern outskirts of Narita, on the last leg of the Keisei Main Line.
Trivia #2:
Ironically, Hokuso Line services operated by 3400 Series sets invariably had to terminate at Imba-Nihon-Idai Station, as they were not cleared for operations onto the Narita Sky Access Line, thus preventing them from "returning" to Narita Airport in normal service (A 3400 Series set would be seen at Narita Airport exactly once - done under a special waiver and with a reserved group tour train).
Hi. all. I wish you all happy X-mass Holidays (I am working btw) but for those who are off from work or not working at all enjoy the time. 
Short update on my situation. I am still working on the Icarus Shinkansen Route
but only if I have energy enough which is often not. 
My work at a taxi company (callcenter) 
makes me sometimes very tired 
but I try to work here and there on the route. 
The route underwent another expansion which I did not share yet at all here. I plan to drop another POB version (Public Online Build) via my Google Drive. Also my custom buildings will go there (at the Google Drive)
At this moment I am debating with myself if I still want to share in on the Download Station because it seems more and more difficult to share something and then gets lots of messages that content from older versions (built in and payware) are missing. And people generally don't seem to know that you can delete old content and then resave the route without it. So I generally try to avoid those contents but it seems that a lot of items that are problematic come from the times that I started my route in TANE sp2 and those I can't even remove myself. Mostly textures though. We'll see.
But I am still happy building the route. I try to re-start the posting of some screenshots as the forum became a bit quiet. No promises though.
Short update on my situation. I am still working on the Icarus Shinkansen Route
but only if I have energy enough which is often not. My work at a taxi company (callcenter) makes me sometimes very tired but I try to work here and there on the route. The route underwent another expansion which I did not share yet at all here. I plan to drop another POB version (Public Online Build) via my Google Drive. Also my custom buildings will go there (at the Google Drive)
At this moment I am debating with myself if I still want to share in on the Download Station because it seems more and more difficult to share something and then gets lots of messages that content from older versions (built in and payware) are missing. And people generally don't seem to know that you can delete old content and then resave the route without it. So I generally try to avoid those contents but it seems that a lot of items that are problematic come from the times that I started my route in TANE sp2 and those I can't even remove myself. Mostly textures though. We'll see.
But I am still happy building the route. I try to re-start the posting of some screenshots as the forum became a bit quiet. No promises though.
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Thank you for the kind words Forester. Now I know why people often can't finish a route. That is because the newer Trainz Versions are coming out faster then you can finish a route. And Finishing a route is a lifework really.
But I try to upload a POB version somewhere this week.
About the next update on the Icarus Shinkansen v2.0. route which will be called Icarus Shinkansen 2.0. XmassPOB (POB= Public Online Build) I show today some really recent WIP. Therse areas are very unfinished but will still be explorable in the next update.
First a total map overview of the 2024 situation of my route: This is the map extension to the South. Notice the massive change of landscape that I have to cover. So this is very much WIP.
TRS19_2024_12_22_23_05_12_102 by pagroove, on Flickr
Now some VERY WIP areas.
There is now a whole new city called Katano. Here is a detailed map view of Katano:
TRS19_2024_12_22_23_08_38_535 by pagroove, on Flickr
Overview of Katanto (Canal City Ward). As this also is a very large city it is difficult to capture it in one shot:
TRS19_2024_12_22_23_18_59_543 by pagroove, on Flickr
At Katano the Icarus Shinkansen (ICS) branches of to a Mini Shinkansen system on broad gauge (I know not prototypical but I can't find double gauge track so I made it normal gauge) with a restricted maximum speed of 130 KM/h to the City of Sakura.
Sakura is a city South of Katano and lies on the coast of Lake Sakura overlooking Mt. Sakura. All these areas are really in the making but I just show them here for the upcoming Public Online Build.
Katano Station with SMS (Sakura Mini Shinkansen) branching off:
TRS19_2024_12_22_23_19_42_071 by pagroove, on Flickr
Another one. Here you can really see the branching off:
TRS19_2024_12_22_23_20_45_779 by pagroove, on Flickr
There is a real new depot called Katano Sakura Minami Depot So it is now possible to drive a route on the Shinkansen from Depot to Depot (Icaruko in the North and this new one in the South)
TRS19_2024_12_22_23_21_08_957 by pagroove, on Flickr
Katano Minami Statin on the Sakura Mini Shinkansen. As you can see this is really on the maps South Edge
TRS19_2024_12_22_23_21_15_709 by pagroove, on Flickr
Terminus of the Sakura Mini Shinkansen will be Sakura City on Lake Sakura overlooking Mt. Sakura a Volcano about 1200 meter rising from Sea Level. You see this area is complete WIP (Work in Progress)
TRS19_2024_12_22_23_21_27_748 by pagroove, on Flickr
On the North of the map I have rebuilt the Icaruko Depot Maintainance area as user Rowletmaster correctly pointed out that the tracks in that depot where too close to each other.
More will folow. I already uploaded the route I will post this week.
First a total map overview of the 2024 situation of my route: This is the map extension to the South. Notice the massive change of landscape that I have to cover. So this is very much WIP.
TRS19_2024_12_22_23_05_12_102 by pagroove, on FlickrNow some VERY WIP areas.
There is now a whole new city called Katano. Here is a detailed map view of Katano:
TRS19_2024_12_22_23_08_38_535 by pagroove, on FlickrOverview of Katanto (Canal City Ward). As this also is a very large city it is difficult to capture it in one shot:
TRS19_2024_12_22_23_18_59_543 by pagroove, on FlickrAt Katano the Icarus Shinkansen (ICS) branches of to a Mini Shinkansen system on broad gauge (I know not prototypical but I can't find double gauge track so I made it normal gauge) with a restricted maximum speed of 130 KM/h to the City of Sakura.
Sakura is a city South of Katano and lies on the coast of Lake Sakura overlooking Mt. Sakura. All these areas are really in the making but I just show them here for the upcoming Public Online Build.
Katano Station with SMS (Sakura Mini Shinkansen) branching off:
TRS19_2024_12_22_23_19_42_071 by pagroove, on FlickrAnother one. Here you can really see the branching off:
TRS19_2024_12_22_23_20_45_779 by pagroove, on FlickrThere is a real new depot called Katano Sakura Minami Depot So it is now possible to drive a route on the Shinkansen from Depot to Depot (Icaruko in the North and this new one in the South)
TRS19_2024_12_22_23_21_08_957 by pagroove, on FlickrKatano Minami Statin on the Sakura Mini Shinkansen. As you can see this is really on the maps South Edge
TRS19_2024_12_22_23_21_15_709 by pagroove, on FlickrTerminus of the Sakura Mini Shinkansen will be Sakura City on Lake Sakura overlooking Mt. Sakura a Volcano about 1200 meter rising from Sea Level. You see this area is complete WIP (Work in Progress)
TRS19_2024_12_22_23_21_27_748 by pagroove, on FlickrOn the North of the map I have rebuilt the Icaruko Depot Maintainance area as user Rowletmaster correctly pointed out that the tracks in that depot where too close to each other.
More will folow. I already uploaded the route I will post this week.
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On the North of the map I have rebuilt the Icaruko Depot Maintainance area as user Rowletmaster correctly pointed out that the tracks in that depot where too close to each other.
TRS19_2024_12_22_23_09_21_484 by pagroove, on Flickr
More will folow. I already uploaded the route I will post this week.
TRS19_2024_12_22_23_09_21_484 by pagroove, on FlickrMore will folow. I already uploaded the route I will post this week.
So here it is just in time for Christmas 
Icarus Shinkansen v2.0 WIP POB Xmass24version release
TRS19_2024_12_22_23_24_33_565
by pagroove, on Flickr
Download link @ my Google Drive
DO NOT Redistribute the Link or FILES without asking permission.
drive.google.com
Installation instuctions
Before start:
This route is for TRAINZ 2019 Platinum Edition Build 105100. The following instructions should work in that version.
If you have TRAINZ 22 or another higher build I cannot for sure say the following instructions works the same.
Also realize installing and getting a route to work in Trainz is actually what I consider something for more advanced Trainz Users (sadly it shouldn't be but it is) so before asking me for help search the forums
So I am in no way responsible if something goes wrong. Therefore, always make sure you have backed up your own routes/Trainz versions and/ work before proceeding.
For a Trainz Veteran the installation should be faily staightforward. Just don't forget to also install the included Building pack. These consist of my own custom buildings which makes the route unique.
Continue at your own risk.
Phase 1. Getting the File and unzipping
1. Download via the above download link you will receive a .zip file.
2. Unzip the file with your favorite unzip program, I recommend unzipping it in a separate folder first. Also, make sure the original folder structure is kept. I don't provide instructions how to unzip a file you can search in on the internet
3. Go to the folder where you have unzipped the files and you see 2 directories. One called 'Route'and the other one 'Building Pack'
WARNING the Building pack is needed otherwise some key buildings will be missing. These are simple Sketch up Buildings. However on a modern system these should not really slow down anymore. My computer is old already by today's standards and I can run it just fine.
ALSO: I provided the building pack .cdp 2 times due to an error but you just can choose all CDP's in both folders and import them
IMPORTANT CONSIDERATION:
4. Now before you start up Trainz please consider a Download Station First Class ticket. This route has 2782 dependencies so without a First Class Ticket wit will take VERY LONG. You are Warned
Phase 2. IMPORTING THE CDP Files into Content Manager
5. Start Trainz
6. From the start menu, choose Manage Content. Content Manager will Launch
7. In Content Manager choose File> Import Content Files > Navigate to the folder where you just unzipped the Route and Building Pack directories. Navigate to the Route folder and choose the Icarus Shinkansen v2.cdp and the JP PAG Building Pack.cdp. Pressing shift while clicking on the files chooses to import multiple files. After selection, open them.
8. Content Manager will import the files
9. If you don't see the files after import, then press 'Today'from the filter menu. This will display the imported files of today
Phase 3 Getting the DEPENDENCIES from DLS and making the missing dependency list as short as possible
3A Identifying the missing dependencies:
1. Now you have the route, it is probably red and it says missing dependencies. No Panic
2. Right-Click on the route file and choose from the drop-down menu : List Dependencies
3. Now content manager displays all dependencies. To sort them out, click in the status balk till you see them sorted out in such a way that it displays the files that are needed to be downloaded from the download station.
4. Download all files that display: Available on Download Station There are a lot
5. Still, even after downloading all, you are left with a lot of unknowns and a few Payware items.
Having the following Payware pre-installed makes this list shorter:
I believe these routes came pre-installed with Trainz 2019 Platinum
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C&O Hinton Division
ECML Kings Cross Edinburgh
Kickstarter Country
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After you made the list as short as possible you will still see missing stuff (it is not possible to get rid of all unknowns, but you can remove missing items from the route in surveyor, just follow along>
3B Erasing the missing depencies from the route and saving your own version of the route
Now start Trainz (following instructions are for TRAINZ 2019 as I don't have Trainz 22 I don't know if it still works the same). Also you could still enoy the route with missing content if you are unsure on how to do the following but the route will have a red symbol in the menu which could irritate you. Anyway let's continue
1. Start Trainz and Go to routes and find your just installed route. Should be Icarus Shinkansen v2.0. (I don't provide instructions on how to find routes in Trainz. for that I assume you know how use Trainz)
2. Click on the route so that a yellow border displays that you have chosen the right route and then from the bottom of the screen choose "Edit Route" This will open Surveyor.
3. Let the route load. As this is a big route, a first time you open a route, this can take a while. When the route is loaded, you see the landscape.
4. In the top menu from Surveyor, click on the icon that look like a Toolbox (3rd menu)
5. From the pull down menu choose: "Delete Missing Assets" Now Trainz start deleting missing and faulty content. It will display a lot of messages which you can just ignore.
6. Repeat the above step, so choose "Delete Missing Assets" a second time and let it complete
Now the route should be cleaned from missing stuff.
7. Now from the first menu choose save as or you can press CTRL +S
Choose a clear name:
For Example: Icarus Shinkansen 2 Personal Version
After saving, Choose Exit Surveyor
7. Do not delete the original Icarus Route which stays with a red symbol near it indicating that the original route is missing dependencies instead now for driving an making sessions choose your own just save route which should have no missing dependencies
I have done the above process many times with success. Now of course somewhere should be something missing, but as this is such an enormous route I never could find missing areas. It is certainly not critical stuff. The original missing stuff where mostly textures which where built in TANE SP3 Where I build my route in.
Enjoy!
Icarus Shinkansen v2.0 WIP POB Xmass24version release
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Download link @ my Google Drive
DO NOT Redistribute the Link or FILES without asking permission.
Icarus Shinkansen v2 POB Xmas24 build – Google Drive
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Installation instuctions
Before start:
This route is for TRAINZ 2019 Platinum Edition Build 105100. The following instructions should work in that version.
If you have TRAINZ 22 or another higher build I cannot for sure say the following instructions works the same.
Also realize installing and getting a route to work in Trainz is actually what I consider something for more advanced Trainz Users (sadly it shouldn't be but it is) so before asking me for help search the forums
So I am in no way responsible if something goes wrong. Therefore, always make sure you have backed up your own routes/Trainz versions and/ work before proceeding.
For a Trainz Veteran the installation should be faily staightforward. Just don't forget to also install the included Building pack. These consist of my own custom buildings which makes the route unique.
Continue at your own risk.
Phase 1. Getting the File and unzipping
1. Download via the above download link you will receive a .zip file.
2. Unzip the file with your favorite unzip program, I recommend unzipping it in a separate folder first. Also, make sure the original folder structure is kept. I don't provide instructions how to unzip a file you can search in on the internet
3. Go to the folder where you have unzipped the files and you see 2 directories. One called 'Route'and the other one 'Building Pack'
WARNING the Building pack is needed otherwise some key buildings will be missing. These are simple Sketch up Buildings. However on a modern system these should not really slow down anymore. My computer is old already by today's standards and I can run it just fine.
ALSO: I provided the building pack .cdp 2 times due to an error but you just can choose all CDP's in both folders and import them
IMPORTANT CONSIDERATION:
4. Now before you start up Trainz please consider a Download Station First Class ticket. This route has 2782 dependencies so without a First Class Ticket wit will take VERY LONG. You are Warned
Phase 2. IMPORTING THE CDP Files into Content Manager
5. Start Trainz
6. From the start menu, choose Manage Content. Content Manager will Launch
7. In Content Manager choose File> Import Content Files > Navigate to the folder where you just unzipped the Route and Building Pack directories. Navigate to the Route folder and choose the Icarus Shinkansen v2.cdp and the JP PAG Building Pack.cdp. Pressing shift while clicking on the files chooses to import multiple files. After selection, open them.
8. Content Manager will import the files
9. If you don't see the files after import, then press 'Today'from the filter menu. This will display the imported files of today
Phase 3 Getting the DEPENDENCIES from DLS and making the missing dependency list as short as possible
3A Identifying the missing dependencies:
1. Now you have the route, it is probably red and it says missing dependencies. No Panic
2. Right-Click on the route file and choose from the drop-down menu : List Dependencies
3. Now content manager displays all dependencies. To sort them out, click in the status balk till you see them sorted out in such a way that it displays the files that are needed to be downloaded from the download station.
4. Download all files that display: Available on Download Station There are a lot
5. Still, even after downloading all, you are left with a lot of unknowns and a few Payware items.
Having the following Payware pre-installed makes this list shorter:
I believe these routes came pre-installed with Trainz 2019 Platinum
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C&O Hinton Division
ECML Kings Cross Edinburgh
Kickstarter Country
>
After you made the list as short as possible you will still see missing stuff (it is not possible to get rid of all unknowns, but you can remove missing items from the route in surveyor, just follow along>
3B Erasing the missing depencies from the route and saving your own version of the route
Now start Trainz (following instructions are for TRAINZ 2019 as I don't have Trainz 22 I don't know if it still works the same). Also you could still enoy the route with missing content if you are unsure on how to do the following but the route will have a red symbol in the menu which could irritate you. Anyway let's continue
1. Start Trainz and Go to routes and find your just installed route. Should be Icarus Shinkansen v2.0. (I don't provide instructions on how to find routes in Trainz. for that I assume you know how use Trainz)
2. Click on the route so that a yellow border displays that you have chosen the right route and then from the bottom of the screen choose "Edit Route" This will open Surveyor.
3. Let the route load. As this is a big route, a first time you open a route, this can take a while. When the route is loaded, you see the landscape.
4. In the top menu from Surveyor, click on the icon that look like a Toolbox (3rd menu)
5. From the pull down menu choose: "Delete Missing Assets" Now Trainz start deleting missing and faulty content. It will display a lot of messages which you can just ignore.
6. Repeat the above step, so choose "Delete Missing Assets" a second time and let it complete
Now the route should be cleaned from missing stuff.
7. Now from the first menu choose save as or you can press CTRL +S
Choose a clear name:
For Example: Icarus Shinkansen 2 Personal Version
After saving, Choose Exit Surveyor
7. Do not delete the original Icarus Route which stays with a red symbol near it indicating that the original route is missing dependencies instead now for driving an making sessions choose your own just save route which should have no missing dependencies
I have done the above process many times with success. Now of course somewhere should be something missing, but as this is such an enormous route I never could find missing areas. It is certainly not critical stuff. The original missing stuff where mostly textures which where built in TANE SP3 Where I build my route in.
Enjoy!
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PhilChorusch01
Well-known member
@AlexMaria I recently downloaded some Japanese trains from your website and while driving in DCC mode the trains drive super slow, even super slow for AI to drive them.
I thought it was because your 8 notches and 32 notches Motor and Trailer enginespec files are setup wrong as I have discovered that "Example: Trailers using enginespec for Motor" and "Motors using enginespec for Trailer" I had corrected this and I still have not resolved the problem while driving super slow in DCC mode and AI trains barely move
In hard control mode, the trains drive fine. I really hate using hard controls in Trainz, really confusing setup on the keyboard! Even when I have setup the trains in hard control mode for the entire session AI trains still drive super slow, this does not happen with any trains made by Rizky_Adiputra as they all work perfectly and AI trains drive normally. It's all your trains that drives super slow.. I only know about your Japanese trains as for other trains that you have on your website.. I have no knowledge if the problem continues over to those as I have not downloaded them
Also, I cannot access your website for 3 days! It tells me that your website is down..
I thought it was because your 8 notches and 32 notches Motor and Trailer enginespec files are setup wrong as I have discovered that "Example: Trailers using enginespec for Motor" and "Motors using enginespec for Trailer" I had corrected this and I still have not resolved the problem while driving super slow in DCC mode and AI trains barely move
In hard control mode, the trains drive fine. I really hate using hard controls in Trainz, really confusing setup on the keyboard! Even when I have setup the trains in hard control mode for the entire session AI trains still drive super slow, this does not happen with any trains made by Rizky_Adiputra as they all work perfectly and AI trains drive normally. It's all your trains that drives super slow.. I only know about your Japanese trains as for other trains that you have on your website.. I have no knowledge if the problem continues over to those as I have not downloaded them
Also, I cannot access your website for 3 days! It tells me that your website is down..
PhilChorusch01
Well-known member
Does anyone know if there is a fully completed version of the Tsurumi line? I found the Tsurumi line 2 nights ago and downloaded v3.60 which isn't completed. But what I have discovered is that the Tsurumi line can merge up to the Nambu Branch just with minor fixes here and there to align the track in some places. I was hoping if there's a fully completed Tsurumi line available so I could merge it with the Nambu Branch, if anyone knows!
PhilChorusch01
Well-known member
@SiemensNexas100 Stop acting like a child Chris and leaving angry emoji's on my post. There's a reason why I stopped talking to you!
I've been working on a Tsurumi Line route for some time now, but it isn't in any shape to be released. it is also in "model railroad" format with sidewalls and such. I've named it "Gojiro Bay" as it has some spots that are pure fantasy and not present in real life.
Bill
Bill