Most Detailed Freeware Routes

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Eaglefan9727

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Hi Fellow Forum Members,

Yesterday, I bought Trainz 2010 Engineers Edition and I am waiting for it in the mail, But I am curious at what are the most detailed freeware routes that are available as I would like use one or possibly a couple of those routes as a tester for my PC.

My PC specs are as follows:

Intel(R) Core(TM) i5 CPU 650 @ 3.20GHz
8 GB RAM (Memory)
NVIDIA GeForce GT 220
DirectX 10
Running on Windows 7 64-bit operating system
PC system - Dell Inspiron 580

There is a certain quality that I am looking for when I am running sims and I hope I can get to that quality or close to it as possible on some of the most detailed route that are available for Trainz 2010.

If you can please let me know. It would be appreciated. Thanks in advance.

Eaglefan
 
Avery-Drexel has a lot, seems kind of a "standard" to compare others. I think the ECML routes are too though I haven't spent more than 5 minutes on them. The Modula City demo has a lot, though you will have to create a session for it, and is much more of a fantasy route.

ETA: Port Ogden & Northern is pretty good too, though philskene did an update from the installed version. And, going outside the built-in stuff, anything from Dermmy or Neilsmith749, or philskene will probably make you happy, to name but a few of the greats.
 
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RRSignal said:
Avery-Drexel has a lot, seems kind of a "standard" to compare others. I think the ECML routes are too though I haven't spent more than 5 minutes on them. The Modula City demo has a lot, though you will have to create a session for it, and is much more of a fantasy route.

ETA: Port Ogden & Northern is pretty good too, though philskene did an update from the installed version. And, going outside the built-in stuff, anything from Dermmy or Neilsmith749, or philskene will probably make you happy, to name but a few of the greats.
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Thanks...Are these route more detailed than the EK3 route? As of right now, That is the most detailed route that I have seen up to date.
 
RRSignal said:
Hmm, that's a tough one. I'd say A-D and maybe PO&N are at least on par with EK3.
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OK...I will test the Avery-Drexel and one of the ECML routes that comes with Trainz 2010 at full detail and see what happens. I will test it will 3 freeware locomotives that I will download JointedRail and will have 30 pigs/double stacks. I think that would be a good test and see how the PC handles it. Thanks.....

Does anyone else have any suggestions of good freeware detailed routes that are available?
 
Most detailed routes?

Those by gfisher for sure. They are extremely detailed. And require most of the content from the Download Station and then some.

It's been reported that a water cooled Cray managed to get frame rates on one of his routes into double figures. I think that may be an exaggeration. If you do try one of George's, tell us if you get more than 1 frame/sec, even with your rig.

Phil
 
Someone sent me a link to a website last night via private message that had a number of freeware routes, But I deleted the PM by accident. I think the website was like us--. If someone knows what website I am talking about. Can you please post the site. Thanks.....

BTW, Last night when I was going through the screenshots of the USA thread. I saw pics posted of the Santa Fe Gallup sub. Is that available, Work in progress, or a dead work in progress? Im also interested in ALL Santa Fe and Southern Pacific routes.
 
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EK3

Detailed can mean more than one thing. The route may be detailed but not very real looking. Its purpose is to present physical and operational challenges. The other, detailed route, has a greater emphasis on a real world appearance. It may or may not present operational challenges.

I have a problem since I cannot play, mess with or fool around with a route that does not look real. Trainz can be made to look quite like the real world and at the same time faithfully represent a facsimile of a real railroad. For the author to build a route is arduous but to also add natural assets presents and equal challenge.

My choice for the best looking route is East Kentucky-III. Very believable vegetation, tracks, roads, towns and topography. I keep TS10 on my system just to enjoy that route since it uses what are known a Trundra trees. While some disagree, to my eyes those trees, set in the dense forests of Kentucky, are the best available. Unfortunately, there is no compatibility mode in TS2012 so it does not work there. I use TS2012 for other things such as fiddling with industries and to keep abreast of the latest updates.

Well, you may have guessed that EK3 is my choice. Try it. The price is right. If you are looking for very complex routes that focus on industries there are many others that do that quite well. However, if you want to take a train through a deep valleys and small towns where you can imagine the fragrance of the complex vegetation EK3 is the one.
 
I have one coming out soon. Grafton Yard WV. It is a small one and only the yard. But it will be awsome!! I say...... 1 to 1 and a half months TOPS. Useing tundras track and trees.
 
Thanks boleyd....I rarely do any switching. I mainly just to mainline railroading from point A to point B. That is what I did when I was running MSTS unless I was working on the "Rattlesnake Desert" route. I enjoy running the main line more than anything else.
 
How about a route that is ONLY a main line? I refer to the Darjeeling Himalayan Railroad (DHR). It is a real railroad, situated in India, that we modeled for Trainz. You can get the files necessary from our site:

http://darjeelingtrainz.com/

And, to help you install it, you can to go this thread for helpful hints:

http://forums.auran.com/trainz/showthread.php?t=23748

The very first post will tell you the password to unlock the content files. Follow the thread for the order of file to install. Total content will be approximately 1.2Gb.

Bill
 
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Thanks for the info on that route. I will look into that in the near future.

Last night, I was doing some searching and I came across screenshots of 3 routes that I am interested in, But I am not sure if they are available or not. They are as follows:

Summer Lake http://www.ttbwrr.com/TTBWRR-TREES-IN-USE-14.htm
Tehachapi http://www.ttbwrr.com/TTBWRR-TREES-IN-USE-19.htm
North East Corridor http://www.ttbwrr.com/TTBWRR-TREES-IN-USE-24.htm

Also, Considering that I am new to Trainz. Lets say someone created a route for Trainz 2006 and I am running Trainz 2010. Would I be able to run the Trainz 2006 route or can I only run routes that were made for Traimz 2010?

BTW, Has anyone done Feather River for Trainz?

Thanks,
Eaglefan
 
Main link;

http://www.trainzproroutes.org/routemain.html

The tehachapi route;

http://www.trainzproroutes.org/teha.html

NEC is built into TS12, dunno if it's available elsewhere.

As for the other question;

"Considering that I am new to Trainz. Lets say someone created a route for Trainz 2006 and I am running Trainz 2010. Would I be able to run the Trainz 2006 route or can I only run routes that were made for Traimz 2010?"

It depends. I have some content that was made for the original Trainz that actually works in TS12, a lot of TRS2004 will work in TS2010, but since TRS2004 ignored many errors that TS2010 is fussy about some of it won't work without fixing it. For old routes that use a lot of old faulty content that means hours to days of repairing and replacing dependencies, for old routes that have error free dependencies they'll work out of the box. Only way to find out is try them and see, I'd say at least half the TRS2004 and earlier routes I've tried needed at least some fixing to run in TS2010 native mode.
 
Fully Realized...

:cool: The map is a general map that follows the route mile by mile from Shelbiana, Kentucky to just south of Towns, VA.

It is in .pdf format. I downloaded & printed the map, using both sides of the page & put them in a 3-ring binder.

I used the route map as the cover of the binder.
 
I'm a little surprised that noone has mentioned them (perhaps it's the distinctly american bias to the answers - although eaglefan is american too, so...)

But any of the polish trainz team's (http://www.trainz.org/ptt/index.html) routes show just how much detail can be put into a route. Unfortunately, they require a bit of schleping around the web to get all the dependencies, but they are very much worth it, especially Holopole, which is my go-to route for European style electric operations.
 
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