Suggestions for good Australian-themed routes

[sawyer811]

Title basically says it. Recently, i went on a bit of a downloading binge and got a lot of Aussie content. the Wadalbavale line is good enough for my NSWGR needs (unless someone knows anything better) but what i need is a good route to run my VR content on. Preferably one with some length to it to give the rolling stock room to stretch its legs. I was just wondering what some of you would recommend.

this isn't a request for content per se, its just, as a yank who doesn't know the area, i don't know what's good and what's not. Any help would be appreciated. thanks in advance.

 

[Azervich]

Hey sawyer,

You might want to have a look over at http://www.victrainz.com.au/forum as some of us aussies have some routes under creation there

-Aaron

 

[misterchugg]

hi mate

i have aroute thats prototypical called caboolture to rockhampton

takes 3 hours to drive a limited express from one end to the other

also has a session with a lot of AI driving along with whatever you pcik to drive

its for 2006 but runs trouble free in 2010 with compatibilty mode turned on

cheers
ron

 

[ZecMurphy]

Not overly long, and not the best texturing, but the Healesville route on the DLS (under the userID number 1854) gives a reasonable 'test' for any VR loco...

Got two rather nasty grades (one each direction), with a tunnel at the top (one of the very few on the VR network!), and a 'run around' point at the current end of the layout.

The yard at Healesville was created from a copy of an original set of drawings (scale drawings, the actual drawing is about 2m long!), and is pretty much accurate apart from lacking the gentle curve through the platform (too many points to even try thinking about creating it by 'free-hand').