What is your favorite "old school" route?

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magickmaker

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Remember the routes in the original Trainz? Maybe you had UTC, or even 2004. There were a number of built in routes that came with the game, and everyone tended to have their own favorites. As I look back over these and start on a project for my website, I thought I'd ask.

Which of the old school routes is your favorite and why?


Mine was the Alps route. I've actually been playing around with turning this into a narrow gauge route (Meter) for the RhB Croc and stock. I always loved that one, and now I'm doing what I can to make it better. So, which were your own favorites and why?

(also which would you love to see updated to 2010 standards? Can't do 2012 as I don't have it.)
 
I think mine was the Australian route, which seemed to begin nowhere, run through several stations, and end on a cliff edge! - can't remember the exact name. I had great fun in my 2004 days modifying this, so that it began somewhere instead of on a green baseboard by adding a station called 'Erinsborough' (I wonder where that name came from? - tongue firmly in cheek) and adding a main line to another station at the other end leaving the branch to a cliff as a sideline.

Ray
 
Rosworth Vale was mine, not to many industries and no over complicated track. But still a route you could make very busy.

Ray, which came first, the route or that program, whatever it was called.
 
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One of the rebuilds I'm testing around, is modifying the swiss route to feature actual stations, and two types of track. As the route is, it lends itself to this pretty well, Sure I'll have to add some more track to make a full two loops, but it looks pretty good so far.
 
ray_whiley said:
I think mine was the Australian route, which seemed to begin nowhere, run through several stations, and end on a cliff edge! - can't remember the exact name. I had great fun in my 2004 days modifying this, so that it began somewhere instead of on a green baseboard by adding a station called 'Erinsborough' (I wonder where that name came from? - tongue firmly in cheek) and adding a main line to another station at the other end leaving the branch to a cliff as a sideline.

Ray
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Robe River?
 
fran1 said:
Rosworth Vale was mine, not to many industries and no over complicated track. But still a route you could make very busy.

Ray, which came first, the route or that program, whatever it was called.
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This too is my favorite from the old days. Driving through the old English countryside made the route awesome.

John
 
Hands down the Highland Valley Routes. It was compact and featured what I wanted: A branchline, coal mines, a double-track oval around the bottom, an a small yard.
The second one was Natvander's Wadalbavale Line route. It was a 'branchline railroad', which I like. There were portals on each end of the route. Loops around the portals connecting both tracks on the double-tracked mainline, allowing for trains to run continously without having to control them all the time.
 
I love the "Wadalvabale Line" because it features a full-size real railroad, not a model railroad layout, with plenty of possibilities for traffic and also provides a fair challenge when driving in CAB mode. The local freight session in its sibling "Wadalvabale to Karrah Bay" started my interest in sessions and I still enjoy running it sometimes.
 
It has to be Robe River Iron for me, as noted it was one of the few "layouts" to give a prototype style route, good length of run and a few examples of early scripting with the voice talent of Mr Shaw (I believe).
 
i never really had one from the moment i learnt how to make my own layout's i didn't really bother with the built-in layouts as much
 
Which came first, the route or that program, whatever it was called.
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'Neighbours', set in Erinsborough, was first screened in Australia on 18th March 1985 and in the UK the next year. So the answer to the question is that the program is much earlier than Trainz. It's still on Channel Five daily for most of the year. The route I enjoyed adapting was indeed Queensland.

I must add that I enjoyed some of the other favourite routes mentioned especially Rosworth Vale for the UK experience and Wadalbavale for its variety. But I tried them all! Then, like boomer_aus_00 I began making my own routes, uploaded one (Dukes Denver, built-in content only) to the DS and since then have made a good few more - mostly unfinished because I get sidetracked! Then I discovered TACS/GMax and began creating assets, many of which seem to have been fairly successful. This now takes up most of my limited spare time and the routes I mentioned will probably stay unfinished! As I've said elsewhere, I really prefer creating scenes to driving trains. (Heresy?)

Ray
 
Robe River was the only real attempt to make a real life route in UTC or TRS2004. The route called "Queensland" fairly much crap nothing like Queensland at all. I think Erinsborough in Neighbours is down south Victoria or NSW not Queensland. Mostly make my own routes, but a great one I downloaded from trainzproroutes was Tehachapi. Driven this UTC route that many times I soon knew each speed change. Still stands up today as a great route to drive.
 
Northbay Country was my favorite route to run when I was younger. Visually it wasn't the best, but operationally, it was great.
 
The route called "Queensland" fairly much crap nothing like Queensland at all. I think Erinsborough in Neighbours is down south Victoria or NSW not Queensland.
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All very true, as I knew, but it didn't stop me from enjoying playing around with modifications before starting route building myself!

Fictitious Erinsborough is, I understand, a suburb of Melbourne.

Ray
 
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