silverymo99
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As I wait while my old and new account is being worked on and sorted out, I have been working on the railroad' as the old song goes... some new Aussie Routes....and I only need to look back at TRS 12 and remember that when I installed it, I was lamenting tha lack of Australian Routes, and while we all remember from past versious of TRS, we had the Wadalbavale to Kurrah Bay layout, I have done some much smaller layouts that will not be so likely to strain our computers as we go to use them.... and most of these layouts I have kept down to around 20 baseboards, or even less, approx around 15-20 km's in real scale....
One of the problems I have found with TRS is the size and density of some of the content on those impressive but very heavy layouts like mojave and Drexel in TRS 10, an average laptop just can't cope with them.... I thought...What about some smaller layouts...starting with an Eyre Peninsula one, a British one, some small scale Aussie things, * Eyre Peninsula is in South Australia, and is over on the western side of the Spencer Gulf, down from Port Augusta, Whyalla, and extends down to Port Lincoln in the South, over to Ceduna in the far West, as you dirve on across to Perth (Western Australia). and it is shaped very much like 'India'.... for those members here from the USA and UK, and other parts of the world who are not familiar with South Australia.... and Whyalla is and has been the prime Iron Ore and Steel Producing location.
Eyre Peninsula is served with a narrow gauge line (3ft 6") line, that is NOT connected to the main national rail network, and that which is also used to rail grain to Port Lincoln, for export...
i got the idea when I saw those very small Victorian ones, in the DLS last year, that were only one or two baseboards in length, but were only 'layout starters'... and thought...now what about something in between those and the big layouts like Wadalbavale... these will be ideal!, because I have endeavoured to keep down the content to a mininum, while making them look just as nice and appealing....
One very good thing about Auran, is that we can come home, sit down and not have to think much to knock up a reasonably good new layout in a couple of days, get it so that as you drive around in your train, the scenery and environment looks like you would like to be in it, and 'get running'
with some trains in a very short time....try that with some of the other sims!....
For all the problems we members have here with the Auran TRS, with our CMP's and our DLS's being out...and all that we like to bemoan and despair over... it is still just so easy to just sit down, even if you are tired and weary, and don't feel much like it.... to decide what track you are going to use this time, place your tracks, your fences, power poles, what are you going to have in your towns?... what are your statioins going to be called?... and go to it....and as you go along, you can perfect it with signals, lineside huts, speed signs, etc...
I see there is a new MSTS like sim out, called Train Simulator 2013, and the old Version 1 or 2, was just very early, not very well developed, for at that time, there was not too much around in the train sim world, but this new MSTS 'Train Simulator 2013, from what I see of it online llooks alright too, and there is one called 'Raildriver' which may actually be the same thing... but I found myself being shunted into websites that didn't really tell me where I could order it in Australia, had no AUD$, prices... but I would like to try that and see if it's tracklaying method is much easier now than it was back in 2001, when the old TRS was still around.... I did also try EA' but I did not like it, and where do you start to try and work out how to lay tracks?.... with Auran. it is just so easy!....
I tried the EA sim, and was just left wondering where to start with laying any track in it, and very soon afterwards I gave it the toss.
One of the problems I have found with TRS is the size and density of some of the content on those impressive but very heavy layouts like mojave and Drexel in TRS 10, an average laptop just can't cope with them.... I thought...What about some smaller layouts...starting with an Eyre Peninsula one, a British one, some small scale Aussie things, * Eyre Peninsula is in South Australia, and is over on the western side of the Spencer Gulf, down from Port Augusta, Whyalla, and extends down to Port Lincoln in the South, over to Ceduna in the far West, as you dirve on across to Perth (Western Australia). and it is shaped very much like 'India'.... for those members here from the USA and UK, and other parts of the world who are not familiar with South Australia.... and Whyalla is and has been the prime Iron Ore and Steel Producing location.
Eyre Peninsula is served with a narrow gauge line (3ft 6") line, that is NOT connected to the main national rail network, and that which is also used to rail grain to Port Lincoln, for export...
i got the idea when I saw those very small Victorian ones, in the DLS last year, that were only one or two baseboards in length, but were only 'layout starters'... and thought...now what about something in between those and the big layouts like Wadalbavale... these will be ideal!, because I have endeavoured to keep down the content to a mininum, while making them look just as nice and appealing....
One very good thing about Auran, is that we can come home, sit down and not have to think much to knock up a reasonably good new layout in a couple of days, get it so that as you drive around in your train, the scenery and environment looks like you would like to be in it, and 'get running'
with some trains in a very short time....try that with some of the other sims!....
For all the problems we members have here with the Auran TRS, with our CMP's and our DLS's being out...and all that we like to bemoan and despair over... it is still just so easy to just sit down, even if you are tired and weary, and don't feel much like it.... to decide what track you are going to use this time, place your tracks, your fences, power poles, what are you going to have in your towns?... what are your statioins going to be called?... and go to it....and as you go along, you can perfect it with signals, lineside huts, speed signs, etc...
I see there is a new MSTS like sim out, called Train Simulator 2013, and the old Version 1 or 2, was just very early, not very well developed, for at that time, there was not too much around in the train sim world, but this new MSTS 'Train Simulator 2013, from what I see of it online llooks alright too, and there is one called 'Raildriver' which may actually be the same thing... but I found myself being shunted into websites that didn't really tell me where I could order it in Australia, had no AUD$, prices... but I would like to try that and see if it's tracklaying method is much easier now than it was back in 2001, when the old TRS was still around.... I did also try EA' but I did not like it, and where do you start to try and work out how to lay tracks?.... with Auran. it is just so easy!....
I tried the EA sim, and was just left wondering where to start with laying any track in it, and very soon afterwards I gave it the toss.
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