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Hi all, i have recently been looking at the feasability of using software like JMRI to control operations on a Trainz layout, as Trainz already supports numbered/named rollingstock, its farily straight forward to set the route up in JMRI as if it were a model railway... at present the biggest issue i've run into is that once you've set up a session, in trainz you then can't run trains, save and go back to editing the route without the session reverting to the start, which means that you would have to reset JMRI's car locations each time... (which makes the whole thing un-achievable) that said i seem to recall they are currently working on a way to jump more seamlessly between driving and edit mode which would solve that problem and make it much easier... so my point is perhaps we can make longer routes more interesting by setting up a more sophisticated car forwarding system
I can think of nothing more boring than driving the Australian-"Great Long Straight"
The Trans-Australian Railway crosses the Nullarbor Plain of Australia from Port Augusta in South Australia to Kalgoorlie in Western Australia. It includes a 478-kilometre (297 mi) stretch of dead-straight track, the longest straight section of railway in the world. Earlier passenger services on the route were known as the Great Western Express.
How in the world would one make that long ride interesting ?
After building several very long routes, I find the scenes: "Here comes that same old train again, that we saw a couple hundred times previously, boring" !
Real railfanning the EBT RR used to be great fun, and riding the 5 mile long trip kept your interest span.
But a 300 mile long route gets kind of boring, and monotonous, after about 20 minutes, even when riding in the cab, controlling the handles, or riding on a seat inside a railcar, one gets quickly lulled away to sleep.
But a 300 mile long route gets kind of boring, and monotonous, after about 20 minutes, even when riding in the cab, controlling the handles, or riding on a seat inside a railcar, one gets quickly lulled away to sleep.