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Thanks duskeyduskey.

That is alot of work. I've been meaning to ask you just how do you get the AI trains to run in trains 19? The set up is way different form Trainz12 when it comes to that.

Hey I tried running a train on this route but it kept derailing at the switches. I then noticed that there wern't any Switch points. Are the turnouts funtional or static as this is a diorama and all.

Railshuttle said:

Hey I tried running a train on this route but it kept derailing at the switches. I then noticed that there wern't any Switch points. Are the turnouts funtional or static as this is a diorama and all.

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I forgot to connect a spline on one of the junctions and yes the switches are there, I just used invisible ones

Railshuttle said:

That is alot of work. I've been meaning to ask you just how do you get the AI trains to run in trains 19? The set up is way different form Trainz12 when it comes to that.

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As you didn't use Quotation reading by the message this question was meant for me. Running AI Trainz is not that difficult in Trainz 19. But the changed interface makes it a bit hidden. But setting up the sessions is actually easier as the driver screen runs a bit better. Still I would like to have a routing module in an ideal world. It would be far easier if you could put routes for AI Trains in point and click style (working in the same manner as the Transport Fever games).

But yeah it is tiring but in the end I like the modularity and the possibility of making it your own in Trainz better.

Just for information, JIRC 223 Series now back on websites :
visit : jirctrainz.com/shop/shop-in

new upload

Just bought both sets. Nice to have the official train on the Hanwa route. Guess we need that Airport Express train next.

I've made a small EF81 pack and the DE10 cold version. They're now available on my website!

Let me know if there's anything missing. The EF81 light attachment points are not 100% correct, I had some issues with making those attachmentpoints. But I guess that's not a huge problem.

Not trainz but some pics I took over the past few weeks...



Myogadani


Ikebukuro



Itabashi


Oku

pagroove said:

As you didn't use Quotation reading by the message this question was meant for me. Running AI Trainz is not that difficult in Trainz 19. But the changed interface makes it a bit hidden. But setting up the sessions is actually easier as the driver screen runs a bit better. Still I would like to have a routing module in an ideal world. It would be far easier if you could put routes for AI Trains in point and click style (working in the same manner as the Transport Fever games).

But yeah it is tiring but in the end I like the modularity and the possibility of making it your own in Trainz better.

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Thanks for answering pagroov. This would be my first time making a session on trainz19 now that I've completed rehabbing the Blue Line and I want to test the AI trains on it. I'm trying to find where on the driver do you click to make him or her stop at stations. HAven't found it. Could you go into detail on how to get the drivers to go to point A to B and beyond?

@ Duskeyduskey very nice photos. Thank you for bringing us some Real life photos from Tokyo Area.
@ Railshuttle. I see what I can do. But currently the temperatures are a little on the high side to sit at lengths behind a computer so I will try to make a little guide (illustrated) when the temperatures drop) In the meanwhile may I suggest you search up some Youtube videos or do a Google search on this subject?

Icarus Shinkansen v2.0. Building Snapshot 14

It is available from my Google Drive here:

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1-mLHkWqHa7mWdUwQFNm9u-Rxfh2fMMpx?usp=sharing

What is new in this snapshot?

- Ongoing Enhanchements on the TIF (Trans Icaruco Freight Line)

Scenery and line enhanchements + a new (yet unnamed station)

- Ongoing work on scenery on the East of Mount Icaruko in the Airport Valley
- Connected the TIF with the ICM (Icarus Main line) for through running
- Major scenery work on Minami Icaruko ward
- Kitakitabiko tram has now station names and can be automated by AI (but some bugfixing still going on as the trams miss the stop)
- Work on Oga to Shin Hanyo section. did almost all caternary. Made fences and did major scenery work
- Textures added in Oga to Shin Hanyo Section
- Almost completely finished Hamada Onsen. Added many details
- Introduced naming convention in Oga to Kitabiko Section:

------------> Example>>>
The Stations along the IML (Icarus Main Line) will be numbered from South to North. So first station is 1 and then it increases. This means that if you instruct an ai train from North to South you have to start at the highest station number and then count back:

Example Station number on on the IML. In this Example the station is a Hirochi Station so an industry ( which you will find in the indsustry list)



Now the Hirochi stations have 4 tracks so for local trains to stop at those tracks you have to make track markers. The naming convention of the track marker (which you will find in the track marker list) of the same station is:


Furthermore you have the track markers which also will be counted from South to North. The goal of this markers is making sure express trains stay on express routes and local trains on local routes. Also it makes it possible to switch from local to express or vice versa.

The counting will be incremental. So a track marker that is located further North has a higher number. I am planning to make the Northbound and Southbound systems separated but I first have to do the whole line South to North and then reverse the direction and make sure that the North to South direction is named appropriately.

Example of track mark called track points (TP's)


As the naming convention is not yet complete on the whole route the menu's can still be a mess. I hope it will be solved when the naming convention is rolled out on the whole Icarus Main Line (IML)

Important:

Before proceeding make sure the following inbuilt content of TRS 2019 is installed as the route uses some inbuilt content:

You have to have the following routes of Patinium pre-installed:

- Content Samples
- Serbino Lake
- Kickstarter Country 2 (will be not a problem as this is pre-installed)

First class DLC (optional) will come in handy and is nowadays not that expensive. (you can try downloading without but there are about 3000 assets in this route so it may take a while)

Installation instructions step by step

VERY Important: This update can break your sessions if you have a session running ai trains in the Oga to Shin Hanyo Sessions. Make backups of your own adapted route first and/or adapt your sessions. Read about the naming convention in the what's new section (above)

If you have changed earlier versions of my route to your own standards make a .cdp backup of your own version or rename it to for example: "Icarus Personal version''


1. Install either the TANE CDP (from the TANE .CDP map) or the TRS2019 PLT CDP (from the TRS2019 PLT map) by either dragging the .cdp file in content manager or by choosing import .cdp
2. Make sure to choose : list dependencies (an option under the right mouse button by clicking on the file) Then sort the dependencies by status and download all missing dependencies that are available to download so you won't have missing dependencies.
3. Even click on the unknown ones and try to download them anyway (they won't be downloaded by just in case)
4 Start TRS2019
5 Choose to Edit the route
6 From the menu click on delete missing assets and proceed (ignore long lists with warnings, just proceed)
7 Save with CTRL+ S and rename the route so a clear name. An example of a clear name could be Icarus Shinkansen v2.0. New Personal edion (or something like that)
8 After this you have stil the original route with missing dependencies and your own route with no missing dependencies.
9 For driving choose your own version

--- For the next DLS Release -- I will try to hunt for unkowns and missing deps and try to erease them from the route.



As Always Work in progress:

Some screenshots:

Nature along the Shinkansen South of Oga. The Ogadake can be seen and the city of Oga:

[/URL]TRS19_2022_07_24_11_46_53_797 by pagroove, on Flickr[/IMG]

Minami Oga station and current progress scenery at Oga city:

[/URL]TRS19_2022_07_24_11_48_34_714 by pagroove, on Flickr[/IMG]

EF210 travelling Southbound with a containter load bound for Kadoma (not on this map)

[/URL]TRS19_2022_07_24_12_07_00_072 by pagroove, on Flickr[/IMG]

KitaKitabiko Tram shot 1:

[/URL]TRS19_2022_07_24_11_54_40_990 by pagroove, on Flickr[/IMG]

KitaKitabiko Tram shot 2:

[/URL]TRS19_2022_07_24_11_57_41_669 by pagroove, on Flickr[/IMG]

Hamada Onsen mini-shōtengai (商店街) and Station:

[/URL]TRS19_2022_07_24_11_49_57_645 by pagroove, on Flickr[/IMG]

Along the Trans Icaruko Freight line (TIFL)

[/URL]TRS19_2022_07_24_11_59_42_762 by pagroove, on Flickr[/IMG]

Minami Icaruko Ward with Trans Icaruko Freight Line and Yet unnamed Terminal (Must come up with a good official name) and Icaruko Metro Line 1.

[/URL]TRS19_2022_07_24_12_00_04_056 by pagroove, on Flickr[/IMG]

Link to full album on Flickr:

https://flic.kr/s/aHBqjzZhE5

Nice pics pagroov!! The one with the mini-mall stood out to me. (I'm guessing it was the KFC shop on the lower right.) I hope things have cooled down over there. It feels like the whole world has caught on fire out here. I'll try to see if I can find out how to make an ai session over the internet in the mean time. Take care and stay cool!!

DD51 7351レ (Fictional)

Time for my favorite shots on the Icarus Shinkansen route






I would have to play Trainz less this week as I am in a heat warning for 4 to 5 days. Normally when I am in a heat warning, I play early in the morning or late in the evening. But looking at the temperatures is going to be close to 100 fahrenheit, That's too warm for me to use my computer

Finally, after a couple weeks of work, here's my lastest pack - following the 10-300 Series of the Toei Shinjuku Line - the 10-000 Series!


All 12 variants available in this pack - from left to right: 4 variants of the prototype set (1971-1978 Mita Line test runs, 1978-Late '80s, Late '80s-1992 and 1992-2004), three variants for the 1st-2nd batch trains (1978-Late '80s, Late '80s-1992, 1992 to 2005), three variants for the 3rd/4th/5th batch sets (1986-1992, 1992-2009, 2009-2017) and one variant each for the 7th batch (1992-2017) and 8th batch (1997-2018).

Already available on my website!

In the early 1970s, Tokyo Metropolitan Government's Bureau of Transportation had just opened the first section of it's second line, the Mita Line, and had just completed designing work for it's third line, the Shinjuku Line, wich was to run east-west under Tokyo, connecting Edogawa and Sumida to Shinjuku station and beyond, on trough-services with the Keio Line.
Construction works on the Shinjuku Line begain in May 1971, and shortly after, Toei ordered an initial prototype of what would've been the trains of the new line. The reason of such an early order is clear - Toei planned to use the newest technologies available at the time, primarily the brand-new revolutionary chopper control (wich had just began to be applied on a full scale in Tokyo, with TRTA's 6000 Series, wich began revenue services that year) and since most of these were extremely new, Toei wanted to have as much time as possible to test them and iron-out eventual issues before the completion of the construction works, thus avoiding any possible delay.

An initial 4-car prototype set was manufactured by Nippon Sharyo in 1971 and delivered to Toei later that year, wich classified it as the "10-000 Series" (after the Shinjuku Line's official "Line No.10" planning name).
The new train was derived from the Mita Line 6000 Series, especially regarding the stainless steel bodyshell design, but fetaured countless improvements, making it far more modern - among other things, it was fitted with an afromentioned armature chopper control, a prototype air-conditioning unit on each car, one-handle "T"-shaped master controllers (derived from the then brand new Tokyu 8000 Series, introduced only two years earlier in 1969!) and world's first electronic passenger information displays!

Since tunneling work for the Shinjuku Line had just begun, the prototype set was delivered at Toei's Shimura depot, where it was to be used on test-runs on the Mita Line, and hence was temporarily fitted with 1067mm gauge bogeys instead of the 1372mm ones for the Shinjuku Line. Upon it's arrival on the Mita Line, the prototype 10-000 Series set was fitted with yet another brand-new fetaure - ATO - wich was planned to be implemented on the Shinjuku Line (but later cut out from the plans due to cost reasons) - for adequated testing a section of the Mita Line had already been retrofitted with it.

Seven years later, in 1978, construction of the first section of the Shinjuku Line, from Higashi-Ojima to Iwamotocho, had been completed and was ready to open. Thus, full production of the 10-000 Series started right away, however several modifications were made to the prototype design to simplify, expedite and lower construction costs: the passenger information displays were removed, as was air-conditioning, altough in the case of the latter, the trains were built already predisposed to eventually recieve it at a later date. Modifications weren't only "removals" - several "additions" were also made, most strikingly the front design: the flat, unassuming stainless steel front of the prototype set was changed for a very modern (and distinctively "70s-style") white FRP front mask.
Eight 6-car set of the full-production version of the 10-000 Series were ordered by Toei. Built by Tokyu Car Corporation, all eight sets were delivered in time for the opening of the first section of the Shinjuku Line, on the 21st of December 1978.
These eight were soon joined in revenue services by the prototype set, wich had been removed from the Mita Line, fitted with 1372mm bogeys, adapted to full-production standards (albeit retaining it's "flat front" design) and lenghtened to six cars.

After the opening of the first section, works contiued rapidly, and on the 16th of March 1980 the second section of the Shinjuku Line opened, reaching it's namesake Shinjuku Station and connecting (and commencing trough-services) with the Keio Line. For the opening of this section, a second batch of 10-000 Series trains was delivered: nine 6-car sets built by Nippon Sharyo, wich were essentially identical to the 1st batch ones delivered a few years earlier.

In 1983 the Shinjuku Line extended eastwards for the first time since it's opening, exending from Higashi-Ojima to Funabori with a bridge across the Arakawa River, and three years later, the line was extended again, reaching Shiozaki on the 14th of September 1986. For this latter extension, a 4th batch of 10-000 Series trains was delivered. This time, the design was considerably updated and several changes were made, primarily the bodyshell was changed from a semi-stainless-steel construction to a full stainless-steel one, the 4-section windows were changed to more modern square ones.
Furthemore, unlike the previous batches, the two 4th batch trains, manufactured by Kinki Sharyo, were delivered as 8-car sets to cope with the increasing rideship of the line, and fitted with air-conditioning directly from the factory.
With the entrance in service of the 4th batch, Toei started a general re-arrangment of all previous 10-000 Series trains, including the retrofitting of air-conditioning to all cars and the lenghtening of all sets from six to eight cars with the addition of two newly-built intermediate cars based on the 4th batch (the so-called 5th batch, built by Kawasaki Heavy Industries).
This process was rather quick, being completed in the late 1980s, and involved the prototype set as well, wich recieved an additional modification: the removal of the "case" (derived from the 6000 Series' one) around the headlights in 1987.
In 1989 the final Shinjuku Line extension opened, reaching the current terminus of Moto-Yawata. For this extension, an additional 10-000 Series set was delivered, classified as the 6th batch and built by Kinki Sharyo, identical to the earlier 4th batch trains.

1992 saw the delivery of yet one more batch of the 10-000 Series: two 8-car sets built by Kinki Sharyo to increae the capacity of the Shinjuku Line. Since it had been nearly 15 years since the introduction of the original full-production 10-000 Series trains, the 7th batch was considerably upgraded in it's fetaures, among other thing being fitted with an early-type LED destination indicator (derived from the Asakusa Line's 5300 Series, introduced one year earlier) and a front skirt. The overall design however remained nearly unchanged from the one of the 1980s 4th and 6th batches. The final distinctive fetaure was that these trains were fitted from the start with the brand new Tokyo Metropolitan Government "Gingko Leaf" logo on the front, something wich was quickly applied to the older batches as well.

Finally, the very last batch of the 10-000 Series was delivered in 1997. This time, yet again two more 8-car sets to increase the capacity of the line (and to provide more available rolling stock for trough-services), however this time around the original 1970s design (now nearly 20 years old) was considerably modified and modernized. Built by Alna Koki (a subsidiary of Hankyu Railway), the two set fetaured a redesigned lightweight stainless steel bodyshell, derived from the one of the Tobu 30000 Series that the company had built a year earlier, and a redesigned front style, giving it a far more modern look.
However, for the sake of maintainance compatibility with the rest of the fleet, most technical equipment remained the same of earlier batches, including the armature chopper control, wich depsite having been modern, innovative and revolutionary at the time of the 10-000 Series prototype introduction, it no longer was by 1997 (26 years later), as the more advanced inverter control (both GTO and IGBT-VVVF) was then already commonplace.

Thus, by the early 2000s, the Toei Shinjuku Line fleet was formed of twenty-seven 8-car sets, built in a 20 years timeframe and split into eight batches plus an older prototype 8-car set.
Unfortunately, by then, the earliest sets were starting to age and deteriorate rapidly, with a replacement being in order, something more or less necessary as well in preparation for the eventual conversion of the Shinjuku Line's signalling system from an analogue ATC to a brand new D-ATC system, in order to increase the capacity and reduce the overcrowding of what had become Tokyo's third most crowded subway line.

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