Lehigh Valley V2 – Route Specification Forum

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werner001Charter Member · 224 postsDec 23, 2003 3:12 AM

Name of Route:
Lehigh ValleyVersion and Release Date:
Version 2, 12/21/2003Description:
The railroads in the Lehigh Valley area of Pennsylvania between Bethlehem, PA, and Jim Thorpe, PA, and a good part of the Pennsylvania cement belt. Tracks of 9 different railroads are contained in the route (Lehigh Valley; Jersey Central; Lehigh and New England; Delaware, Lackawanna and Western; Northampton and Bath; Ironton; Reading; Chestnut Ridge; Philadelphia, Bethlehem and New England)
Installation Method:
XTracks V3.8 and New Roads V3.0 must be installed. Unzip downloads like described in the readme file, run installme.bat. Follow the instructions provided with the downloadSize of Download:
7 files, each about 28MBSize of Installed Route:
597MBFantasy, Prototypical, or Freelance Operations:
PrototypicalFreight or Passenger:
Both, but mainly freightEra or Genre:
1960s to 1980s, with some concessions: most abandonments before 1980 have not been reflected in the route to offer more possibilitiesLocation:
The Lehigh Valley: Lehigh, Northampton, and Carbon counties of PennsylvaniaLength of lines:
Central of New Jersey: 40 mls
Lehigh Valley: 42 mls
Reading: 5 mls
Lehigh and New England: 60 mls
Northampton and Bath: 7 mls
Chestnut Ridge: 5 mls
Ironton: 5 mls
Delaware, Lackawanna & Western: 4 mls
Philadelphia, Bethlehem, & New England: 5 mlsNumber of Sidings:
hundredsNumber of Yards:
Three large classification yards
more than 20 smaller yardsMixture of Dual and Single Track:
75 mls with two or more tracksLevel of Trackside Detail:
highly detailed, but not yet everywhereAmount of Scenery Completed:
75%FPS Specs, with qualifiers:
between 12 and 17 fps in highly detailed areas with all sets at maximum (Pentium 4 with Nvidia Geforce 4 Ti 4200 and 256 MB RAM) Activities Provided:
none,only a dummyNon-Default Consists or Rolling Stock Required in Activities:
n/aAdd-In Track Sets:
Xtracks required v3.2 or later, New Roads V3.0Tsection.dat file used:
Standardized Tsection.dat build 21 Payware or Freeware:
FreewareKnown Problems:
noneWhere it can be downloaded:
www.train-sim.comWerner Mueller
wernermsts@aol.com

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