Name of Route: Denver & Rio Grande Western Cumbres PassVersion and Release Date: 1.1, July 17, 2002Description: This is a standard gauge version of the route taken by the Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad over Cumbres Pass in southern Colorado and northern New Mexico. It is the route of the modern-day Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad that runs between Antonito, Colorado and Chama, New Mexico. The actual C&TSRR is a 3-foot narrow gauge line, one of the remnants of the D&RGW narrow gauge empire that ruled the Colorado mountains during the gold and silver mining days of the late 1800s. The C&TSRR climbs from Chama (7860 ft) along 4% grades to the summit at Cumbres (10,015 ft) in only 14 miles, then back down to 7888 ft at Antonito, another 49 miles down the track. Sidings are in place at Lobato, Cumbres, Osier, Toltec, and Bighorn, with a cutoff at the Lava Tank (the siding at Sublette has not been installed).Installation Method: Routeriter v.2.7 installme.bat file. Unzip the download folder into the Train Simulator/ROUTES folder and run the installme.bat file. Details in the readme file.Size of Download: 18.9 MBSize of Installed Route: 136 MBFantasy, Prototypical, or Freelance Operations: PrototypicalFreight or Passenger: BothEra or Genre: Narrow Gauge Steam (track is standard gauge MSTS default). Route taken from modern maps, but intent is to create the route as it existed in the 1940’s-1960s when it was a revenue freight and passenger road.Location: Antonito, Colorado to Chama, New Mexico via Toltec Gorge and Cumbres PassLength of Mainline: 63 milesNumber of Branches: 0Number of Sidings: 5 passing sidings, a reversing section at Lava, wyes at Cumbres and Chama (and an effective wye) at AntonitoYards: 2 (Antonito and Chama)Mixture of dual and single track: Single track except for passing sidingsAmount of scenery complete: Vegetation in place along entire route. Antonito and Chama trackside structures about 25% complete. Towns of Antonito and Chama about 10% complete. Highways and dirt roads about 25% complete.FPS Specs: 9-11 FPS, IBM 800 MHz, 255 MB RAM, Intel 82810E Graphics Controller with medium low display settingsActivities provided: Simple freight run from Antonito to Chama, run from Chama to AntonitoNon-Default consists or rolling stock required in activities:
MSTS Rio Grande Southern Trainset (rgstrain.zip) – note that this requires the Empire State Express v. 2.0 (the ESE 2.0 is no longer a freeware item)
MSTS Colorado Narrow Gauge Boxcar Pack 1 (cobox1.zip)
MSTS Rio Grande Southern Wooden Caboose (rgscab.zip)Add-in track sets: NoneTsection.dat file used: Default MSTSPayware or freeware: Freeware. Use of add-ons may require permission from original authorKnown problems:
- Most complaints have been about the difficulties of using the non-default rolling stock.
- Misaligned track in Chama yard
- Tunnel portals invisible at low display settings
- Missing texture files toltec rock.ace, toltec_rock_transfer.ace, sagebrush.ace, sagebrush2.ace, sagebrush3.ace, coaltower.ace. An activity that uses only MSTS default rolling stock has also been included. These files have been uploaded to the Train-Sim.com file library as a separate download (ctsrrfix.zip)Where it can be downloaded: Train-Sim.com file libraryOther Info: A patch is now (9/5/02) being developed to address many of the problems noted above, and will be posted as soon as testing is completeContact: Andy Miller (drgwk36) – cam75@mindspring.com
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