Illinois Central – Route Specification Forum

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DKlemmCharter Member · 1878 postsOct 11, 2002 2:42 AM

• Name of Route: Illinois Central
• Version and Release Date: v1.0 10/09/02
• Description: The rail line modeled runs from Clinton, IL south to Pana, IL. Also included is the line from DuQuoin to Anna Il. The track is as it was in the late 70's just before the IC began selling off some of its branch lines. The major freight hauled is grain although many other industries such as Caterpillar use the IC to send goods. For, Train Simulator we have included a portion of the Old Mainline started in 1851. The IC was the first land grant railroad and at one point, the longest railroad in the US. Abraham Lincoln was a lawyer for the IC before becoming President of the US. A train wreck became famous with a song about it's engineer, Casey Jones. This line connected at Mattoon and Champaign where the line ran between Chicago and New Orleans. By the late 70's passenger service on the IC was gone in this area.
• Installation Method: 10 zips with an install batch file in the first zip that copies all the required objects from the 6 default routes
• Size of Download: v01b – 38mb, v02b – 8mb, v03b – 2mb, v04b – 8mb, v05b – 6mb, v06b – 13mb, v0.7 - 18mb, v0.8 – 5mb, v0.9 - 12mb, v1.0 - 11mb
• Size of Installed Route: 815mb
• Fantasy, Prototypical, or Freelance Operations: Prototypical
• Freight or Passenger: Freight and passenger
• Era or Genre: 1970's to today
• Location: Central and Southern Illinois
• Length of Mainline: 147 miles
• Length of Branches
• Number of Branches
• Number of Sidings: many, 30+
• Number of Yards: 5
• Mixture of Dual and Single Track: 20%
• Level of Trackside Detail: very detailed
• Amount of Scenery Completed: 85 miles 100% rest is being worked on
• FPS Specs, with qualifiers: 17 -35fps on a P4 1.5, nvidia 32meg with sliders maxed. 7- 20fps on PII 400 with voodoo 2 16meg.
• Activities Provided: Explore route only
• Non-Default Consists or Rolling Stock Required in Activities: N/A
• Add-In Track Sets: none
• Tsection.dat file used: Default MSTS
• Payware or Freeware: Freeware
• URL for More Information and Screenshots: http://pages.sbcglobal.net/msts-ic/pages/routeprogress.html
• Known Problems: On my PII machine, the area south of Clinton locked up MSTS
• Where it can be downloaded: Train-sim
David Klemm & Trouble Pryor

David Klemm
Illinos & St Louis Divisions
IC Version 1.0 uploaded

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