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Name of Route - Lehigh ValleyVersion and Release Date - V1.0, 29. January 2003Description
The route rebuilds the railroads in the Lehigh Valley area of Pennsylvania between Catasauqua, PA, and Jim Thorpe, PA, and a good part of the Pennsylvania cement belt. Tracks of 8 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) Installation Method
Download zip files and extract them to the "routes" folder. After unzipping run "install.bat"Size of Download
4 zip files with 30 to 40 MBSize of Installed Route
about 300MBFantasy, Prototypical, or Freelance Operations
PrototypicalFreight or Passenger
Mainly freight, some passengerEra 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 Mainline
55 mlsLength of Branches
75 mlsNumber of Branches
manyNumber of Sidings
too many to countNumber of Yards
2 huge yards, more than ten smaller onesMixture of Dual and Single Track
3/4 of the main line is double or triple trackedLevel of Trackside Detail
high, but only partly completedAmount of Scenery Completed
some areas are almost completed, others still to be done, over all about 1/4 of the scenery is completedFPS Specs, with qualifiers
between 15 and 20 fps in highly detailed areas with all sets at maximum (Pentium 4 with Nvidia Geforce 4 Ti 4200 and 256 MB RAM) Activities Provided
only a dummy together with the routeNon-Default Consists or Rolling Stock Required in Activities
n/aAdd-In Track Sets: Xtracks required, compatible with v3.2 or later
Xtracks 3.3 or higher is requiredTsection.dat file used: Standardized Tsection.dat, release 00009 or later is requiredFreewareURL for More Information and Screenshots
www.geocities.com/wmueller28/msts.htmlKnown Problems
none so farWhere it can be downloaded
www.train-sim.com

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