Hi,As I promised you some days ago, you can find below a short summary of the original activities included in the Vysocina route package. It will be perhaps useful for those among you who didn't yet try theses activities because they were written in czech. Or perhaps may incite some others to download this superb route if they were not still aware of its existence.I posted this topic yesterday on the UKTS forum, and thought put only here a link with the subject (advantage : on the UKTS forum each screens can be displayed as a small thumbnail that if clicked on shows the large pic), but I had some troubles with the screens. So, I start again on the Train-Sim.com forum
In fact, I wished to adapt these activities while translating, as I did for La Mure activities. So, I asked Milan Matejka, one of the authors, for the permission But obviouly there was a isunderstanding, for he answered me he was very busy and had not enough time left to realize activities in english
Therefore, you ought to content yourselves with this summary, which, in my opinion, is enough sufficient to run these activities. They are basically very simple and nothing unexpected occurs during the game. There are neither messages. Nevertheless, two activities are classified difficult by the authors, what I gently contest. The " difficulty " resides in the fact that the player's train is preceded by an AI Train which runs in the same direction. In consequence, signals constantly turn to the red and it is necessary to wait untill the way become free. .
In some of the activities I realized, I put too an AI train before the player's train but just just for a dozen of minutes. When this process is used for a too long while, it becomes tiring. In the two activities in question it increases the duration to about two hours ! Warned you before.
Activities are presented in the order where they appear in Train Simulator and with the same name. Each sreen has been shot while playing the descrbed activity. Be aware that the announced duration time reveals often to be not realistic. There will be varied traffic coming in front of you, good opportunity to have a look on czech rolling stock.
Some words you will often see:
Vychod: east Zapad: west Vlak: train First of all, a map of this (fictitious) route :
Remember that this route has a main double track electrified line from Lhota (in the east) up to the south of Osec. A branch line (single track, non electrified) expands from this station up to the west
* Nakl_lokal_1 (freight) :
0 h 40 classified easy
You drive a freight local train with the diesel loco CD 770 since Hradec (located in the center of the route) to West Vestec (from Osec, you run along the one track non electrified line). No stops.
* Nakl_lokal_2 (freight) :
0 h 35 classified easy
You follow the same itinerary that previously but on the reverse way on board of the diesel CD 742, hauling a different freight train. No stops * OKD_1_lokal_Hradec (freight) : 
1 h classified easy
You serve an OKD service (a private operator that is chartered to run on the CD network) with two diesels 740 hauling a complete train of ore cars between Vestec (same starting point that the previous activity) Doesn't have any stop until Hradec
* OKD_komplet_vychod_zapad (freight) :
2 h 10 (?!?!?!) classified easy
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With the same train that previously, you run from east to the west. No stops * OS_1_vychod_zapad (passenger) :
1 H 30 classified easy
You are on board of a CD 162 and you drive a local train with stops in all stations between Lhota and Osek where the activity will end ten kilometers farther * OS_1_vychod_zapad (passenger) :
1 H 30 classified easy
Same service that previously and with the same rolling stock, but under winter snow * OS_240_vychod_zapad_noc (passenger) :
1H 20 classified easy
it’s a night local service between Lhota and the south of Osek You drive the CD 240 with four carriages. Stop in all stations. The CD 240 night cab is superb ! * OS_2_zapad_vychod_cast1 (passenger) :
1 H 30 classified easy
You are again on board of the CD 162 which pulls the same local train. You run since the south of Osek until the East of Lhota. Stop in all stations.* OS_2_zapad_vychod_cast2 (passenger) :
1 H 30 classified easy
The service is basically the same that previoulsly but it’s shorter since you leave from Kojetice. Stop in all stations.* OS_2_zapad_vychod_dest_1cast (passenger) : 
0 H 40 classified easy
Same rolling stock and itinerary than the OS_2_zapad_vychod_cast1 but you drive under rain. Stop in all stations. * OS_2_zapad_vychod_dest_2cast (passenger) :
1 H 00 classified easy
Same rolling stock and itinerary than the OS_2_zapad_vychod_cast2 but, also there, it’s raining. Stop in all stations.* OS_lokal_Osek_Vestec (passenger) :
0 H 30 classified easy
You drive a diesel 842 for a local service withs stop in all stations between Ostec and Vesec * OS_lokal_Vestec Osek (passenger) :
0 H 30 classified easy
Same service that previously but in the reverse way. Stop in all stations betwwen Vesec and Ostec* R_1_vychod_zapad (passenger) :
1 H 30 classified easy
On a sunny evening you drive a n express train pulled by a CD 151 coming from the East and heading southbound for Osec. There are only two stops in Kostelec and in Hradec * Nakl_240_silny provoz_noc (freight) :
1 h 45 classified difficult
You run at night along the electrified tracks of the route since Lhota in the East to the south of Osek You drive a CD 240 which pulls a complete train of ore cars. There are no stops but there is an AI train running before you in the same direction
* OS_1_vychod_zapad_silny provoz (passenger) :
1 H 45 classified difficult
You serve a local train which stops in every station betwwen Lohota to the south of Osek. As previous, there is an AI train running before you in the same direction You can download the route from http://zelpage.goo.cz/vlcek/vysocina/
The official site is http://www.home.karneval.cz/00009012/Other rolling stocks from : http://www.rado.msts.cz/
and : http://zelpage.goo.cz/fhavel/trsdown.html
You can dowload here in the library an activity I realized for this route (ebvyact1.zip)Philip Chester has just relased his last guide : Trainsimming Modern Czech and Slovak Railways (part 1)
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