Ah, the days when I used to play MSTS
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Ah, the days when I used to play MSTS
I haven't played MSTS since early 2011, since Windows 7 won't run it properly (I've tried the 'compatibility mode", which hasn't fixed it on either of the computers I've had). I have Rail Simulator Train Simulator 2012 (updating to 2013 as I type) on this computer but seldom use it, since I don't have as much free time plus I don't like it as much.
MSTS was fun, especially the large amount of user-created free expansion content available for it.
Here is my WSOR passenger train. The coaches are actually re-skins of British designs. The F-unit came with the default GP38 cab and sounds, but I configured it to have the F-unit cab and sounds from the Maple Leaf Tracks Royal Canadian Pacific set.
I did a freelance scenario where a shortline had taken over the Kalispell branch on the default Marias Pass route and operated it using a hodgepodge of Geeps, including an ex-WSOR GP35, ex-CP GP9R, and ex-BNSF GP38-2 (default).
MSTS was fun, especially the large amount of user-created free expansion content available for it.
Here is my WSOR passenger train. The coaches are actually re-skins of British designs. The F-unit came with the default GP38 cab and sounds, but I configured it to have the F-unit cab and sounds from the Maple Leaf Tracks Royal Canadian Pacific set.
I did a freelance scenario where a shortline had taken over the Kalispell branch on the default Marias Pass route and operated it using a hodgepodge of Geeps, including an ex-WSOR GP35, ex-CP GP9R, and ex-BNSF GP38-2 (default).
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Re: Ah, the days when I used to play MSTS
One of the expansion routes I had was the ATSF Howard Branch. In reality, this line has been abandoned and gone since 1975, but I set it up as if the track had merely lain dormant/out of service and was rescued by a shortline. The shortline started out leasing a couple old BNSF switchers (assuming the adjoining ex-ATSF lines had been passed along to BNSF) and of course a GP38-2.
Any signalized crossings along the line were depicted with various types of MSCo wigwags, including lower quadrant (cantilever), peach basket, and ATSF style short cantilever.
Any signalized crossings along the line were depicted with various types of MSCo wigwags, including lower quadrant (cantilever), peach basket, and ATSF style short cantilever.
Badgerland Rail Videos: https://www.youtube.com/@BadgerlandRailVideos
Rail photos: http://andyws.rrpicturearchives.net
Rail photos: http://andyws.rrpicturearchives.net
Re: Ah, the days when I used to play MSTS
Another route that I had depicted a segment of the ex-CNW line northwest of Madison, WI, today's WSOR Reedsburg Subdivision. I usually operated that with late-1990s/early-2000s style WSOR equipment. Some different types of crossing signals were depicted including 2 different styles of cantilever.
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Rail photos: http://andyws.rrpicturearchives.net
Re: Ah, the days when I used to play MSTS
Another train I operated on that line was a ballast train with run-through UP power and Herzog cars from the quarry at Rock Springs. The power consist is typical for the late 90s through mid-2000s when the SD40-2s started to be phased out. This was a prototypical operation until a couple of years ago when the quarry shut down.
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Rail photos: http://andyws.rrpicturearchives.net
Rail photos: http://andyws.rrpicturearchives.net
Re: Ah, the days when I used to play MSTS
I also depicted the line in the C&NW era:
In one of the "freelance" scenarios I ran on that route, WSOR's 25th Anniversary unit combines with a then brand-new CP ES44AC to power a passenger excursion with CP and WSOR equipment. The CP connects to the WSOR at Madison via a branch line from Portage:
In a similar scenario, CP's Royal Hudson 2816 pulled an excursion on the line:
The F-unit was set out at the Mid-Continent Railway Museum in North Freedom to be a temporary exhibit:
In one of the "freelance" scenarios I ran on that route, WSOR's 25th Anniversary unit combines with a then brand-new CP ES44AC to power a passenger excursion with CP and WSOR equipment. The CP connects to the WSOR at Madison via a branch line from Portage:
In a similar scenario, CP's Royal Hudson 2816 pulled an excursion on the line:
The F-unit was set out at the Mid-Continent Railway Museum in North Freedom to be a temporary exhibit:
Badgerland Rail Videos: https://www.youtube.com/@BadgerlandRailVideos
Rail photos: http://andyws.rrpicturearchives.net
Rail photos: http://andyws.rrpicturearchives.net
Re: Ah, the days when I used to play MSTS
Nice PhotosPaulSP wrote:Nice shots Andy.
I recently just got out of MSTS, for awhile I was really into it (made my own shortline and crossings)
Heres some shots I took some time ago of my MSTS stuff.
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