[chripsch]

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File Name: Monson RR
File Submitter: chripsch
File Submitted: 12 Jul 2011
File Category: Routes

Requires MSTS-Bin-patch 1.7.051922 or higher.

Read installation instruction carefully before diving in and installing. Failure to do so will trash your MSTS installation.

From the documentation supplied:

This MSTS-route is based on the Monson Railroad which was operated from 1883 to 1945
between Monson Junction and the city of Monson in Piscatequis County in Maine/USA. It
was built in the gauge of 2 feet which is quite uncommon for the US and just was used in the
state of Maine.
The route had a six mile long mainline which connected the village of Monson with the
standard gauge Bangor & Aroostook railroad at Monson Junction. During its life it owned
4 Forney engines built in 1883 (#1 & #2), 1913 (#3) and 1918 (#4) such as 1 combine, 8
boxcars and 14 flats, a snowplough and some mow-vehicles. Although it had an intense
passenger traffic with 5 trains daily the main purpose of the route was hauling slate from the
famous slate-pits of Monson. Never the less it never proved as a financial success as it was
greatly indepted because of the bonds which had to be issued for its construction. Despite this
the route managed to be the last two-footer in the USA to close down in 1945.
Some of the rolling stock (Engines 3 and 4) can still be seen at the Maine NG museum in
Portland ME, so the Monson RR is living on in a certain way. Also some of the structures of
the route are still existing at their original places.

Enjoy it!

Cheers,

Christian

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[Sandy River Tom]

I haven't read Christian's installation instruction yet,
but did you rename the old tsection38.dat file and substitute
the new tsection.dat file??

[Sandy River Tom]

IIRC tsectionoriginal.dat is the default that comes with MSTS.
It gets renamed as tsectionoriginal.dat when you install XTracks3.2,
which loads a NEW tsection.dat

There should be a "tsection-2foot.dat" file in his download.

Take the tsection.dat file; rename it as tsection-38.dat
Then copy tsection-2foot.dat into the GLOBAL Folder, and rename it tsection.dat

See if that helps.

[atsf37l]

OK, Gang, route working. But how in the name of Micro$oft do you unpack those blasted activities? TSUnpack keep saying it require the Monson RR route with UID Monson. The properly named route is right there! What am I doing wrong? ;)

[atsf37l]

OBTW, where are the consists? ;)

[Deepguinness]

Hello guys,

the route is working fine.

The only thing you have to regard is described in the readme.
You have to rename the GLOBAL folder in your TS installation to f. e. GlobalOLD or GlobalORG.
Then copy the global folder from the Monson ZIP in your TS installation without renaming.
Copy the rolling stock the the trainset folder and install the activities with tsunpack.exe.

And if you want to make ist perfect, then use an extra TS installation.

I hope I could help you.

Greetings
Arnold

[Noisemaker]

I'd also be interested if anyone knows and can instruct using Route-Riter if this could be made into a 'Mini Route' maybe a little more easily. I'm just nervous if I get renaming and moving certain things in MSTS, I'm going to mess up my other routes and all.
Route Riter seems to look easy enough with a few buttons, but I'm not sure what it's looking for and where to put it when it starts asking.