added March 7, 2004

India

Author: Larry Mullett

A fictional route that has six stations, thirty miles of desert in the middle bordered on each side by a mountain range. There are two stations in the desert, one for a large refinery.

A total route of about 55-60 miles.

homepage: IRFCA Indian Railways Train Simulator

current status: tracks laid, rivers, mountains and the refinery are done; and some buildings are installed. Maybe 40% done
current work: Scenery on each side of mountain ranges needs to be completed, I need some station names, signalling, waiting for Roni's complete Objects Package

additional information:
in the forum section on this site

added January 30, 2004

Indian Objects Database for Route Builders

Author: Ronald Kappel

A collection of objects to place on MSTS routes, including everything Indian from people to animals, cars to houses, railway objects to vegetation.

homepage: http://www.irfca.org/users/ronik/msts/irobjdb/

current status: some categories like people, animals and cars almost finished, others only have few or no objects yet
current work: much more objects, updates to current ones (night/seasonal textures,...)
download of development version (Demo v 0.1): here

additional information:
in other sections on this site

added January 18, 2004

Southern Railways

Author: A.S.Akyilesh Aswin

A route which has four end points from Chennai central to Trivandum and Chennai Egmore to Kaniyakumari with beautiful landscapes really which a traveller can enjoy the recipe of South India.

A total route of about 5000 kms.

homepage: IRFCA Indian Railways Train Simulator

current status: tracks laid, scenery between Egmore and Kaniyakumari 70% done
current work: scenery between Tirunelveli and Nagercoil
tasks to be done: scenery Nagercoil and Kaniyakumari, placing of stations, signalling.

additional information:
in the forum section on this site

added July 13, 2003

A Small Indian Railways World

Author: Ronald Kappel

fictional route using DEM terrain, including real stations from all over India and many different types of routes and gauges, including the Darjeeling and Konkan railways

total route length about 800 km

homepage: http://ronaldus.com/asmallworld/

current status: tracks laid, terrain done
current work: creating custom objects and scenery
tasks to be done: further scenery work, ... some surprises ;-)

additional information (maps, station list):
http://www.irfca.org/users/ronik/msts/asirw/

added May 27, 2003

Narsapur - Bhimavaram Town Route

Author: Hendrik Ploeger

Narsapur - Bhimavaram Town (Andhra Pradesh), ca 35 km. With
extentions to Akividu and Manchili.

homepage: IRFCA Indian Railways Train Simulator

current status: tracks laid, scenery between Narsapur and Pallakol 80% done
current work: scenery between Pallakol and Bhimavaram
tasks to be done: scenery Bhimavaram - Akividu and Bhimavaram - Manchilli,
placing of stations, signalling

additional information:
in the screenshots and forum section on this site

last update May 27, 2003

Indian Railways Metre Gauge Route

Author: Ronald Kappel

This small (about 35 km) fictional route is built to finally provide a route to drive the IR metre gauge stock on (actual gauge still 1.435 mm). It covers several different terrains: starts out in a relatively green valley, then the main part goes through an arid, mountainous area and finally ends up in a tropical scenery at the seaside with a crossing of the sea on a working drawbridge.
It features almost exclusively 3rd party objects, no specific objects will be generated, except for maybe some station signs.

homepage: exclusively on IRFCA Indian Railways Train Simulator

current status: version 1.0 finished
release version: download on this site

additional information:
in the screenshots and forum section on this site

last update May 15, 2003

A Small World - 2000 km Route including (Amritsar -) New Delhi - Mumbai

Author: Ronald Kappel

This route is built to provide a lot of change while driving it by including many different operating railway companies on various continents. It also stands for a world without borders :-)

homepage: http://ronaldus.com/asmallworld/

current status: tracks laid, station and siding markers set, some terrain done
current work: terraforming
tasks to be done: object creation and placement, signal system, download and online activity system
development version: Alpha 1.01, release date: September 2002
download of development version: currently not available until the next version is released

additional information:
route maps: http://ronaldus.com/asmallworld/download/karte.html
route FAQs: http://ronaldus.com/asmallworld/download/FAQ.htm

last update May 15, 2003

A Small World - Indian Railways Rolling Stock

Author: Ronald Kappel

Built in a low-polygon way with photo textures, rolling stock featured until now is:
WDM2, WAP1, WAP4, WAP5, WAM4, WAG7, WCAM1, WCAM2, WCAM3, YDM4 locos, various passenger and freight cars

homepage: http://ronaldus.com/asmallworld/

current status: first versions out
current work: refining, adding details
tasks to be done: custom cabs, custom sounds, more details, animating pantographs
development version: Beta 0.1, release date: December 2002 - May 2003
download of development version: here