IMPORTANT
NOTE: This is a stand alone route
product and does not include any trainsets
or activities. Trainsets and activities
are available through www.trainsim.com
in the form of their SP Pack 1
and SP Pack 2 products. All trainsets
featured in the images of this page are
those of Diesels West.
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Our
SP West Colton Route is
all about the operations in and around
a huge classification yard. In this case,
SP's West Colton Yard which is one of
the largest on the west coast. Our route
encompasses about 40 square miles and
includes sections of four different Subdivisions.
They are: 1) The SP Alhambra Sub which
starts at West Colton and runs west to
LA. 2) The SP Mojave Sub which starts
at West Colton and runs north over the
Palmdale Cutoff towards Mojave and Bakersfield.
3) The SP Yuma Sub which starts at West
Colton and runs eastward towards Indio
and Yuma. 4) The ATSF San Bernardino Sub
which starts at San Bernardino and runs
south/west towards West Redondo.
And
we also included SP's old Colton Yard
and the Santa Fe A and B Yards in San
Bernardino.
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THE
HOSTLERS ARE KEPT BUSY 24/7 AT WEST COLTONS DIESEL
SERVICE FACILITY
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The
circa is from the late 70's to the mid 90's, and
the track charts we used were dated 1996 which is
the pre merger period before Union Pacific merged
with Southern Pacific, and Burlington Northern merged
with Santa Fe.
And
finally, the entire route is situated next to
the San Gabrial and San Bernardino mountain ranges
to the north and northeast of the area which provides
beautiful vistas and a dramatic backdrop for this
MSTS project.
NOTE:
Due to the constraints within MSTS we were unable
to include every track, bridge, overpass, culvert,
and road that is there in real life. For example,
only the eastbound lanes of I-10 were included
along the SP mainline as the project sits right
in the middle of a highly populated area in southern
California so it just wasn't feasible. However,
with that said, we feel that we did a great job
of giving users a good feel for the area.
Though
we did include seasonal textures for the route,
we did not include SNOW textures since it has
never really snowed much at West Colton. Maybe
once in the last 150 years, and that didn't stay
on the ground very long. However, you will notice
a big difference on the route between Summer and
Winter. Summers are very dry here, hence, there
is allot of dried up vegetation along the route.
In the Winter during the rainy season, its just
the opposite, and we feel we did a nice job duplicating
that for this project.
Its
also worth noting that we did not include scenery
for Kaiser Steel (north of Kaiser) as there is
about 30 feature assets needed to do it right.
However, we did put the tracks in there, and we
will consider doing an add-on in the future that
would complete this area of the route.
THE
WEST COLTON TRIM TOWER LOCATED JUST NORTH OF THE
DIESEL FACILITY
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History
West
Colton was built by Southern Pacific in 1972 at
the junction of the lines west into Los Angeles
and north over the Colton-Palmdale Cutoff (which
opened in 1968) to replace the classification
yard in Los Angeles that was no longer on the
main route between the Sunset Route and the San
Joaquin Valley line. The yard is nearly six miles
long and the recieving tracks can hold 180 car
trains and the classification tracks are between
2200 ft and 3200 ft. long. The departure tracks
can hold approximately 2000 cars. All departures
leave from the east end of the yard, however,
there is a balloon track that can turn trains
west if they are headed in that direction.
The
actual yard location is on the south side of the
Sunset Route main line and on the south side of
I-10, some 45 miles east of Los Angeles. A diesel
locomotive maintenance facility is also located
at West Colton. The large yard is laid out along
the south side of the main track. Beginning at
Sierra Avenue, one sees the receiving yard (where
cars are inspected and checked against wheel reports).
Then, just east of Cedar Avenue the receiving
tracks lead to the hump crest and the hump tower
(administrative offices are also located south
of the hump crest) followed by the classification
bowl tracks which narrow down to pass under Riverside
Avenue. Southwest of the Riverside Avenue overpass
is the locomotive facility and the engineering
headquarters. East of Riverside Avenue are the
departure tracks stretching to Pepper Avenue.
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THE
GATX FACILITY AT THE EAST END OF WEST COLTON WHERE
TANK CARS ARE CLEANED AND SERVICIED
Here
is what we included:
*Route
Manual
CLICK
HERE TO VIEW MANUAL
*Admin
Building
*Hump
Tower
*Trim
Tower
*Pedestrian
Overpass
*MiJack
Overhead Crane
*Custom
SoCal Foilage
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*Diesel
Wash Shed
*Diesel
Sanding and Refueling
Facility
*GATX
Tank Car Servicing Facility
*Old
Colton Tower
*SP
MoW HiRail Crane/Crew Truck
*Custom
Seasonal Textures
*Custom
Night Textures For Realistic
MSTS Night Operations
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*Performance
Notes
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HERE TO SEE NOTES
*Custom
Defect Detectors
CLICK
HERE FOR TECH NOTES
*New
Accurate Switches
*Double
Diamonds
*New
US Vehicles and Trucks
*New
US Target Signals
*Operational
Track Boards
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THE
AUTO TRANSFER FACILITY AT SANTA FES SAN BERNARDINO
"B YARD"
Installation
Note:
To users running Vista or Windows7 in 64bit you
may need to rediredt our installer using the "Change"
button to the (x86) folder that Vista and Windows7
creates on your pc. We don't know why Vista or
Windows 7 does this. The pathway should look like
this;
C:\Program
Files (x86)\Microsoft Games\Train Simulator
TOFC
OPERATIONS AT SANTA FES SAN BERNARDINO "A
YARD"
System
Requirements
Windows
98, ME, 2000, XP, Vista, and Windows7
Microsoft Train Simulator 1.2 (Atari MSTS version
will work as well)
MSTS Bin patch v1.8 or better. (MSTS Bin is available
from MSTSBin/UKTrainSim Click
Here)
1.7
Ghz Pentium-II or equivalent CPU
128Mb
3D Video hardware acceleration or better
Hard
drive space needed 650Mb
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AN EASTBOUND GETS THE HIGHBALL TO PROCEED ACROSS
THE SANTA FE MAINLINE AT COLTON TOWER
Credits
Route
Development:
John Dunbar, Brad Brown, and Chris Boneli
Asset
Development:
Peter Holton, Nigel Apperley, Brad Brown, Chris
Boneli, Richard Scott, and John Greenstone
Special
Contributions:
Scott Steele at Diesels West - www.dieselswest.com
Dale
Miller - Bill Westerhout - Bryce Reynolds
Cathy
Dodds (detector voices) - www.secretquiltdreamz.com
in
loving memory of
Bruce
Bowers (aka The Chief) and Annie (the beagle)
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FREE
ACTIVITIES FOR WEST COLTON
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