Cheyenne 1869 extension

[gtw5812]

I must say.....this is great work, and what we have so far is OUTSTANDING! Running "Smokebox's" locomotives and equipment along here is one of my favorite pastimes! Thank you so much for your hard work and efforts on this....at least from this "old fart"!!

Best Regards,

Galen

[DanSSG]

I have run several double headers where the smoke works just fine. About the only thing I have noticed is that when feeding coal in usually the back loco never turns black. Someone has this figured out.

When I run a quickdrive scenario everything is fine with the smokestacks of both locos. I've noticed this primary in free roam scenarios where it doesn't matter if the two locos are already coupled together or not.

I must say.....this is great work, and what we have so far is OUTSTANDING! Running "Smokebox's" locomotives and equipment along here is one of my favorite pastimes! Thank you so much for your hard work and efforts on this....at least from this "old fart"!!

Thank you Galen

[DanSSG]

We're slowly climbing up the Simpsons Ridge

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[wopflyer]

It's cool how you can still clearly make out the track roadbed in the photo of the real location after all this time.

[gtw5812]

Maybe someone could help me? What do I have to enable to use the "!880's" snow simulation on other routes?

Thanks!

R/
Galen

[DrTrenchcoat]

try assets/SSG/Cheyenne1869 that's what RW_tools is saying

[Gravest2]

I downloaded stage two of this route. I own everything except union pacific 119. There are no tracks and no scenery. All i get is the missing texture. I own the promatory summit route that i bought seperate from 119. How important is the 119 ? If thats not the issue im lost as to what i did wrong installing this route extention. I wanted to run the idaho and omaha on this route.

[mrennie]

I downloaded stage two of this route. I own everything except union pacific 119. There are no tracks and no scenery. All i get is the missing texture. I own the promatory summit route that i bought seperate from 119. How important is the 119 ? If thats not the issue im lost as to what i did wrong installing this route extention. I wanted to run the idaho and omaha on this route.

Promontory Summit is a stand-alone route and doesn't reference any assets that are in the 119/Cheyenne DLC (otherwise you would have needed to own that DLC already in order to be able to see tracks and scenery in Promontory Summit). In fact, even the assets that look similar between the two, such as the tracks, telegraph poles and some buildings, have been improved in the Promontory Summit route, so they're not actually the same in the two routes.

Cheyenne 1869 Extension is based on the short Cheyenne 1869 route included in the UP 119 DLC, so you do need to have that DLC to be able to use the extension.

[Gravest2]

Ok thankyou. I will download the 119 then and give it a whirl

[Gravest2]

New problem with career scenarios. Every time i start a scenario i get track.bin error. How do i resolve this issue?

[mrennie]

New problem with career scenarios. Every time i start a scenario i get track.bin error. How do i resolve this issue?

Go into the scenario editor, select any railroad car so that the 3D double-ended arrow appears above it. Click on that arrow, so that the car flips direction. Press F2 to save the edited scenario. In most cases, that's enough to fix the tracks.bin error.

[Gravest2]

Strange little bug. When i get home here in just a few minutes i will try it. Thank you!

[Chacal]

Just to be clear, it's not the action of reversing a car that solves the problem, it is just a way of making a change in the scenario so that hitting F2 will save the scenario.
Saving the scenario fixes the problem.

[M0T0RM4N]

So there's a track rights question that has been on my mind,

Did Central Pacific engines and rolling stock ever find themselves on Union Pacific tracks, and vice versa, in the real world during the 1860s? Some of the Promontory Summit scenarios I've played suggest that UPRR and CPRR engines would make their final stop at Promontory and then hand off the train there (and not cross onto the other railroads track.) Would anyone be able to clarify on this?

To make a long question short, would CPRR have a presence in Wyoming during this route's time period?

[trainboi1]

Motorm4n,
I know it's been a while since you asked, but the short answer to your short question is no. The CP and UP didn't even formally interchange rolling stock until 1883 due to the strong-armed policy of the Pullman Palace Car Company, which forbade passenger services of Pullman-affiliate roads from interchanging onto roads that used any other sleeping car service. (It is likely that freight started interchanging earlier, but I have not seen evidence that that happened en masse until the 1880s either). Engines from the two companies wouldn't really run through until 1904, when Sparks was founded in order to allow the UP's Oregon Short Line to operate the CP from Ogden to Sparks, and the SP to operate the CP over Donner.
A slight note, also, based on what you've said. Despite how many scenarios are playing it in this game, Promontory was never a transition point. Even before the lines were completed, the US government brokered a deal between the two roads that the line from Promontory to Ogden would be sold to the CP upon completion, allowing the exchange to happen at an existing town. So a westbound train would be originated on the CP at Ogden, and would run through to Toano, NV, where it would have an engine change, meaning that engines like Jupiter or Whirlwind would rarely go over Donner Pass once they had been delivered. Similarly, it would be unlikely (though still more accurate than CP stock) to see 119 and its sisters in Cheyenne, as they were assigned to the UP's Utah Division and based out of Wahsatch (as it was then called). Omaha and Idaho both operated primarily in Nebraska, but Idaho at least would likely have at least climbed Sherman Hill regularly.
Hope all this helps, and don't take it too seriously - we only have so much stock to use here, so it's more important to use what is available than to use nothing at all.