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Fred Barbieri's F1 IND Subway Line, continued

Downloading and Installing

Downloading and installing is somewhat lengthy, even with broadband. You will need the route, dependent rolling stock and a few other things like Xtracks and NewRoads. All are available at train-sim.com for free. My advice is to download the route, then carefully follow the instructions laid out in the readme file in the Release Documents folder. It's a careful, detailed process, but one that pays off big time. You should have no difficulty following the instructions, which are clear and well laid out.

Just to give an idea of what you'll need, I've listed the dependencies:

Rolling Stock

• IRT Lo-V Early Steinway Railcars - Download "irtlovem.zip" "MSTS IRT Lo-V Early Model Railcars"
• Download includes 6 car consist required for activities
• IRT R-22 Grimey Railcars - Download "irt_r22g.zip" "MSTS IRT R-22 Grimey Railcars"
• IRT Lo-V Railcars - Download "irtlovwm.zip" "MSTS IRT Lo-V Railcars"
• IND R-4 Railcars - Download "R4IND.zip" "MSTS New York City Independent Subway R4 Railcars"
• IND R-9 Railcars - Download "R9IND.zip" "MSTS New York City Independent Subway R9 Railcars"
• MTA 5301 Subway Cars - Download "MTA_5300.zip" "MSTS MTA 5301 Subway Cars"
• F1 IND download includes consist files needed for activities.
• F1 IND download also includes trainsets for the wagons which make up work train consists.

Track Sets

• xtracks.zip "MSTS Xtracks V. 3.11 Standardized Edition" or any later version
• newroads.zip "MSTS Newroads v2.3 Auto-installer" or any later version
• Tsection.dat file used: Download the following from http://www.train-sim.com/ file library
• tsection.zip "MSTS Standardized\Global\Tsection.dat" File Build 00025 or later

Fred has just released two minor fixes at train-sim.org:

    Activity And Route Fix--F1 IND

and Frederick Dreany has released a texture fix for the R-4 and R-9 cars:

    R4 And R9IND Texture Fixf

For installing downloaded activities, you will need tsunpack.zip from train-sim.com.

Activities

Activities can make a route come alive, and do so with the F1 IND. The route comes with 17 activities, 4 of which are exploratory and require nothing of the operator except to start the train and set the throttle to 50%. I've summarized them all below. So far I've tried about a third of the activities and enjoyed them immensely. Joe Korner, who provided assistance with the activities, has posted an additional activity, which I've included in the list. All activities are considered easy.

Explore IND1

    Route: 205th Street Yard in Bronx to 207th Street Yard in Manhattan; tour of system

    Train: 5-car R-4

    Distance: 40 miles

    Stops: None

    Time: 45-50 minutes

Explore IND2

    Route: West 4th Street in Manhattan to Smith Street Yard in Brooklyn

    Train: 5-car R-9

    Distance: 7 miles

    Stops: None

    Time: 10-12 minutes

Explore IRT1

    Route: 205th Street Yard in Bronx to Smith Street Yard in Brooklyn

    Train: 3-car Early Steinway

    Distance: 18 miles

    Stops: None

    Time: 25 minutes

Explore IRT2

    Route: Smith Street Yard in Brooklyn to Pelham Bay

    Train: 3-car Early Steinway

    Distance: 17 miles

    Stops: None

    Time: 25 minutes

IND-207th to 205th (by Joe Korman)

    Route: 207th Street in Upper Manhattan to 205th Street in Bronx

    Train:

    Distance:

    Stops:

    Time:

    Route: 145th Street in Manhattan to 125th Street in Manhattan

    Train: 5-car

    Distance:

    Stops:

    Time:

IND-8th Ave. Local

    Route: 14th Street in Manhattan to 174th Street underground yard in Manhattan

    Train: 9-car R-4

    Distance: 8.6 miles

    Stops: 20

    Time: 30 minutes

IND-145th St. to Smith St. Yard

    Route: 145th Street in Manhattan to Smith STreet Yard in Brooklyn

    Train: 9-car R-4

    Distance: 15 miles

    Stops: 17

    Time: 38 minutes

IND-205th St. to 207th St.

    Route: 205th Street in Bronx to 207th Street in Manhattan

    Train: 9-car R-4

    Distance: 38 miles

    Stops: 47

    Time: 1 hour 37 minutes

IND 205th St. to Park Slope

    Route: 205th Street in Bronx to Park Slope Yard

    Train: 9-car R-4

    Distance: 25 miles

    Stops: 26

    Time: 52 minutes

IND Smith St. Yard to 207th St.

    Route: Smith Street Yard in Brooklyn to 207th Street in Manhattan

    Train: 9-car R-4

    Distance: 20 miles

    Stops: 19

    Time: 52 milutes

IND-Move Work Train to 207th St.

    Route: 135th Street in Manhattan to 207th Street yard in Manhattan

    Train: Low-V Flivver, 2 gondolas and 1 flatcar

    Distance: 5.1 miles

    Stops: None

    Time: 15 minutes

IRT-205th St. Yard to 88th St.

    Route: 205th Street Yard in Bronx to 88th Street in Manhattan

    Train: 6-car early Steinway

    Distance: 5 miles

    Stops: 7

    Time: 15 minutes

IRT Night Run - Pelham Bay Pk. to Smith St. Yd.

    Route: Pelham Bay Park to Smith Street Yard in Brooklyn

    Train: 4-car MTA 5300

    Distance: 17.5 miles

    Stops: 33

    Time: 55-60 minutes

IRT Night Run - Smith St to 88th St

    Route: Smith Street in Brooklyn to 88th Street in Manhattan

    Train: 3-car early Steinway

    Distance: 14 miles

    Stops: 28

    Time: 60 minutes

IRT-Kingston Ave. to Pelham Bay Pk.

    Route: Kingston Avenue to Pelham Bay Park

    Train: 6-car early Steinway

    Distance: 10.6 miles

    Stops: 26

    Time: 37 minutes

IRT-Queens Plaza to 86th St.

    Route: Queens Park Plaza in Queens to 86th Street in Manhattan

    Train: 10-car early Steinway

    Distance: 14 miles

    Stops: 14

    Time: 25 minutes

IRT-Round Robin (by Joe Korman, not included in route file)

    Route: Smith Street Yard in Brooklyn to Pelham Bay Park and return

    Train: 6-car R-22 Grimey

    Distance:

    Stops:

    Time:

Other Rolling Stock

There are additional rapid transit cars available at train-sim.com that will run on this route. I've included just the NY cars here.

• IRT R-22 Silver Railcars (irt_r22s.zip)
• IRT R-29 Railcars (irt_r29.zip)

Other Routes By Fred Barbieri

After I explored the F1 IND, I discovered Fred had created two earlier NYCTA subway routes. These are also at train-sim.com.

• F1 IRT v1.0 - NYC subway/elevated route incorporating the elements of the IRT Lexington Avenue and Broadway Lines. The route is actually three routes in one. It has an East Side Line, a West Side Line and a Light Rail Line.
• F1 Transit v1.0 - NYC Subway/Elevated freelance route incorporating the elements of the IRT Lexington Avenue and Broadway Lines, the first subway built in New York in 1904. The route has a main 4 track line with express and local uptown/ downtown service fed by 5 branch lines, portions of which are elevated or run on the surface.
  

Further Study

Al

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